Is die Sabbat heilig of Sondag heilig?

Is Sondag, die eerste dag van die week, die “Christensabbat”? Het dit die sewende dag (Saterdag), die Sabbat, as die rusdag van die Almagtige God vervang? Is die vierde gebod van die Wet van God (Tien Gebooie) soos ons dit opgeteken vind in Ex. 20:8-11 en Deut. 5:12-15, enigsins gewysig of afgeskaf? Aangesien Christus, sy twaalf apostels en al sy ander volgelinge, die sewende dag as die Sabbat van God gehou het, waarom doen die meerderheid Christene dit dat dan nie meer vandag nie, maar vier dit op Sondag?

Wie het die “heilige” Sondag ingestel?

Die Rooms-Katolieke Kerk het die “heilige” Sondag ingestel. Hulle het ook die tweede gebod uit hulle Tien Gebooie uitgehaal en hulle derde gebod handel nou oor die Sabbat in plaas van die vierde gebod. Dit is net een sin: “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day”. The (Catholic) Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from God’s Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's Day...He (God) claims one day out of the seven as a memorial to Himself, and this must be kept holy..." The Catholic Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, "The Ten Commandments", 1908 edition by Robert Appleton Company; and 1999 Online edition by Kevin Knight, Imprimatur, John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York. Dit is so dat God een spesifieke dag in die week, uit die sewe dae, gekies het, dit geheilig het en eis dat dit heilig gehou moet word. Hierdie dag is die sewende dag van die week, die Sabbat!

"Question: How prove you that the church had power to command feasts and holydays?

"Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.

"Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. 'The day of the Lord' was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the (Catholic) Church's sense of its own power...People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy." St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.

"Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday...Now the Church...instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday." Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition, p. 136.

"Question - Which is the Sabbath day?

"Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.

"Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?

"Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.

"Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!"

"Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons." James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a signed letter.

"Question. - How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?

"Answer. - By the very act of changing Sabbath into Sunday which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.

"Question. - How prove you that?

"Answer. - Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power." An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, composed by Henry Tuberville, p. 58.

"Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law, that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is now entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The (Roman Catholic) Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days." John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies, 1936 edition, vol. 1, p. 51.

"Question. What warrant have you for keeping Sunday preferably to the ancient sabbath which was Saturday?

"Answer. We have for it the authority of the Catholic church and apostolic tradition.

"Question. Does the Scripture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath?

"Answer. The Scripture commands us to hear the church (St.Matt.18:17; St. Luke 10:16), and to hold fast the traditions of the apostles. 2 Thess 2:15. But the Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the Sabbath.

"St John speaks of the Lord's day (Rev 1:10) but he does not tell us what day of the week that was, much less does he tell us what day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the commandments. St.Luke speaks of the disciples meeting together to break bread on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7. And St. Paul (1 Cor.16:2) orders that on the first day of the week the Corinthians should lay in store what they designated to bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea: but neither the one or the other tells us that this first day of the week was to be henceforth a day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that truly the best authority we have for this ancient custom is the testimony of the church. And therefore those who pretend to be such religious observers of Sunday, whilst they take no notice of other festivals ordained by the same church authority, show that they act more by humor, than by religion; since Sundays and holidays all stand upon the same foundation, namely the ordinance of the (Roman Catholic) church." Catholic Christian Instructed, 17th edition, p. 272-273.

"Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the (Roman catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath." John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.

"The Catholic church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...The Protestant World at its birth found the Christian Sabbath too strongly entrenched to run counter to its existence; it was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescing in the arrangement, thus implying the (Catholic) Church's right to change the day, for over three hundred years. The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day, the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the Protestant World." James Cardinal Gibbons in the Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1983.

Whose Day of Worship is Sunday?

"They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason...The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath observance...The author of the Sunday law...is the Catholic Church." Ecclesiastical Review, February 1914.

"The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church." American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.

"Sunday...is the law of the Catholic Church alone..." American Sentinel (Catholic), June 1893.

"Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles...From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August 1900.

"It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church." Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.

