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Sebasteis the genitive of sabastos, from sebas, meaning reverential awe, and is a cognate of sebazomai, to worship, and sebasma, an object of worship. So, in the final analysis, and in particular usage, the two words as applied to Christ and Caesar, respectively, were equivalents. And those who believed in Christ as Lord could not acknowledge Caesar as such, often resulting in the severest of persecution for Christians %u2013which they were beginning to suffer in Asia Minor at the time of John%u2019s banishment to the isle of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation at the behest of Christ for the immediate edification and encouragement of the seven churches in the Roman province of Asia (in the western part of Asia Minor, now Turkey).The following excerpts of quotations from decades of the second Christian century will demonstrate the use of \resurrection from the dead, and being a weekly assembly day of early Christians %u2013insteadof being \34:10), when the Lord Jesus Christ returns at the end of time on earth for the universal resurrection and judgment of mankind, as claimed by some in our day.DIDACHE: \late first or early second century A.D.NOTE: The Interpreter%u2019s Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. KQ, p. 152, states this, to us, curious wording \to the sabbath.\Although the expression \common to omit the word day, leaving it to be understood from context, with the adjective \ actually coming to be used as a noun for \the case in the above quotation from the Didache. \or the first day of the week is kuriake. This usage was well established at an early date, for the Christian Latin word for Sunday was dominica, the exact translation ofthe Greek, %u2018Lord%u2019s.%u2019 The word for Sunday in modern Romance languages is derived from this usage %u2013dominica(Italian), domingo(Spanish), and dimanche(French).\IGNATIUS: \also our life arose through him %u2026\110 A.D.BARNABAS: \the dead and when he appeared ascended into heaven\NOTE: If the 40 days of Acts 1:3 were exclusive of resurrection and ascension days, which is possible, then his ascension was also on the same day of the week as his resurrection \(= \3.Christians and the Sabbath after Pentecost(Acts through the Epistles).