Christianity Begins Distancing Itself From the Sabbath
The anti-Jewish sentiments found in the writings of some early church fathers was simultaneously demonstrated in a gradual distancing of Christianity from its Jewish roots. For example, in the middle third century in Syria, the Didascalia Apostolorum ordered Jewish converts to Christianity to give up the Sabbath as part of the Mosaic legislation. A few decades later in Pettau, Victorinus urged his readers to fast on Sabbath in order to avoid any appearance of keeping the Sabbath like the Jews. He even suggested that Christ hated the Sabbath and abolished it.
