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- From: Doug Jantz <dwjantz AT swbell.net>
- To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Sunday
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:03:42 +0000
Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 Apr 2000 16:38:42 EDT, Robert Brenchley wrote:
>
> Harold Holmyard III writes:
>
> >I do not know if the thread has already covered this point, since I
> remember discussion of the Lord's day, but many fine commentators believe
> that in Rev 1:10 the best interpretation for TNi KURIAKHi hHMERAi is the
> Lord's day as Sunday.
>
> Which commentators, and why? We have ambiguous evidence for 'the first day
> of the week' in Paul, evidence of Sunday meetings in John; if there is
> further evidence of the latter in Revelation, this would begin to establish
> a
> pattern of Sunday observance by 100. I had thought that it began in the
> second half of the Second Century, but I confess that I hadn't really
> looked.
>
> Robert, I checked seven well-known commentators on Revelation, and all
> seven held that "the Lord's Day" in Rev 1:10 referred to Sunday. What
> follows are mainly quotes from some of them.
>
Others asay the same. Charles Talbert, The Apocalypse, gives some helpful
references:
Didache 14.1
Ignatius, Magnesians 9.1
Melito (Eusebius, Church History 4.26.2
Dionysius of Corinth (Eusebius, C.H. 4.23.11
Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 7.12
Tertullian, Chaplet 3
Gospel of Peter 35 and 50
So also comments Jurgen Roloff in his Revelation commentary
Douglas Jantz
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dwjantz AT swbell.net
Religious Studies Program
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-
Re: Sunday,
David C. Hindley, 04/10/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Sunday, Sakari Häkkinen, 04/10/2000
- Re: Sunday, Sakari Häkkinen, 04/10/2000
- Re: Sunday, JMAZHAM, 04/10/2000
- Re: Sunday, Harold R. Holmyard III, 04/11/2000
- Re: Sunday, Jack Kilmon, 04/11/2000
- Re: Sunday, Harold R. Holmyard III, 04/11/2000
- Re: Sunday, RSBrenchley, 04/13/2000
- Re: Sunday, Harold R. Holmyard III, 04/15/2000
- Re: Sunday, Doug Jantz, 04/15/2000
- Re: Sunday, Robert Brenchley, 04/16/2000
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