Who Do We Reverence and Pay Homage to by Keeping Sunday Holy?

"From this we may understand how great is the authority of the church in interpreting or explaining to us the commandments of God - an authority which is acknowledged by the universal practice of the whole Christian world, even of those sects which profess to take the holy Scriptures as their sole rule of faith, since they observe as the day of rest not the seventh day of the week demanded by the Bible, but the first day. Which we know is to be kept holy, only from the tradition and teaching of the Catholic church." Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Easy, # 2, 9th edition, vol. 1, p. 341-342.

"It was the Catholic church which...has transferred this rest to Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) church." Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213.

"Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact." Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act...And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

"I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church says: 'No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.' And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church." father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p. 802.

"Protestants...accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change...But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that...In observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope." Our Sunday Visitor, February 15, 1950.

God se Sabbat

Die Sabbatte is spesiale dae, wat ten alle tye deur JaHWeH se verbondsvolk, tot Sy eer gehou moet word. God het die Sabbat ingestel om Hom op hierdie dag in herinnering te roep, te dien en te eer en alles te onthou wat Hy as Vader gedoen het van die skepping af. Ook om te herdenk dat Hy op die sewende dag gerus het en beveel het dat dit as ‘n ewige instelling gehou moet word (Ex 20:8-11; 31:13-18; Deut 5:12-15). Indien die Sabbat nie onderhou word nie, word God sy gebod oortree en Hy nie onthou en geëer nie. JaHWeH het die sewende dag van elke week afgesonder as ‘n rusdag en ‘n heilige Sabbat (Ex 20:8-11; Lev 23:3 en Deut 5:12-15). Dit is die weeklikse Sabbat.

As toevoeging tot die weeklikse sabbatte, het JaHWeH ook sewe ander spesiale dae van die jaar as Sabbatte verklaar (Lev 23), wat volgens dieselfde voorskrifte as die weeklikse Sabbatte deurgebring moet word.

Wanneer ons na al die tekste oor die dood en opstanding van Jahshua kyk, is dit noodsaaklik om altyd in gedagte te hou dat sedert die tyd van die skepping in Genesis, die Israeliete hul dae begin het en weer geëindig het met sononder (En dit was aand en dit was môre, die eerste dag Gen 1:5). Dit is hoe God die tyd en die bepaling van dae ingestel het. Hierdie verskil ten opsigte van ons huidige berekening van die begin en einde van ‘n dag, veroorsaak baie groot probleme met die verstaan en interpretasie van die tekste oor Jahshua se dood, opstanding en ook die Sabbat. Daar moet ook in gedagte gehou word dat daar soms meer as een Sabbat in ‘n week kan wees. Bo en behalwe die weeklikse Sabbat, kan daar ook ‘n feesdag gedurende die week wees, soos die pasga, wat ook as Sabbat gehou moet word soos hierbo aangetoon.

Jahshua se soendood het plaasgevind gedurende die viering van die pasga en die fees van die ongesuurde brode (Ex 12:15-20; 13:6; Mat 26:17; Mark 14:1).

Die “Christensabbat”

Die Rooms-Katolieke Kerk het die Sondag ingestel as die “Christensabbat”. Die sogenaamde Christensabbat is ‘n kunstig verdigte fabel. Dit berus op menslike veronderstellings en teorieë en is mensgemaak. Buitebybelse gegewens en tradisie word gebruik om dit te regverdig. Daar word beweer dat die hoofrede waarom Christene Sondag as Sabbat moet vier, is omdat Christus konsuis op die Sondag sou opgestaan het. Die tekste wat gebruik word om te bewys dat Jahshua op die eerste dag van die week opgestaan het, is vervals. Nog ‘n rede is dat die apostels ook op gereeld op die eerste dag van die week (Sondag) sou bymekaargekom het. Indien ons na al hierdie oorspronklike Griekse tekste kyk sal ons sien dat dit, in die Afrikaanse Bybel sowel as in die Engelse Bybel, vervals is.

