4255 — BREAKING OF BREAD ON MONDAY MORNING
By Editor
Commenting on Acts 20: 7, in your issue of December 9 you say, "There is strong evidence that it was Monday morning before they actually came to the breaking of bread." Is this new teaching? No, it is not new teaching, but the thought intended was not expressed. The sentence as it appeared in the answer to that question should have been eliminated, and the statement should have been made, instead, that the Bible method of reckoning the day is from sunset until sunset, and since the meeting referred to in Acts 20:7 was in the dark part of the day, it occurred on what we now call Saturday night. Furthermore, the text shows that while Paul was with the church preaching, and also engaged in the breaking of bread, the disciples accompanying him were in a ship performing the common labors of travel; and when the light portion of the day arrived, Paul took a short cut across the country to meet them at Assos, as agreed upon. But if the individual desires to claim for the text a thing that is not true, and would seek to have it appear that that meeting occurred on what is now known as Sunday night, the breaking of bread, as is clearly evident by the text, did not occur until Monday morning. Hence no matter what view you take of it, there is absolutely no evidence in this scripture for Sunday sacredness. And the same is true, for that matter, of all other texts of the Bible.