Sabbath in Christianity

Sabbath In Christianity

For other uses, see Biblical Sabbath, Sabbath in seventh-day churches, Shabbat, High Sabbath, and Sabbath year.

In Christianity, Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or religious observance, derived from Biblical Sabbath (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎, shabbâth, Hebrew word #7676 in Strong's, meaning intensive "repose").

By the 2nd century AD, the observance of a corporate day of worship on the first day (Sunday, or Saturday night) had become commonplace, as attested in the patristic writings. For such worshipers the term "Lord's Day" came to mean the first day or Sunday. From the 4th century onwards, Sunday worship has also taken on the observance of Sunday rest in some Christian traditions, such as the Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries. Among these "first-day Sabbatarians", Sunday worship and/or rest eventually became synonymous with a first-day "Christian Sabbath".

Seventh-day Sabbath observance, i.e., resting from hard labor from sunset to sunset on the seventh day (from Friday to Saturday), similarly to Shabbat in Judaism, is practiced by Seventh-day Sabbatarians,

Non-Sabbatarianism, the principle of Christian liberty from being bound to physical Sabbath observance, has significant historical support. Non-Sabbatarians focus on Sabbath's typological meaning, i.e., its representation of present or future spiritual rest in Christ.