Both Sides by Wm. C. Gage

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1864

Both Sides.

By Wm. C. Gage

BRO. WHITE: I have been very much pleased with Both Sides, and especially with the last number received, (No. 1 present volume,) in which "Greek meets Greek." The general tendency of the introduction of the languages into a discussion, is to mystify and perplex the minds of the unlearned; but I think the matter is so fairly and simply dealt with in this instance that no one could object to its introduction.

But there is one point which seems to me to have been overlooked, as indeed there must be many where such a multitude are laid open, and I would like to call attention to it; viz., a practical application of the Elder's rendering to some other of his nine texts. If "the first day of the week" in Matt. xxviii, 1, means "the first of the Sabbaths" or, as the Elder construes it, "the first of the new series of Sabbaths," then the very same phrase in Acts xx, 7, must mean the very same thing, unless there is some "reason unknown to me;" and thus we find the first of Eld. P.'s "new series" over in Paul's time, A. D. 60.

Perhaps they did not get a good beginning and so commenced again after a trial of twenty or thirty years. We cannot wonder at it; for it must have been hard to establish an institution without precept or command. This rendering also upsets our s. B.; for what have we to do with a practice commanded only for the "first of the Sabbaths?" 1 Cor. xvi, 2.

"That which proves too much, proves nothing in the question."

WM. C. GAGE.

Manchester, N. H.