Hierdie vervalsing van die tekste is só erg dat ‘n persoon sonder Griekse kennis dit kan uitwys met behulp van die Grieks Interliniêr. (Mat. 28:1; Mark. 16:2, 9; Luk. 24:1; Joh. 20:1).

LET WEL: Hou ook in gedagte dat die eerste dag van die week aanbreek of begin het net na sononder op die Sabbat. Die Sabbat is dus verby wanneer die son daardie aand ondergaan.

Kom ons kyk eers na die Griekse woord vir Sabbat:

Mat 12:1 At¹⁷²² that¹⁵⁶⁵ time²⁵⁴⁰ Jesus²⁴²⁴ went⁴¹⁹⁸ on the³⁵⁸⁸ sabbath day⁴⁵²¹ through¹²²³ the³⁵⁸⁸ corn;⁴⁷⁰² and²⁵³² his⁸⁴⁶ disciples³¹⁰¹ were hungry,³⁹⁸³ and²⁵³² began⁷⁵⁶ to pluck⁵⁰⁸⁹ the ears of corn,⁴⁷¹⁹ and²⁵³² to eat.²⁰⁶⁸

Luk 23:54 And²⁵³² that day²²⁵⁰ was²²⁵⁸ the preparation,³⁹⁰⁴ and²⁵³² the sabbath⁴⁵²¹ drew on.²⁰²⁰

Luk 23:56 And¹¹⁶¹ they returned,⁵²⁹⁰ and prepared²⁰⁹⁰ spices⁷⁵⁹ and²⁵³² ointments;³⁴⁶⁴ and²⁵³² rested²²⁷⁰ the^{3588 (3303)} sabbath day⁴⁵²¹ according²⁵⁹⁶ to the³⁵⁸⁸ commandment.¹⁷⁸⁵

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σάββατον

sabbaton

Thayer Definition:

1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work

1a) the institution of the sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week

1b) a single sabbath, sabbath day

G4521 Strong’s Definition:

σάββατον

sabbaton

sab'-bat-on

Of Hebrew origin [H7676]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: - sabbath (day)

Let op die Thayer en Strong’s verwysingsnommer [4521] vir Sabbat. Dit is deurgaans verkeerd vertaal.

Luk 6:1-2 And¹¹⁶¹ it came to pass¹⁰⁹⁶ on¹⁷²² the second sabbath after the first,^{1207, 4521} that he⁸⁴⁶ went¹²⁷⁹ through¹²²³ the³⁵⁸⁸ corn fields;⁴⁷⁰² and²⁵³² his⁸⁴⁶ disciples³¹⁰¹ plucked⁵⁰⁸⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ ears of corn,⁴⁷¹⁹ and²⁵³² did eat,²⁰⁶⁸ rubbing⁵⁵⁹⁷ them in their hands.⁵⁴⁹⁵ (2) And¹¹⁶¹ certain⁵¹⁰⁰ of the³⁵⁸⁸ Pharisees⁵³³⁰ said²⁰³⁶ unto them,⁸⁴⁶ Why⁵¹⁰¹ do⁴¹⁶⁰ ye that which³⁷³⁹ is not lawful^{1832, 3756} to do⁴¹⁶⁰ on¹⁷²² the³⁵⁸⁸ sabbath days⁴⁵²¹

Luk 6:1 En op die tweede eerste sabbat het Hy deur die gesaaides geloop, en sy dissipels het die are gepluk en met hulle hande uitgevrywe en geëet. (Daar is dus verskillende Sabbatte)

Die volgende tekste word valslik gebruik om te bewys dat Jahshua op die eerste dag van die week (Sondag) opgestaan het. Dit word ook as genoegsame rede aangevoer om nie meer die vierde gebod van God te gehoorsaam nie en die Sabbatsviering te skuif van die sewende dag (Sabbat) na die eerste dag van die week (Sondag).

