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n His wisdom and according to His covenant agreement, the Almighty Father Yahuah carefully built a symbolic wall of protection around the ancient Hebrew people. The stones of this great wall were inseparable divine truths, made from His Moral Law; Statutes; Judgments; “full” New Moons; Feast days; and seventh-day Sabbaths. According to their covenant agreement, as long as they remained obedient, they would also remain a sovereign and free people.

If at any time Israel was to willfully break His Laws, creating a weak link in this wall, Yahuah would chasten them by allowing them to go into captivity. Once in captivity, they must succumb to keeping the laws of the ruling nation, along with its calendation system, Sabbaths, and set-apart feast days. In this way, and because of their rebellious disobedience with regard to keeping their covenant agreement, Yahuah caused them to forget His ways.

Rejection of the Messiah

Let it be known that at the epi-center of time, the Jews for the most part, rejected the Messiah. The fear of loss of superior authority by the Sadducees and the Levi’s with regard to their priesthood was only eclipsed by the Rabbinical Pharisees who were gaining a foothold in Israel. 

But it was not until the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple and the discontinuation of the Levitical Priesthood that the Rabbinical Pharisee Jews arose steadily in power and the promotion of the Oral Law in rebellion to the Torah Law, creating chaos within Israel.  Although it was primarily this Jewish group that became so hated by the Romans, by the 4th century A.D., all of Israel was lumped in as a whole, as they had begun to follow these mystics of ancient Babylon, unto their own demise.  They had steadily been losing their bearings as to the TRUTHS  they had once protected.   

Truths Trampled Under Foot

I have no reservations that Yahuah Alahim, in His great wisdom, allowed His truths to be trampled underfoot for nearly 2,000 years.  The purpose of which is sheer genius.  All for the sake of providing a fresh opportunity for the Ruach (Yahuah’s power and presence) alone to guide and ultimately restore His original TRUTHS to those who seek it with all their hearts.  Cutting through all the Rabbinical Pharisees and Roman Catholic Christian dogmas, thru the use of modern technology, and inner fire of desire to know the TRUTH.  His TRUTHS are being restored to prepare a people for His soon return and eternity beyond.  HalleluYAH!!!

And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and Sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I know and from hence forth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the shamayim (heavenly) tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance. For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon, how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. For this reason the years will come upon them when they disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound the days, the sacred with the unclean, and the unclean day with the sacred; for they will go wrong as to the months and Sabbaths and feasts and Jubilees.  Book of Jubilees 6:34-38

Just be aware that whenever there is a long-standing controversy where the desire is to show that something like the New Moon, lunar weeks, and Sabbaths of antiquity was erroneous, leading all to believe the months and weeks have continued as we have them today, you should be smelling something fishy. Most likely, alterations have occurred to the text above. Consider that it was originally written to show the TRUTH of observing the full moon as the original and authentic start of Years and Lunar Months. Be informed that the Romans provided an industry called the Correctories of Rome set up for the purpose of altering the records that would undermine its proprietary Christian Religion or its Calendar. 

The Jews had much the same thing, as there are several changes they have made in the (O.T.) Tanakh.  Such as, the sacred names of the Eternal Father have been overwritten in Hebrew with the name Adoni, a Greek God.  The English counterpart of Adoni is “the LORD,” which has no relation whatever to the Most High’s sacred name of YAHUAH.  The Hebrew term Alahim has been replaced with the word “God” in English. These are just some of the obvious changes.  But the target of Satan and the Beast Power, as illustrated in Daniel 7:25, was the calendar and the Torah Law.

“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, an think to change TIMES and LAWS . . .”  Daniel 7:25

 

“Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”  Titus 1:14

 

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the LAW of YAHUAH is with us?’  Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.  The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken.  Behold, they have rejected the word of YAHUAH; so what wisdom do they have?”  Jeremiah 8:8-9

 

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9

The Plan of Restoration

These divine oracles of truth Yahuah had entrusted to Israel, He likewise desires to entrust them to us today. Again, in His wisdom, they would only be safe within the walls of His covenant agreement.

Israel’s story of disobedience to Yahuah is our story, and their captivity is our captivity. But Yahuah has the plan to restore all things to those who desire and diligently seek the restoration of His original divine covenant. Only to those willing to enter into His covenant will He open the way to discover His long-lost and hidden truths.

Within the pages of antiquity is recorded “the how and why” of the seventh-day Sabbath, as well as His appointed Feast days, Statutes, and Judgments; all became lost and forgotten in time. It is only through our understanding of how they were lost that they can truly be found and restored, along with Yahuah’s other inseparable divine truths.

