Act_20:7 On the first day of the week we met to break bread together. Paul spoke to the people until midnight because he was leaving the next morning.
First…mee’- ah; one or first so it can be interpreted as one Sabbath or the first Sabbath. Not the first day.
Week…sabbaton; In other words, the Sabbath or Shabbath. A day of weekly repose from secular occupations. Definitely referring to the seventh day Sabbath.
1Co_16:2 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.
First….kat’- ah; Can be applied in a genitive, dative or an accusative case. Frequently denotes opposition, distribution or intensity.
Genitive shows possession meaning they possess the Sabbath.
Dative shows the indirect object of a verb.
Accusative is the direct object of the verb.
Week…sabbaton; In other words, the Sabbath or Shabbath. A day of weekly repose from secular occupations.
From this literal translation we see that it says the first or one Sabbath. And that it was for repose from secular work.
Now as the original New Testament Church was a branch of Judaism, known as The Way, they would have still followed the teaching of Judaism as evidenced that they wanted the Gentile Christians to be circumcised to be a follower of Jesus. Entry into the Christian faith for them obviously meant entry into Judaism.
And going back to the creation of the Sabbath we find in Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
When it says God blessed ( baw-rak’) the seventh day it literally means to kneel and by implication to bless God.
Note: interesting that the English spelling of baw-rak’ is barak.
As the Old Testament was the only reference point for The Way, they would have no understanding of the Sabbath other than the seventh day.
And all this has no reference to the believers entering into rest in Hebrews.
First…mee’- ah; one or first so it can be interpreted as one Sabbath or the first Sabbath. Not the first day.
Week…sabbaton; In other words, the Sabbath or Shabbath. A day of weekly repose from secular occupations. Definitely referring to the seventh day Sabbath.
1Co_16:2 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.
First….kat’- ah; Can be applied in a genitive, dative or an accusative case. Frequently denotes opposition, distribution or intensity.
Genitive shows possession meaning they possess the Sabbath.
Dative shows the indirect object of a verb.
Accusative is the direct object of the verb.
Week…sabbaton; In other words, the Sabbath or Shabbath. A day of weekly repose from secular occupations.
From this literal translation we see that it says the first or one Sabbath. And that it was for repose from secular work.
Now as the original New Testament Church was a branch of Judaism, known as The Way, they would have still followed the teaching of Judaism as evidenced that they wanted the Gentile Christians to be circumcised to be a follower of Jesus. Entry into the Christian faith for them obviously meant entry into Judaism.
And going back to the creation of the Sabbath we find in Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
When it says God blessed ( baw-rak’) the seventh day it literally means to kneel and by implication to bless God.
Note: interesting that the English spelling of baw-rak’ is barak.
As the Old Testament was the only reference point for The Way, they would have no understanding of the Sabbath other than the seventh day.
And all this has no reference to the believers entering into rest in Hebrews.
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