Mat 28:1 In the end⁽³⁷⁹⁶⁾ of the sabbath,⁴⁵²¹ as it began to dawn²⁰²⁰ toward¹⁵¹⁹ the first³³⁹¹ day of the week,⁴⁵²¹ came²⁰⁶⁴ Mary³¹³⁷ Magdalene³⁰⁹⁴ and²⁵³² the³⁵⁸⁸ other²⁴³ Mary³¹³⁷ to see²³³⁴ the³⁵⁸⁸ sepulcher.⁵⁰²⁸

He rose “In Sabbath’s-time” – Mt.28:1.

“He spent Sabbath in the tomb …”, Yahshua did spend part of the Sabbath in the tomb, but, “In fulness (“late” opsé) of Sabbath’s-time (sabbátohn) in the very being of light (epiphohskóúsehi) the First Day approaching … (eis mían sábbaton)”, rose from the dead.

Let op dat die Sabbat in Jahshua se tyd op die Vrydagaand met sononder begin het en geduur het tot Saterdag (Sabbat) met sononder. Sodra die son ondergegaan het op die Sabbat, was die Sabbat verby en het die eerste dag van die week aangebreek, d.w.s. net na sonsondergang terwyl dit nog lig was. Dit is baie belangrik om dit te onthou.

Let op dieselfde Thayer verwysingsnommer 4521 vir Sabbat, word verder in die sin met “first day of the week” vertaal in plaas van “die eerste van die Sabbatte”.

Die Grieks Interliniêr (Grieks-Engels)

Mat 28:1	3796-1161	4521	3588	2020	1519	1520 /3391
	oy¢e de	sabb¢atwn	th	epifwsko¢ush	εἰς	μιαν /μία
	But late	on Sabbaths,	in the	evening (drawing on)	into/toward	day one
4521	2064	3137	3588	3094	2532	3558
sabb¢atwn	hlqe	Mar¢ ia	h	Magdalhn¢h	kai	h
of Sabbaths	came	Mary	the	Magdalene,	and	the
243	3137	2334	3588	5028
allh	Mar¢ ia	qewr¢hsai	ton	t ¢afon
other	Mary	to view	the	tomb

Letterlik uit die Engels van Mat.28:1 hervertaal:

(“But late on the Sabbaths, which began to start towards the first of the Sabbaths...”).

(“Maar laat, aan die einde van die Sabbatte (met sononder – [daar was 2 Sabbatte, die fees van die ongesuurde brode en die weeklikse Sabbat (7de dag)] ), teen die aanbreek van die eerste van die Sabbatte [die volgende dag wat net na sononder begin (die eerste dag van die week)] ...”)

Kyk mooi hoe word die verwysingsnommer: 2020 in die volgende teks vertaal:

Luk 23:54 And²⁵³² that day²²⁵⁰ was²²⁵⁸ the preparation,³⁹⁰⁴ and²⁵³² the sabbath⁴⁵²¹ drew on.²⁰²⁰

Luk 23:54 En dit was die dag van voorbereiding, en die sabbat wou aanbreek (die son was besig om te sak, byna sononder).

Mark 16:1-2 And²⁵³² when the³⁵⁸⁸ sabbath⁴⁵²¹ was past,¹²³⁰ Mary³¹³⁷ Magdalene,³⁰⁹⁴ and²⁵³² Mary³¹³⁷ the³⁵⁸⁸ mother of James,²³⁸⁵ and²⁵³² Salome,⁴⁵³⁹ had bought⁵⁹ sweet spices,⁷⁵⁹ that²⁴⁴³ they might come²⁰⁶⁴ and anoint²¹⁸ him.⁸⁴⁶ (2) And²⁵³² very³⁰²⁹ early in the morning⁴⁴⁰⁴ the³⁵⁸⁸ first³³⁹¹ day of the³⁵⁸⁸ week,⁴⁵²¹ they came²⁰⁶⁴ unto¹⁹⁰⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ sepulcher³⁴¹⁹ at the rising³⁹³ of the³⁵⁸⁸ sun.²²⁴⁶

Mark 16:1-2 En toe die sabbat verby was (met sononder), het Maria Magdaléna en Maria, die moeder van Jakobus, en Salóme speserye gekoop om Hom te gaan salf. (2) En baie vroeg op die eerste dag van die week, net ná sonop, kom hulle by die graf.

