Mia ton Sabbaton | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1860

Mia ton Sabbaton.

In a note to one of its correspondents on the phrase in the New Testament which is translated “first day of the week,” as in Matt. xxviii, 1, &c., the Advent Herald remarks, “A translation of ‘mia ton Sabbaton’ might be ‘the first day of the period, measured by Sabbaths, or the first day of the rest period.’ A precise rendering would be, ‘the first day of the Sabbath,’—Sabbath being there used by metonymy for the period measured by the succession of Sabbaths. There can be no question, we imagine, but ‘the first day of the week’ is the precise significance of the original.”