THE LORD'S DAY by E. O. H.

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

THE LORD'S DAY.

By E. O. H.

What is to be understood by the Lord's day in Rev. 1: 10?

ANS. In the connection from which the above quotation is taken, we are not informed which day John means by the term “Lord's day;” therefore we must look elsewhere in the Scriptures for the desired information. We are of the opinion that he means the seventh day of the week, commonly called Saturday, as that is the only day the Lord ever claimed as his, in distinction from the laboring days of the week, save the ceremonial sabbaths mentioned in Lev. 23, which passed away with the Jewish ritual, more than three-score years before John wrote the Revelation. In Ex. 20: 10 we read, “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Again, in Isa. 58: 13, “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day,” etc. John evidently refers to this sacred day in Rev. 1: 10, written near the close of the first century.—E. O. H., in Herald of Life.