Markus 16:1, “En toe die Sabbat verby was”, verduidelik: “Die betekenis is dieselfde as in Matteus, “In die aand / einde (“evening”), wat begin breek het teen die eerste dag van die Sabbatte”, en in Lukas, “op die eerste van die sabbatte”. Onthou dat die Israeliete hulle dag van die aanvang van die voorafgaande aand begin bereken het, net na sononder.” Na sononder begin die nuwe dag.

4521 sabbaton

Die Grieks Interliniêr (Grieks-Engels):

(And exceedingly in the morning of day one of the Sabbaths)

Mark 16:9 Now¹¹⁶¹ when Jesus was risen,⁴⁵⁰ early⁴⁴⁰⁴ the first⁴⁴¹³ day of the week⁴⁵²¹ he appeared⁵³¹⁶ first⁴⁴¹² to Mary³¹³⁷ Magdalene,³⁰⁹⁴ out of⁵⁷⁵ whom³⁷³⁹ he had cast¹⁵⁴⁴ seven²⁰³³ devils.¹¹⁴⁰

Die Grieks Interliniêr (Grieks-Engels)

(And having risen, very early on the first day of the Sabbath He appeared first to Mary the Magdalene,)

Luk 24:1 Now¹¹⁶¹ upon the³⁵⁸⁸ first³³⁹¹ day of the³⁵⁸⁸ week,⁴⁵²¹ very early (in the morning),^{901, 3722} they came²⁰⁶⁴ unto¹⁹⁰⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ sepulcher,³⁴¹⁸ bringing⁵³⁴² the spices⁷⁵⁹ which³⁷³⁹ they had prepared,²⁰⁹⁰ and²⁵³² certain⁵¹⁰⁰ others with⁴⁸⁶² them.⁸⁴⁶

Luk 24:1 And the first of the sabbaths, while still very early, they came on the tomb, carrying spices which they prepared; and some were with them. (Literal Translation)

For these reasons just the idea of a Sunday morning resurrection is silly, as it is for more reasons contained in the next objection:

“If it was late on the Sabbath that the women found the tomb empty, why would they be taking spices to anoint the dead body the next morning, knowing it was not there?" (Lk 24:1).”

Joh 20:1 ⁽¹¹⁶¹⁾ The³⁵⁸⁸ first³³⁹¹ day of the³⁵⁸⁸ week⁴⁵²¹ cometh²⁰⁶⁴ Mary³¹³⁷ Magdalene³⁰⁹⁴ early,⁴⁴⁰⁴ when it was⁵⁶⁰⁷ yet²⁰⁸⁹ dark,⁴⁶⁵³ unto¹⁵¹⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ sepulcher,³⁴¹⁹ and²⁵³² seeth⁹⁹¹ the³⁵⁸⁸ stone³⁰³⁷ taken away¹⁴² from¹⁵³⁷ the³⁵⁸⁸ sepulcher.³⁴¹⁹

Die Grieks Interliniêr (Grieks-Engels)

(But on the first of the Sabbaths)

Joh 20:19 Then³⁷⁶⁷ the³⁵⁸⁸ same¹⁵⁶⁵ day²²⁵⁰ at evening,³⁷⁹⁸ being⁵⁶⁰⁷ the³⁵⁸⁸ first³³⁹¹ day of the³⁵⁸⁸ week,⁴⁵²¹ when²⁵³² the³⁵⁸⁸ doors²³⁷⁴ were shut²⁸⁰⁸ where³⁶⁹⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ disciples³¹⁰¹ were²²⁵⁸ assembled⁴⁸⁶³ for¹²²³ fear⁵⁴⁰¹ of the³⁵⁸⁸ Jews,²⁴⁵³ came²⁰⁶⁴ Jesus²⁴²⁴ and²⁵³² stood²⁴⁷⁶ in¹⁵¹⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ midst,³³¹⁹ and²⁵³² saith³⁰⁰⁴ unto them,⁸⁴⁶ Peace¹⁵¹⁵ be unto you.⁵²¹³

Ons sien dus dat “die eerste dag van die week” deurgaans verkeerd vertaal is. Die kerke se regverdiging om die Sabbat na die Sondag te verskuif, is dus op vervalste tekste gebaseer.

