Actually the poor is being told to sit at his footstool.... But this passage is talking about personal favoritism then about sitting.
And the guy in the windows could have been one of those tired or weak that sat around the walls of the church like I quoted from Needham.
Neither case talked about chairs/pews and sitting either while Reading of the Word or Singing of the Word or Praying.
And Early Records from Justin of Martyr and others up to the fourteenth century clearly show that churches had no seating.. Even the Eastern Churches still do not have them today... Quote:
Originally Posted by victorbravo  Well it seems pretty clear that sitting occurred in early church practice.
One guy sat in a window, athough he fell out. Act 20:9
And a church was reproved, not for sitting, but for allowing the rich to have the best seats while requiring the poor to either stand or sit in a lowly place. James 2:3 |
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