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fices. Nevertheless, he never thought of abrogating the
Sabbath, nor could he have ventured to do so. Had he
ventured to declare the abolition of that day or to substitute
the Sunday for it, he would have been undoubtedly aban-
doned by his followers, and instantly mobbed and stoned.
But he observed, so to say, the Law of Moses to its title.
As we learn from the Jewish historian, Joseph Flavius, and
from Eusebius and others, James the "brother" of Jesus was
a strict Ibionite and the head of the Judaistic Christians who
observed the Law of Moses and the Sabbath with all its
rigors. The Hellenistic Christians gradually substituted
first the "Lord's Day," i.e. the Sunday; but the Eastern
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Sabbath, nor could he have ventured to do so. Had he
ventured to declare the abolition of that day or to substitute
the Sunday for it, he would have been undoubtedly aban-
doned by his followers, and instantly mobbed and stoned.
But he observed, so to say, the Law of Moses to its title.
As we learn from the Jewish historian, Joseph Flavius, and
from Eusebius and others, James the "brother" of Jesus was
a strict Ibionite and the head of the Judaistic Christians who
observed the Law of Moses and the Sabbath with all its
rigors. The Hellenistic Christians gradually substituted
first the "Lord's Day," i.e. the Sunday; but the Eastern
129