Note 814 — Chapter VIII · THE HEBREW SABBATH
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Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 76; Strabo, Geographica, xvi, 2, 40; Martial, Epigrammata, iv, 4; Justin, xxxvi, 2. Justin speaks of the Sabbath as having been consecrated as a fast day to commemorate a seven days’ fast of the Israelites in the deserts of Arabia.