"In the End of the Sabbath"
By Arthur L. Manous
"In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher." Matt. 28:1. See also Mark 16:1, 2. One writer says of this text, "The right translation of Matt. 28:1, and kindred scriptures, gives us the Christian Sabbath, and leaves Saturday-worshippers without a foundation to stand upon." Then he proceeds to give us what he calls a "right translation of Matt. 28:1," as follows: "Now, in the end of the sabbaths at the dawning toward the first day of sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher." Now we can not agree with this so-called "right translation," for all scholarship is against it, as will appear by reading a few other translations of the phrase in question. "Now late on the Sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week."—American Revised Version. "Now after the Sabbath, as it was dawning to the first day of the week."—Emphatic Diaglott. "And after the Sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day of the week."—Sawyer's Translation. "Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week."—Wesley's Translation. "Sabbath being over, and the first day of the week beginning to dawn."—Campbell, Macknight, and Doddridge's Translation. "After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of the week."—Weymouth's Translation. "After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn."—Twentieth Century New Testament. "And the Sabbath being over, in the dawn of the first day of the week."—Norton's Translation. "And the Sabbath being over, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week."—Noyes's Translation. From the above we judge the so-called "right translation" to be in error, and the assertion a mistake. ARTHUR L. MANOUS.