Die Nuwe Vertaling (1983) vat hulle vervalsing een stappie verder en gebruik die woord “SONDAE”. Die regverdiging vir Sondag-aanbidding is dus ten volle op vervalste tekste gebaseer.

Hoe moet die ware Sabbat gevier word?

Om regtig die Sabbat te vier en te onderhou, moet ’n mens in die eerste plek gaan kyk wat God in sy Wet en die res van sy Woord voorskryf. In Gen 2: 2-3 staan dat God, nadat Hy die skepping voltooi het, gerus het, en dat Hy die sewende dag, die Sabbat (Saterdag), as gereelde rusdag ingestel het en dit geheilig het. Daar is dus twee dinge wat hier belangrik is: dat jy op die Sabbat moet rus van jou gewone werk en dat die dag heilig (afgesonder vir God), moet wees.

Ons lees in Eksodus 16 dat die Israeliete, selfs nog voordat God vir hulle die Tien Gebooie gegee het, die Sabbat onderhou het deur byvoorbeeld nie op daardie dag manna bymekaar te maak nie.

Verder het die viering van die Sabbat ook as teken van God se verbond met Israel gedien (Ex 31:13-18). Op hierdie dag moes die Israeliete gewyde byeenkomste hou, spesiale offers bring, aan God eer bewys, Hom aanbid, aan sy reddingsdade dink en van hulle gewone dagtaak rus.

In die tyd wat Jahshua op aarde geleef het, het die Fariseërs en ander kerkhoofde ’n hele paar ander reëls by die bestaandes gevoeg. Juis daarom het hulle verskeie kere met Jahshua gebots wanneer Hy byvoorbeeld iemand op die Sabbat gesond gemaak het. Jahshua het egter geantwoord dat Hy Meester is oor die Sabbat en dat Hy gekom het om die ware gees van die Sabbat te herstel. Hy het nie gekom om die Sabbat te verskuif of te vervals nie.

Die Sabbat as Wet

Die Sabbatdag moet gedenk/onderhou en geheilig word (Ex 20:8; Deut 5:12; Ex 16:23, 25, 26; 31:16; 35:2, 3; Lev 26:2; Eseg 20:12,16,20; Jes 58:13;).

Die sewende dag is die Sabbat van God (Ex 20:10).

God het die Sabbatdag geseën en dit geheilig nie ‘n ander dag nie (Ex 20:11).

In Deut 5:14 beveel God ons om die Sabbatdag te hou.

God het nog nooit hierdie bevel opgehef nie!

Almal weet tog Sondag is die eerste dag van die week. Die meeste kalenders dui dit ook so aan.

Almal wat God op hulle eie manier of met mensgemaakte godsdiens wil dien, bedryf dus eiewillige godsdiens.

(Sien ook: Neh 10:31; 13:15-20; Amos 8:5; Jer 17:21, 22, 27)

Onthou, die Sabbat is as wet ingestel en dit kom talle male in die Woord voor, en die strawwe vir die ontheiliging daarvan is geweldig en het uiteindelik die uitwissing van ‘n volk en land tot gevolg.

Daniël het soos volg geprofeteer: “En hy sal woorde spreek teen die Allerhoogste en die heiliges van die Allerhoogste mishandel; en hy sal probeer om tye en wet te verander, en hulle sal in sy hand oorgegee word gedurende 'n tyd en tye en die helfte van 'n tyd” (Dan 7:25). Die Rooms-Katolieke Kerk het die Sabbat na Baäl se dag, Sondag geskuif. Hulle het ook die Wet van God “Tien Gebooie” verander.

Op 22:14-15 Salig is die wat sy gebooie doen, sodat hulle reg kan hê op die boom van die lewe en ingaan deur die poorte in die stad. (15) Maar buite is die honde en die towenaars en die hoereerders en die moordenaars en die afgodedienaars en elkeen wat leuens liefhet en doen.

