Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Chronicles 13:11
There is 1 footnote for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 123, footnote 5 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Apologetic. (HTML)
Ad Nationes. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort. (HTML)
... even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day, in preference to the preceding day as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers. For the Jewish feasts on the Sabbath and “the Purification,” and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps,[2 Chronicles 13:11] and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the “littoral prayers,” all which institutions and practices are of course foreign from your gods. Wherefore, that I may return from this digression, you who reproach us with the sun and Sunday should consider ...