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Names of the Days of the Week (#163341)
Names of the Days of the Week
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Questions and Answers on Scripture: From the Bible Treasury
Question:
Have
we any scriptural example for calling days of the week after the heathen usage? E.
Answer:
The only N. T. change from the Jewish “first of the week” is the Lord’s day in
Rev. 1:10
10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (Revelation 1:10)
. There is no example, we may presume, of the Gentile Sunday, Monday, &c. How could there be? “Easter” in
Acts 12:4
4
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. (Acts 12:4)
should be “the Passover.”
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