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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 2.

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T. STRINGER: The father of Joseph the husband of Mary, was Jacob. Matt. 1:16. Heli, Luke 3:23, was the father of Mary; and Joseph is here called the son of Heli, because he was the husband of Mary. For it was the custom of the Jews, when the family happened to end with a daughter, to put the name of her husband, instead of hers, into the genealogy. See note to Correspondents in REVIEW No. 25, last volume.
B. B. WARREN: Luke 16:18, 19, introduces two different subjects. Which one do you wish to have examined?
WM. LAWTON: The Methodist elder probably bases his declaration that the first day of the week is called the Sabbath day in the New Testament, on the Greek of Matt. 28:1. But if he will consult Robinson’s lexicon, he will find that Sabbaton after a numeral denoting the day of the week, as in that text, always signifies the whole week. There is nothing in that verse suggesting the idea of the first day of the week except the numeral mian: and Sabbaton after this word, according to both Greenfield and Robinson, signifies the whole week, not any particular day of the week, the particular day being expressed by the numeral. This claim that the first day is called the Sabbath is frequently set up, but it arises either from a perversion or ignorance of the Greek construction.
The other matter you speak of properly pertains to the Publishing Committee, to whom we refer it.
C. R. AUSTIN: We are sorry to say that we find no trace of the letter you speak of, in the Office, and hence conclude it has never been received. We now send the REVIEW to the person you name. There is quite a call for Bro. Andrews’ articles on the Judgment, in pamphlet form; but no action has yet been taken in reference to publishing them.
MRS. A. M. TREADWELL: In looking over your State for the name you enquire for, we find the name of J. L. Adams, at Limestone, Washington Co., and J. M. Adams, at Oskaloosa, Jeff. Co.
JOS. BATES: Bro. Waggoner writes that he cannot, consistently with existing arrangements, meet you at Oakland as you suggest.