Revelation 1:10

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 6 08:50:31 EDT 2002



David:

I'm embarrassed to say that I am unable to understand
your objection to my earlier post. And I responded to Tony's
concern OFFLIST because I thought he simply misread my post.

I was simply restating what both Robertson and Alford were
arguing, or at least that was my intention.

First of all, I've never met an Adventist so I am clueless
as to what your presuppositions are. But let me see if I can
restate what I was trying to say. (But first, as to the early
Christians meeting on the first day of the week, Sunday, I do NOT
believe that they met for worship on Sundays... by worship I mean
basically the teaching of the word. They did meet before sunrise
on Sundays as a time when the various house-churches got together
to fellowship. But these Sunday meetings were not the designated
times for study/worship... that was done daily. On Sundays, as
far as I can tell, the various house-churches met to celebrate
the resurrection, for unity and fellowship, and later would meet
at various houses for meals.)

Concerning this:

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>I found your post unusual.  The phrase KURIAKH hHMERA
>is different to TH hHMERA TOU KURIOU within the GNT
>and without.  It is unique in the GNT in Rev 1:10.
-----

What I was trying to say is that the expression
THi hHMERAi TOU KURIOU is used to reference the
eschatological Day of the Lord by both Peter and Paul,
and I don't think John uses this expression.

I was also trying to say that the expression
THi KURIAKHi hHMERAi is nothing more than a basic
phrase denoting Sunday, the first day of the week. But
NOT the day of worship, as we use the term today.

I was trying to say that the phrase THi KURIAKHi hHMERAi
is not a strikingly different way of referencing the
eschatological Day of the Lord. It doesn't reference it
at all.

Simply put, the phrase THi KURIAKHi hHMERAi would have been
understood to mean the day the christians celebrated the
resurrection, not the day of worship. The celebrate/festival
was on Sundays, but worship "service" was daily. In fact, I
would be willing to accept that Sunday was the only day of
the week the early christians did NOT worship/study.

I reserve the right to reread this post when I get back. I have
to leave in a hurry this morning.

Now, my thoughts!

Mark Wilson


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