“I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths, all her appointed feasts,” says Yahuah. Hosea 2:11

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine sanctified things: they have put no difference between the sacred and the profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Ezekiel 22:26.

 

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahuah: Malachi 4:4-5

 

And when the debate is, they shall stand in my (judgment) domes, and shall consider and believe my laws; and they shall keep my commandments in all my solemnities, and they shall hallow my Sabbaths. Ezekiel 44:24 Wycliffe Bible 1378.

 

The present Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. L. E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939. regarding the present Jewish calendar.

 

“The Sabbath depending, in Israel’s nomadic period, upon the observation of the phases of the moon, it could not, accordingly be a fixed day. www.Jewishencyclopedia.com “Sabbath.”

 

The [early] Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moon’s course. Rest Days, p. 254-255 by Hutton Webster.

 

. . . the Jewish festivals being regulated solely by the moon, may fall on any day of the [Roman] week. Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 Edition, Vol. 2, “Pentecost.” 

 

The invention of the continuous week was therefore one of the most significant breakthroughs in human beings’ attempts to break away from being prisoners of nature [and from under God’s law] and create a social world of their own.” The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, Eviator Zerubavel, New York: The Free Press, 1985. p.11.

 

“Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus [Yahusha the Messiah]…was practicing a fixed seven-day week which was the same as the modern fixed [cycling planetary designations] seven-day week. This is extremely doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power and influence of Rome. As long as the Nazarenes held power in Jerusalem, all Roman practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, were held at bay.” Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance

 

1st Century B.C.

In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Csar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to advise him about the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided that the only practical step was to abandon the lunar calendar altogether. Months must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year used, as in the Egyptian calendar. “The Julian Calendar,” Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

These imported [from Babylon] superstitions eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, ‘the star of the Sabbath.’ [and] it was not until the first century of our era, when the planetary week had become an established institution, that the Jewish Sabbath seems always to have corresponded to Saturn’s Day [Saturday]. Rest Days, p.244 by Hutton Webster

1st Century A.D.

How great are the things the enemy did wickedly in the Qodesh (Holy) place. They hated your majestic presence in the midst of your solemnities. They placed their signs and banners on the highest places. . . . They burned with fire your sanctuary; they befouled the tabernacle of your name on earth. The kindred of them said together in their hearts; make we all the “feast days” of Alahim (God) to cease from the earth. Psalms 74:3, 7, 8  Wycliffe Bible, 1378

2nd Century (Emperor Hadrian)

This change from the lunisolar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during the repressive measures which were enacted against ALL Jewish customs . . . during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters…at Jerusalem, this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped the concept of the week and its seventh day. Iranaeus 2nd Century A.D.

 

The [lunar solar] calendar was used by all the original disciples of Yeshua. This original Nazarene lunar-solar calendar was supplanted by a Roman “planetary week” and calendar in 135 C.E. when the ‘Bishops of the Circumcision’ (i.e. legitimate Nazarene successors to Yeshua) were displaced from Jerusalem. This began a three hundred year controversy concerning the true calendar and the correct Sabbath. Shawui Calendar: Ancient Shawui Observance

2nd & 3rd Century (Clement of Alexandria)

“In the years following Clement of Alexandria’s time, an ominous change started to take place that was to radically change the Christian concept of the Sabbath.” Records the Encyclopedia Biblica: “This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom, without paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the lunisolar month) . . . so that the New Moon no longer coincided with the first day of the month. Encyclopedia Biblica, 1903 p. 5290.

 

Then, on page 4179 of the same encyclopedia, we read: “The introduction . . .of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath. . . Encyclopedia Biblica, 1903 p. 4179.

4th Century (Emperor Constantine in A.D. 321-325) A Two-Phase Process

The modern seven-day week came into use during the early imperial period, after the Julian calendar came into effect, apparently stimulated by immigration from the Roman East. For a while it coexisted alongside the old 8-day nundinal cycle, and fasti are known which show both cycles. It was finally given official status by Constantine in 321. Roman Calendar Encyclopedia, Days of the Week

 

Even after Constantine’s edict about Sunday, it took another generation or two for the seven-day week to catch on throughout the empire. The 24-hour system took longer, having to wait until the invention of the mechanical clock in the Middle Ages by monks anxious to observe with precision their canonical hours. Before this, people marked the passage of time during the night by using the stars and during the day either by eyeballing the sun or by listening to public announcements of the time. Calendar, David Ewing Duncan, p. 47, New York, Avon Books, 1998.

