The Week Between by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 47.

The Week Between

By Editor

No. 669. The Week Between.

PLEASE explain Acts 13:42, last part. The margin reads, "In the week between, or in the Sabbath between." Now did the Jews have the original Sabbath that belonged to the moral law of God and the Gentiles a sabbath of their own which came between the two Jewish Sabbaths, on Sunday?

It simply means "the next Sabbath," the Sabbath of the Bible, the only weekly Sabbath the Bible knows, the seventh day. The Revised Version reads, "They besought that these words might be spoken to them the next Sabbath." Verse 42. "And the next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the Word of God." Verse 44, R. V. Young's translation reads, "the next Sabbath" (verse 42), "the coming Sabbath" (verse 44). The Syriac reads, "the next Sabbath day" (verse 42), "the next Sabbath" (verse 44). And so all other translations of authority so far as we know. The Gentiles knew no Sabbath. Sunday was to them a great holiday, and has been aptly styled "the wild solar holiday of all pagan times."