His reforms were embodied in one of the most important works in the Ethiopian literary corpus, the Book of Light. It was not until the reign of the great King Zara Yakob in the middle of the fifteenth century that the matter was definitely settled. Nonetheless history has witnessed bitter disputes arise over the celebration of the Sabbath in the Ethiopian Church, principally between its two great monastic orders. "With what eyes do you regard the Lord's Day, you who have desecrated the Sabbath? Do you know that these two days are related, that if you wrong one of them, you will stumble against the other?" Gregory of Nyssa, who stands in great repute among Ethiopians, argued: Chapter 38 of the Ethiopian Didascalia commands the observance of both the Sabbath and Sunday. The observance of the Jewish Sabbath as well as Sunday is an ancient tradition in the Ethiopian Church.
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