Die Sabbat as Verbond

Ex 31:13-18 Spreek jy met die kinders van Israel en sê: Julle moet sekerlik my sabbatte onderhou, want dit is 'n teken tussen My en julle in julle geslagte, sodat die mense kan weet dat Ek JaHWeH is wat julle heilig. (14) Onderhou dan die sabbat, want dit moet vir julle heilig wees. Hy wat dit ontheilig, moet sekerlik gedood word; want elkeen wat daarop werk verrig, dié siel moet uitgeroei word onder sy volksgenote uit. (15) Ses dae lank kan werk verrig word, maar op die sewende dag moet dit wees 'n dag van volkome rus, heilig aan JaHWeH. Elkeen wat op die sabbatdag werk doen, moet sekerlik gedood word. (16) En die kinders van Israel moet die sabbat onderhou deur die sabbat te vier in hulle geslagte as 'n ewige verbond. (17) Tussen My en die kinders van Israel is dit vir ewig 'n teken; want in ses dae het JaHWeH die hemel en die aarde gemaak, maar op die sewende dag het Hy gerus en Hom verkwik. (18) En Hy het aan Moses, toe Hy geëindig het om met hom te spreek op die berg Sinai, die twee tafels van die Getuienis gegee, tafels van klip, beskrywe met die vinger van God.

Ex 35:2 Ses dae lank kan daar werk verrig word, maar op die sewende dag moet daar vir julle 'n heiligheid, 'n dag van volkome rus wees tot eer van JaHWeH. Elkeen wat daarop werk verrig, moet gedood word.

Deut 4:13 Toe het Hy aan julle sy verbond verkondig wat Hy julle beveel het om te doen, die tien woorde, en dit op twee kliptafels geskrywe.

Deut 4:14 Ook het JaHWeH my in dié tyd bevel gegee om julle die insettinge en verordeninge te leer, dat julle dit kan doen in die land waarheen julle oortrek om dit in besit te neem.

"Ek sal my verbond nie ontheilig nie, en wat oor my lippe gegaan het, sal Ek nie verander nie." Psalm 89:35.

"Want Ek, JaHWeH, het nie verander nie..." Maleági 3:16.

"Moenie dink dat Ek gekom het om die wet of die profete te ontbind nie. Ek het nie gekom om te ontbind nie, maar om te vervul. Want voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, voordat die hemel en die aarde verbygaan, sal nie een jota of een titteltjie van die wet ooit verbygaan totdat alles gebeur het nie. Elkeen dus wat een van die minste van hierdie gebooie breek en die mense só leer, sal die minste genoem word in die koninkryk van die hemele; maar elkeen wat dit doen en leer, hy sal groot genoem word in die koninkryk van die hemele." Matthéüs 5:17–19.

"U wet is waarheid." Psalm 119:142.

"Al U gebooie is waarheid." Psalm 119:151.

"Want die JaHWeH is goed; sy goedertierenheid is tot in ewigheid, en sy trou van geslag tot geslag." Psalm 100:5.

"Al Sy gebooie is betroubaar. Vasgestel is hulle vir altyd, vir ewig; uitgevoer in trou en opregtheid." Psalm 111:7-8.

"En dit is die liefde, dat ons wandel volgens sy gebooie. Dit is die gebod soos julle van die begin af gehoor het (sien Exodus 20:8–11) dat julle daarin moet wandel." 2 Johannes 1:6.

"Hy wat sê: Ek ken Hom - en sy gebooie nie bewaar nie - is ‘n leuenaar en in hom is die waarheid nie." 1 Johannes 2:4.

"Die hoofsaak van alles wat gehoor is, is: Vrees God en hou sy gebooie; want dit geld vir alle mense." Prediker 12:13.

