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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.”—Joseph Cullen Ayer, A Source
Book for Ancient Church History (New York: Charles Scribner’s sons,
1913), div. 2, per. 1, ch. 1, sec. 59, g, pp. 284, 285.
The latin original is in the Codex Justiniani (Codex of Justinian), Lib.
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