The Sabbath—the Sunday—the Greek

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 16, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 33.

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The Sabbath—the Sunday—the Greek.

In last week's issue there were two articles on the Sabbath question, one in our editorial department, and the other in the general articles, entitled, "The First Day of the Week." The latter presents the testimony of modern scholars as to the correct translation of the Greek original of "the first day of the week." We hope that it may be read. We wish, however, to present briefly other evidence as to the correct rendering of the Greek by the term "first day of the week." We have before us the commentaries of Clarke, Olshausen, Scott, Alford, Barnes, and others. These men, all first-day observers, made a word-by-word study of the Scriptures, some of them in the original; but never once do they intimate that any other rendering than the common one is admissible. In other words, they do not question "the first day of the week." The translators of the King James Version were all observers of the first day and scholars; but there was union in the rendering given in our common version. The English Revisers, all first-day observers and all eminent scholars, came to the same conclusion. The American Revisers, with a more careful and critical study of years longer, with every honest inducement for them to furnish support for Sunday observance if the original held it, could not do otherwise than render mian sabbatōn by the term "first day of the week." There are many others. It may be safely said that all the scholarship is on that side; and that is the Bible side.