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NASB | Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit [in special communication with the Holy Spirit and empowered to receive and record the revelation from Jesus Christ] on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, |
Bible Question:
Revelation 1:10 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet," I have often seen the interpretation of the "Lord's Day" in Rev. 1:10 as the first day of the week or Sunday. Is there scripture to support this? I ran a word search of "Lord's Day" and found only this verse in Rev. However, using "Day of the Lord" I found numerous scriptures which indicate the future events of Christ's return. Wouldn't John have been "in the Spirit" on this future date when he witnessed the revelation of these events? Thanks, Jim |
Bible Answer: Jim Estes The actual term "the Lord's Day" is only found in Revelation 1:10, and it was used by the church fathers below and refers to Sunday. The following site contained the following excerpts as quotes, I would be careful about going to this site, I did not believe all that I read there - http: double front slash www.specialtyinterests.net single front slash lords down dash day down dash history.html number sign ioa 4. Didache cir. 125 BC - 50 to 90 AD "But every Lord's day, do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord... Matt. 5:23-24." 2b, or this translation, "On the Lord's day of the Lord come together, break bread and hold Eucharist." Loeb Classical Library - Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 1 pp. 330, 331. Note: The word "day" is a later interpolation by the translator, in the original the word may have been "supper." 5. Bishop Dionysius of Corinth cir. 170 AD wrote to Bishop Sater of Rome: "Today we have passed the Lord's holy day, in which we have read your epistle." Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, Vol. I, p. 204. 6. Bishop Melito of Sardis cir. 170 to 185 AD wrote a treatise "On the Lord's Day" but the word day' is not in the Greek original which is, "o peri tes kuriakes logos ...", where the word "hmara" day is missing and like in Ignatius treaties on the Life of Christ' was more likely "kuriaken zoen", lord's life.' Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, Vol. 1, p. 204. 2c 7. The apogryphical gospel according to Peter cir. 190: "Here we have the clear application of "the Lord's Day" to the first day of the week." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, IX, pp. 27, 29. 8. Pliny's letter to Trajan cir. 107 to 112 In this letter he states that the Christians worship on a certain "fixed day". Loeb Classical Library, Pliny, Vol. II, pp. 402-405. 9. The epistle of Barnabas cir. 135 AD "Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to me, but that is which I have made namely this when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead. And when He had manifested Himself, He assembled unto heaven." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, pp. 146, 147. 10. Justin Martyr 100? to 165 He states that the "day of the sun" is observed by Christians, because of the resurrection. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I, pp. 185, 186. The correct quote of Justin Martyr reads as follows: "And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place, and the memoirs of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets, are read, as long as time permits," etc. Justin Martyr's First Apology, ch. 67. 11. Clement of Alexandria ca. 174 Clement, a teacher of Tatian and Origen the compiler of the 6 column Hexapla Bible, is the first man who unequivocally used the expression "Lord's day" for the first day of the week. 12. Origen 185-255 He, classes the Sabbath with the Preparation day, Passover and Pentecost, as Jewish festivals. Statements include: "It is one of the marks of a perfect Christian to keep the Lord's day." Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV, pp. 285, 366, 601; Vol. IX, pp. 388, 389, 469, 470. Comment: At his time apostasy had taken firm roots but biblically we know the Lord's day is Sabbath. "Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be confessed, suppose that the sun is the God of the Christians, because it is a well-known fact that we pray toward the east, or because we make Sunday a day of festivity. What then? Do you do less than this? Do not many among you, with an affection of sometimes worshipping the heavenly bodies likewise, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise? It is you, at all events, who have even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day Sunday in preference to the preceding day, as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest, and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers." Tertulian, Ad Nations, Book 1, chap. 13; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III. blessings abound, bowler |
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