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the hypothesis is easily tested. The name σεβαστή is often appended in the Papyri to particular days in which both the month and year are given. As we have exact knowledge of the Egyptian reformed calendar (v. p. 52), we can in these cases easily ascertain the week-day. I may take two or three examples from Grenfell and Hunt's Oxyrynchus Papyri, vol. II (v. Index III). Thus we find the following days described as σεβασταί:
| A.D. 41 | Neos Sebastos 20 | = Nov. 16th (Thursday) |
| A.D. 56 | Payni 20 | = June 14th (Monday) |
| A.D. 57 | Germanicus 18 | = May 13th (Friday) |
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Early Christian view of the Sabbath (v. p. 107)
For what seems to me a clear as well as learned discussion of the subject, I refer my readers to Hussey's Bampton Lectures (1860) on 'Sunday.'
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY W LEWIS, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
