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THE PREMIUM OF THE SIGNS of the TIMES WEEKLY
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Section II — Christ — 18-34
Section III — Nature of Man — 35-63
Section IV — Prophecy and Second Advent — 64-88
Section V — The Moral Law — 89-97
Section VI — The Sabbath — 98-125
Section VII — Ceremonial Law — 126-132
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Section IX — Historical — 139-145
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Will you please explain Acts 20:7? Did some of the apostles keep the first day of the week as the Sabbath?
If you will read the text carefully you will note this, that there is absolutely nothing regarding Sabbath-keeping in the text, or either in the context. The first six verses tell us of the journeys of Paul, and how he came at last to Troas, where he stayed seven days; then as he was about to leave, he held a farewell meeting with the brethren. Verses 7 to 11 simply give us an account of this meeting. The meeting was an evening meeting, held on what is our Saturday night, for the day began at sunset. Paul preached until midnight, then the young man Eutychus, overcome with sleep, fell from a window and was taken up for dead. Paul restored him again, came up, talked again a long time, broke bread with them, and at break of day departed.
The reason for speaking of the meeting is doubtless on account of the miracle that was there wrought. There was absolutely nothing in the record to indicate that the day was a sacred day. The breaking of bread was evidently the meal that was taken together before they left. If it referred to the Lord’s Supper, that did not constitute the day holy, nor establish a custom. The day began, according to the Bible reckoning, in the evening. The remainder of that day was spent by the apostle Paul in travel, waiting until daybreak, and then going across the peninsula to Assos, a journey of about twenty miles. If that first day had been a Sabbath day, evidently the apostle Paul would have observed it with the Christians at Troas, while Luke and the others would have waited for him at Assos; but he used it as a common day for work.
If it is thought, as some speculate, that the meeting was held on Sunday night, there is then nothing to show that the day was kept as a Sabbath, and the breaking of the bread came on what we would call Monday morning.
This is the one text used almost above all others to prove that Sunday is a holy day, but candor must admit that there is nothing in either text or context which intimates such a thing.
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