 

A Profession Of Faith From The Church Of Constantinople in the year 325 C.E.(A.D.) Under The Emperor Constantine: 

      I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms. unleavened breads & sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all other FEASTS of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspersions, purifications, sanctifications and propitiations and fasts, and NEW MOONS, AND SABBATHS, and superstitions, and hymns and chants and observances and Synagogues, and the food and drink of The Hebrews; in one word, I renounce everything Jewish, EVERY LAW, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with The Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils. Source: Parks, James The Conflict Of The Church And The Synagogue Athenaeum, New York, 1974, p. 397-398.

 

The present [Rabbinical Pharisee] Jewish calendar was fixed [fixed to the unbroken-cycle-of-weeks] in the fourth century. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. L. E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939. Regarding the present Jewish calendar.

Most Saturday Sabbatarians have been taught to believe that the Council of Laodicea, Canon 29 stated:

Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s Day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.  Council of Laodicea, Canon 29

However, the above quote is in error. Karl J. von Hefele, a Catholic bishop, in his book, History of the Councils of the Church from the Original Documents, states that the word “Saturday” (dies Saturni) does not exist either in the Greek or Latin text. Rather, the word “Saturday” was supplied in the English translation instead of the word Sabbato, meaning Sabbath.

Quod non oportet Christianos Judaizere et otiare in Sabbato, sed operari in eodem die. Preferentes autem in veneratione Dominicum Diem si vacre voluerint, ut Christiani hoc faciat; quod si reperti fuerint Judaizere Anathema sint a Christo. Council of Laodicea, Canon 29

At the time the Julian calendar was being enforced upon Christians for religious purposes, no one confused the word Sabbato with dies Saturni. Everyone at that time knew these were names for two different days on two distinctly different calendar systems.

It is only as the facts of history have been forgotten that Saturday has been assumed to be the seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture. Therefore this historic quote from the Council of Laodicea, Canon 29, applies to astro–luni-solar time-keeping only and not to the Gregorian calendar, which keeps the rhythm of the pagan unbroken cycles of weeks.  Astro-luni-solar time-keeping was betrothed to mankind as an oracle of the government of the New Jerusalem. It was the only time system consistently kept by the Hebrew people during their times of loving obedience.

The departure from Yahuah’s true seventh-day Sabbath took place in two phases over a period of approximately 250 years. This process began around the year A.D. 70, and received its final blow when Constantine placed the last nail in the proverbial coffin in A.D. 324.

This change from the lunisolar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during the repressive measures which were enacted against ALL Jewish customs and practices, including the lunar calendar, during the reign of Emperor Titus. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters…at Jerusalem, this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped the concept of the week and its seventh day. Iranaeus 2nd Century A.D.

It is powerfully urged by the believers in a primitive Sabbath, that we find from time immemorial the knowledge of a week of 7 days among all nations — Egyptians, Arabians, Indians.  In a word, all the nations of the East, have in all ages made use of this week of 7 days, for which it is difficult to account without admitting that this knowledge was derived from the common ancestors [Adam and Eve] of the human race. Among all early nations the lunar months were the readiest large divisions of time. . . In order to connect the reckoning by weeks with the lunar month, we find that all ancient nations observed some peculiar solemnities to mark the day of the New Moon. ibid

Accordingly, in the Mosaic law the same thing was also enjoined (Numbers 10:10; 28:11, etc.), though it is worthy of remark that, while particular observances are here enjoined, the idea of celebrating the New Moon in some way is alluded to as if already familiar to them. In other parts of the Bible, we find the Sabbaths and New Moons continually spoken of in conjunction; as (Isaiah 1:13, etc.) the division of time by weeks prevailed all over the East, from the earliest periods among the Assyrians, Arabs, & Egyptians. It was found among the tribes in the interior of Africa….The Peruvians counted their months by the moon . . . without having any particular names for the week days. The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia 1904. Vol. 3, p. 1497.

