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Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses.—There are writers
who have maintained that the Waldenses made a general practice of
observing the seventh-day Sabbath. This concept arose from sources
which in the original Latin describe the Waldenses as keeping the Dies
Dominicalis, or Lord’s day (Sunday), but in which through a practice
which dates from the reformation, the word for “Sunday” has been
translated “Sabbath.”
But there is historical evidence of some observance of the
seventh-day Sabbath among the Waldenses. A report of an inquisition
before whom were brought some Waldenses of Moravia in the middle
of the fifteenth century declares that among the Waldenses “not a few
indeed celebrate the

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