ApostateAbe

Use Control-f in your browser to find and type "mark 16" for each page, and I think you'll find what you need.

rstrats

ApostateAbe,

re: “Use Control-f in your browser to find and type 'mark 16' for each page, and I think you'll find what you need.”


I did that and I still don’t see where the authors of “History of the Sabbath and the First Day of the Week” use Mark 16:9 to argue a first day of the week resurrection which in turn they used - at least in part - to justify the establishment of the first day of the week as a special day for rest and worship.

rstrats

Huon,

I’m afraid I don’t see where your quote uses Mark 16:9 to support a first day resurrection.

Huon

The latin text is this (Cath Encycl, Clementine Vulgate) :
9 Surgens autem mane prima sabbati, apparuit primo Mariæ Magdalene, de qua ejecerat septem dæmonia.
The english translation is this (Cath Encycl) :
9 But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils.
KJV :
9. Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Here, "early the first day of the week" is not Sunday morning, but "mane prima sabbati". I understand "mane" as "morning", "prima" as "first hour of the day". But how can we translate the genitive "sabbati" ???? Sunday, or more probably Saturday ?

And in the Jewish calendar, sabbath is the seventh day of the week !

added : primā luce : at the beginning of the day (dictionary)

Now, we have to look at the greek text of gMark...

Petergdi

I'm pretty sure that "prima sabbati" (or prote sabbatou in Greek) is the first day after the Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday, so the first day after would be Sunday. It seems pretty reasonable to translate this as "the first day of the week." Saying something like "the first of the Sabbath" would be excessively literal.

Peter.

Huon

You are right. I have verified in gMark. The important verse is gMark 16.1 :

16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

16:1. Et cum transisset sabbatum, Maria Magdalene ... etc
Mk 16:9 must be understood in the light of 16:1

I apologize.

For rstrats :
The Catho Encycl does not mention Mk 16:1 either. They want you to understand that Sunday was transformed into "the Lord's Day" not immediately after the death of the Lord, but after the final break between the Jews and the Christians. They call that moment "Apostolic times", but will never give a precise date, even tentative. They quote Justin.