 

Webster goes on to associate the Babylonian “shabattum” with the Hebrew “Sabbath” as found in the Old Testament:

 

“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith Jehovah.” [Isaiah 66:23]  This remarkable association of the Sabbath with the day of the new moon had been previously noticed by such acute critics as Wellhausen and Robertson Smith, who were unable to offer a satisfactory solution of the problem thus presented. When, however, the cuneiform records disclosed the fact that the Babylonian Shabattum fell on the fifteenth day of the month. . . it became clear that in these Biblical passages we have another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term Shabbath [Sabbath]. As late, then, as the eighth century B.C., popular phraseology retained a lingering trace of the original collocation of the new-moon . . . days as festival occasions characterized by abstinence from secular activities. ibid

 

How long-lived were the old ideas is further illustrated by the provision in Ezekiel’s [Ezekiel 46:1-3] reforming legislation that the inner eastern gate of the new Temple at Jerusalem should be shut during the six working days, but should be opened on the Sabbath and on the new-moon day for the religious assemblage of the people. That the term Shabbath [Sabbath] . . . should have come to be applied to every seventh day of the [lunar] month seems to be quite in accord with both Babylonian and Hebrew usage, which, as we have seen, led the month itself to be called after the new-moon day. Hutton Webster in his book.

 

The Hebrew seven-day week, ending with the Sabbath, did not, of course, originate in Babylonia. The Sabbath day — both Hebrew and Babylonian — originated with the creation week and was transmitted down through the flood to Babylonia where Abraham was born. “The celebration of new-moon and full-moon festivals,” remarks Hutton Webster, “which both Babylonians and Hebrews appear to have derived from a common Semitic antiquity, underwent, in fact, a radically unlike evolution among the two kindred peoples.” “To dissever the week from the lunar month,” continues Webster, “to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit, and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations, which, until evidence to the contrary is found, must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone. Rest Days, p.254.

In the article Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance we find written the following: “Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus…was practicing a fixed seven-day week which was the same as the modern fixed seven-day week. This is extremely doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power and influence of Rome. As long as the Nazarenes held power in Jerusalem, all Roman practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, were held at bay.

Yeshua…observed a Sabbath, but this Sabbath was neither Saturday nor Sunday. The Nazarene Sabbath was a lunar Sabbath . . . of the lunar month. (A lunar month starts on the New Moon). This was standard practice among the Beni–Aumen Nazarene Order and most of the other orthodox Jewish sects of the time…Lunar Sabbath observance is an ancient Semitic custom concurrent and ante-dating the time of Yeshua . . . Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance

The introduction…of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day of the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath… The MacMillan Company, 1899, p. 4179.

In the article Shawui Calendar: Ancient Shawui Observance, we find confirmation of this radical change in Yahuah’s calendar:

The [lunar]…calendar was used by all the original disciples of Yeshua…This original Nazarene lunar-solar calendar was supplanted by a Roman “planetary week” and calendar in 135 C.E. — when the “Bishops of the Circumcision” (i.e. legitimate Nazarene successors to Yeshua) were displaced from Jerusalem. This began a three hundred year controversy concerning the true calendar and correct Sabbath:

 

This [calendar] controversy arose after the exodus of the bishops of the circumcision and has continued until our time” Epiphanius, HE4, 6, 4.

 

“The groundwork for this supplanting of the true calendar”, suggests the ancient historian Iranaeus “began in Rome with a Bishop Sixtus (c.a. 116-c.a.126).”

According to Iranaeus:

“Sixtus was the first to celebrate a Sunday Easter in Rome instead of the traditional Nisan 15 [full moon] date on the lunar calendar. This change from the lunisolar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during the repressive measures which were enacted against ALL Jewish customs and practices, including the lunar calendar, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters…at Jerusalem, this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped the concept of the week and its seventh day.”

Hutton Webster points out that “the early Christians had at first adopted the Jewish [lunar] seven-day week with its numbered weekdays, but by the close of the third century A.D. this began to give way to the planetary week, and in the fourth and fifth centuries the pagan designations became generally accepted in the western half of Christendom. The use of the planetary names by Christians attests to the growing influence of astrological speculations introduced by converts from paganism” Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. P. 220).

It should be noted that the oldest dated Christian inscription to employ a planetary designation belongs to the year 269 A.D. Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, ed. De Rossi, 1861, i, No. 1.

In the article Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance, the author asks these questions —

But what of Gentile Christians? Did this early break-off of true Nazarene[s]…also observe a Sabbath cycle? Early historical records clearly confirm that very early Gentile Christians also kept the same [lunar] Sabbath Calendar as the…Nazarenes. This practice was first changed by [Pope] Sixtus in 126 A.D. and later officially changed by a royal Roman decree from the emperor Constantine. Observance of the Sabbath day was made illegal and observance of a “Sunday” of a fixed week was made mandatory for all except farmers. Previous to this time the Roman Saturday was the first day of the Roman week. The veneration of the Sun in the second century A.D. began to pressure Roman culture to change the first day of their week from Saturnday to Sunday. (Had the Jews been observing this same Roman calendar at this early date, as some maintain, then their seventh day Sabbath would have been on Friday which was the traditional seventh day of this Roman calendar during the first century A.D.). Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance

Hutton Webster adds:

The change from such [lunar] cycles to those unconnected with the lunations would not have involved so abrupt and sudden a departure from the previous system of time reckoning as that from a bipartite division of the lunar month to a week which ran continuously through the months and the years. Rest Days, Hutton Webster.

