First Day of the Week by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 11, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 15.

First Day of the Week

By Editor

1801.—First Day of the Week.

Editor of SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Read John 20:1, 19, 26; Acts 20:7-11; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2. Please answer. R. Mc.

We have not space in this column to explain all these texts which have reference to the first day of the week. We refer our querist to Apples of Gold Library No. 76, and Bible Student's Library No. 137 (price two cents each), in which all these texts are considered. Will state in brief, in this, that they all refer to one and the same day, with the exception of John 20:26; that in no case is the first day of the week called a sacred day, but every instance of its use indicates that it was merely a secular day; and that of all the meetings which took place on that day, but one was a religious meeting, a farewell meeting of the apostle; that the other meetings showed that the disciples themselves did not believe that Jesus had arisen, and that He met them as they were together in their own common abode.