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And upon the first _day_ of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were assembled together. And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves, for his life is in him. When he, therefore, was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, he departed.
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They continued steadfast in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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And they, continuing _daily_ with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. 2d. That in those times a day was counted
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From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbaths. Lev. 23:32. Thus it appears, by this passage, that they had simply met, as was their uniform, daily custom, to celebrate the breaking of bread on the evening (the commencement of the day), it being the last evening Paul was to be with them; and in all probability the circumstance would not have been noticed so particularly, but to introduce the case of Eutychus, in confirmation of Paul's miraculous powers. The passage does not prove any thing for the sacredness of the first day of the week, but proves much against it; for, if the first day of the week is holy time, Paul, in preaching till midnight, and departing on the morrow, would be a Sabbath-breaker for traveling on that day. He would have kept the evening only.
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From _even_ unto _even_ shall ye celebrate your Sabbaths. The same disregard for the sacredness of the first day of the week was manifested by the Redeemer himself, in traveling on the
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to Emmaus, a distance of seven and a half miles, while a
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Sabbath-day's journey was restricted to _one mile_: slender evidence, indeed, of the Saviour's having transferred the holiness of the _Sabbath_ to
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or having
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Upon the first _day_ of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. 1 Cor. 16:2. First _day_? Day is not in the original, but is supplied, and is so designated by being italicized. So the true reading is,
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In the first of the week. However, if it mean the first day, Sunday, it makes it a commercial day, a day of business, a day of reckoning, not of _rest_, as it requires a man to cast up his accounts, to find what amount he can
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I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. Rev. 1:10. There is nothing in this passage, or in the context, to indicate that it was the first day of the week. It is a mere _assumption_, without any Scripture to fortify the position. The best biblical critics admit that there is no scriptural evidence to identify the expression with the first day of the week. If we follow the Protestant rule, to prove Scripture by Scripture, and not evade the plain teachings of the Bible, it will be an easy matter to see a much more apt application of the expression. Many of the best commentators suppose that it alludes to the Gospel-day.
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Your father Abraham rejoiced to see _my day_; he saw it, and was glad. John 8:56. Was not this a day which approximates (if it will not be admitted to be identical) not only in _idea_, but in a _kin-name_--the _day of Christ_--the Gospel-day? Paul speaks of it as something yet to come.
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That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense, till the _day of Christ_.
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Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the _day of Christ_, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
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Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now, we beseech you, brethren, by the _coming_ of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
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That the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Phil. 1:10; 2:16; 1 Cor. 1:8; 2 Thess. 2:1, 2, 3; 1 Cor. 5:5. Again, it is maintained by some expounders, that allusion is had to the Judgment Day.
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The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and all the works therein, shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10. Therefore John, in saying,
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I was in the spirit on the Lord's day,