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Fathers, 2d series, vol. 14, pp. 521-587 (New
York, 1900); Charles J. Hefele, A History of
the Councils of the Church, from the Original
Documents, B. 18, ch. 1, secs. 332, 333; ch. 2,
secs. 345-352 (T. and T. Clark Education,
1896), vol. 5, pp. 260-304, 342-372.
Page 53. The Sunday Law of Constantine.—
The law issued by the Emperor Constantine
on the seventh of March, A.D. 321, regarding
a day of rest from labor, reads thus:
“All judges and city people and the craftsmen
shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun.
Country people, however, may freely attend
to the cultivation of the fields, because it
frequently happens that no other days are
better adapted for planting the grain in the
furrows or the vines in trenches. So that the
advantage given by heavenly providence may
not for the occasion of a short time perish.”—
