Saturday or Sunday? The History Behind The Seventh Day
- NeorahYah Germaine McGuffie
- Feb 23
- 1 min read

Hillel ll held the office of Nasi, of the Sanhedrin in 4th century AD at the height of the Roman Empire. The religious environment at the time was embroiled in a controversy over how to Reconcile the observance of the biblical Pesach on Abib 14 (which when calculated using the biblical calendar, could fall on any day of the week of the pagan Julian calendar); with the observance of Easter, which the Western Roman Bishops wanted to fall strictly on Sunday, as a Roman Catholic festival. It became a struggle between the solemnity of the Exodus & the later sacrifice of Yahusha, HaMashiach, versus the celebration of the resurrection of Christ, which happened to coincide with the dates for pagan celebrations.
Constantine l, aka Constantine, The Great, worshipped pagan deities, and he saw the...
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