[B-Greek] Rev.1:10

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Mon Dec 1 15:06:42 EST 2003


In a message dated 12/1/2003 9:23:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
rosangelalira at terra.com.br writes:
What I've found about this was that although  the prevailing interpretation
equates the expression "Lord's day" with Sunday, this equation is based not
on internal evidences of the book of Revelation but on three second-century
patristic testimonies, namely, Didache 14:1, Ignatius' Epistle to the
Magnesians 9:1 and the Gospel of Peter 35 and 50.
In the letter to the Magnesians the Greek text (ch. 9) reads KATA KURIAKHN
ZOHN ZWNTES, "living according to the Lord's life." The extant Latin text (a
thirteenth-century translation) has no word here for "life". Some scholars
translate the Greek "living a life according to the Lord's [day]" on the
assumption that a later usage of KURIAKH as a noun meaning "Lord's day" was
valid already in Ignatius' time, which is disputable.

You have omitted something crucial to the understanding to the Magnesians 
passage and misunderstood something else.  It reads

MHKETI SABBATIZONTES, ALLA KATA KURIAKHN ZWNTES

Moreover, ZWNTES is a masc. pl NOM. part. and thus could not be "the Lord's 
life."  The correct (or a correct reading) would be 

"No longer observing the Sabbath [Sabbathizing?] but living according to the 
Lord's Day.

gfsomsel



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