Roman Opinion Concerning the Jews and the Sabbath: Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

Seneca included among the other reprehensible superstitions of political theology the sacred institutions of the Hebrews, especially their Sabbaths. The Jews, he said, served no good purpose by resting every seventh day, since they lost nearly a seventh part of their whole lives and must neglect many matters calling for immediate attention.

Augustine, Saint, The City of God, bk. 6, ch. 11.
(Augustine, Saint, The City of God, Books I-VII, Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 6, The Fathers of the Church, A New Translation, vol. 8, trans. Demetrius B. Zema and Gerald G. Walsh, Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1962, p. 335.)

Seneca, among the other superstitions of civil theology, also found fault with the sacred things of the Jews, and especially the sabbaths, affirming that they act uselessly in keeping those seventh days, whereby they lose through idleness about the seventh part of their life, and also many things which demand immediate attention are damaged.

Augustine, Saint, The City of God, bk. 6, ch. 11.
(Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, The Works of Aurelius Augustine: a new translation, ed. Marcus Dods, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1871, vol. 1, The City of God - Volume 1, pp. 255-256.)

Hic inter alias civilis theologiae superstitiones reprehendit etiam sacramenta Iudaeorum et maxime sabbata, inutiliter eos facere adsirmans, quod per illos singulos septem interpositos dies septimam fere partem aetatis suae perdant vacando et multa in tempore urgentia non agendo laedantur.

Augustine, Saint, The City of God, bk. 6, ch. 11.
(Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, De Civitate Dei, Libri XXII, ed. Bernhard Dombart, Lipsiae: In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1877, vol. 1 - Lib. I-XIII, p. 270.)