Easter must be celebrated by all throughout the world on the same Sunday; that this Sunday must follow the fourteenth day of the paschal moon; that that moon was to be accounted the paschal moon whose fourteenth day followed the spring equinox; that some provision should be made, probably by the Church of Alexandria as best skilled in astronomical calculations, for determining the proper date of Easter and communicating it to the rest of the world.  CALENDAR, Bol. II, p. 158

. . .the emperor. . .convened a council of 318 bishops…in the city of Nicaea…They passed certain ecclesiastical canons at the council besides, and at the same time decreed in regard to the Passover that there must be one unanimous concord on the celebration of God’s holy and supremely excellent day. For it was variously observed by people . . .

. . . it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul. … Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Savior a different way.  Eusebius’ Life of Constantine, Book 3 chapter 18

It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. . . Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. . . avoiding all contact with that evil way. . . who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. . . a people so utterly depraved. … Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricites and the murderers of our Lord. … no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews. Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History 1.9

The feast of the resurrection was thenceforth required to be celebrated everywhere on a Sunday, and never on the day of the Jewish Passover, but always after the fourteenth of Nisan, on the Sunday after the first vernal full moon. The leading motive for this regulation was opposition to Judaism, which had dishonored the Passover by the crucifixion of the Lord . . . At Nicaea, therefore, the Roman and Alexandrian usage with respect to Easter triumphed, and the Judaizing practice of the Quartodecimanians, who always celebrated Easter on the fourteenth of Nisan, became thenceforth a heresy. Yet that practice continued in many parts of the East, and in the time of Epiphanius, about A.D. 400, there were many, Quartodecimanians, who, as he says, were orthodox, indeed, in doctrine, but in ritual were addicted to Jewish fables, and built upon the principle: “Cursed is every one who does not keep his Passover on the fourteenth of Nisan.” They kept the day with the Communion and with fasting till three o’clock. ibid

Yet they were divided into several parties among themselves. A peculiar offshoot of the Quartodecimanians was the rigidly ascetic Audians, who likewise held that the Passover must be kept at the very same time (not after the same manner) with the Jews, on the fourteenth of Nisan, and for their authority appealed to their edition of the Apostolic Constitutions. And even in the orthodox church these measures did not secure entire uniformity. For the council of Nicaea, probably from prudence, passed by the question of the Roman and Alexandrian computation of Easter. At least the Acts contain no reference to it. At all events this difference remained: that Rome, afterward as before, fixed the vernal equinox, the terminus a quo of the Easter full moon, on the 18th of March, while Alexandria placed it correctly on the 21st. It thus occurred that the Latin’s, the very year after the Nicene council, and again in the years 330, 333, 340, 341, 343, varied from the Alexandrians in the time of keeping Easter.  Philip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, volume 3, section 79, The Time of the Easter Festival

 

On this account the council of Sardica, as evident in the recently discovered Paschal Epistles of Athanasius, took the Easter question again in hand, and brought about, by mutual concessions, a compromise for the ensuing fifty years, but without permanent result. In 387 the difference of the Egyptian and the Roman Easter amounted to fully five weeks. Later attempts also to adjust the matter were in vain, until the monk Dionysius Exiguus, the author of our Christian [Roman Catholic and later Gregorian] calendar, succeeded in harmonizing the computation of Easter on the basis of the true Alexandrian reckoning; except that the Gallican and British Christians adhered still longer to the old custom, and thus fell into conflict with the Anglo-Saxon [one of the issues addressed at the Synod of Whitby]. The introduction of the improved Gregorian calendar in the Western church in 1582 again produced discrepancy; the Eastern and Russian church adhered to the Julian calendar, and is consequently now about twelve days behind … [the Western Church]. According to the Gregorian calendar, which does not divide the months with astronomical exactness, it sometimes happens that the Paschal full moon is put a couple of hours too early, and the Christian Easter, as was the case in 1825, coincides with the Jewish Passover, against the express order of the council of Nicaea.” Wikipedia Enclyclopedia