Excerpt from The Epistle of Barnabus
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<p>Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. </p>
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From The <i>Epistle of Barnabas</i>, written at the close of the first century; (XV; <i>The Ante-Nicene Fathers</i> [reprint; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973], 1:147).</p>
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