Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Exodus 35:3
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 189, footnote 3 (Image)
Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents
Pseudo-Clementine Literature. (HTML)
The Recognitions of Clement. (HTML)
Book IX. (HTML)
Jewish Customs. (HTML)
... themselves, as I have said, do this, induced to it not by the compulsion of any star, nor by the perfusion of blood, but by the law of their religion; and in whatever part of the world they are, this sign is familiar to them. But also the fact that one name is among them all, wheresoever they are, does this also come through? And also that no child born among them is ever exposed, and that on every seventh day they all rest, wherever they may be, and do not go upon a journey, and do not use fire?[Exodus 35:3] Why is it, then, that no one of the Jews is compelled by to go on a journey, or to build, or to sell or buy anything on that day?