Christians, he reported, gathered on the first day of the week, whether they lived in city or countryside, because God created light on the first day of the week, and he brought his Son back from the dead on the first day of the week, too, which was also called “The Eighth Day” or the day of re-creation. “But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead.”9