Maar tevergeefs vereer hulle My deur leringe te leer wat gebooie van mense is” (Mark. 7:6-7). Dink daaraan! Jahshua sê duidelik dat dit moontlik is om God te dien – maar dit nogtans TEVERGEEFS doen deur die leringe van mense te volg! Julle verstaan dit goed om die gebod van God opsy te sit en so julle oorlewering te onderhou” (vers 9).

Mat 5:18-19 Want voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, voordat die hemel en die aarde verbygaan, sal nie een jota of een titteltjie van die wet ooit verbygaan totdat alles gebeur het nie. (19) Elkeen dus wat een van die minste van hierdie gebooie breek en die mense só leer, sal die minste genoem word in die koninkryk van die hemele; maar elkeen wat dit doen en leer, hy sal groot genoem word in die koninkryk van die hemele.

1 Kor 7:19 Die besnydenis is niks en die onbesnedenheid is niks, maar die onderhouding van die gebooie van God.

Spr 28:9 Wie sy oor wegdraai om nie na die wet te luister nie, selfs sy gebed is 'n gruwel.

Mat 24:20 En bid dat julle vlug nie in die winter of op die Sabbat mag plaasvind nie.

Lees maar gerus ook Levitikus 26.

Die Opstanding van Jahshua

1 Kor 15:3-4 Want in die eerste plek het ek aan julle oorgelewer wat ek ook ontvang het, dat Christus vir ons sondes gesterf het volgens die Skrifte; (4) en dat Hy begrawe is, en dat Hy op die derde dag opgewek is volgens die Skrifte;

Mat 12:40 Want soos Jona drie dae en drie nagte in die buik van die groot vis was, só sal die Seun van die mens drie dae en drie nagte in die hart van die aarde wees.

Woordomskrywings:

1. “aanbreek”

Strong’s Dictionary:

G2020

ἐπιφώσκω

epiphōskō

ep-ee-foce'-ko

A form of G2017; to begin to grow light: - begin to dawn, X draw on.

2. “aand word”

Thayer Dictionary:

G3798

ὄψίος

opsios

Thayer Definition:

1) late

2) evening

2a) either from three to six o’clock p.m.

2b) from six o’clock p.m. to the beginning of night

Part of Speech: adjective

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G3796

Strong’s

G3798

ὄψίος

opsios

op'-see-os

From G3796; late; feminine (as noun) afternoon (early eve) or nightfall (later eve): - even (-ing, [-tide]).

“evening”

The period following sunset with which the Jewish day began (Gen_1:5; Mar_13:35). The Hebrews reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Exo_16:12 : Exo_30:8; Exo_12:6 (marg.); Lev_23:5 (marg. R.V., “between the two evenings”). The “first evening” was that period when the sun was verging towards setting, and the “second evening” the moment of actual sunset.

3. “dag”

Só het God die berekening van ‘n dag ingestel:

“En dit was aand en dit was môre, die eerste dag” (Gen 1:5).

“En dit was aand en dit was môre, die tweede dag” (Gen 1:8).

Die dag begin dus net ná sononder op die een dag en eindig met sononder op die volgende dag.

Die weeklikse Sabbat begin dus op Vrydagaand net na sononder, en eindig Saterdag met sonsondergang.

Lev 23:32 'n Dag van volkome rus moet dit vir julle wees, en julle moet jul verootmoedig. Op die negende van die maand in die aand, van aand tot aand, moet julle jul sabbat hou. (sien ook Ex 12:18; Mark 15:42; Luk 23:54; Joh 19:31 en 2 Kor 11:25).

“day”

Fausset’s Bible Dictionary

Reckoned from sunset to sunset by the Hebrew. Gen 1:5; "the evening and the morning were the first day." 2 Co 11:25; "a night and a day." Dan 8:14 margin. So our fortnight equals fourteen nights. "Evening, morning, and noon" (Psa 55:17) are the three general divisions. Fuller divisions are: dawn, of which the several stages appear in Christ's resurrection (Mar 16:2; Joh 20:1; Rev 22:16, "the bright and morning star" answering to Aijeleth Shahar, "gazelle of the morning," Psalm 22 title; Mat 28:1; Luk 24:1); sunrise; heat of the day; the two noons (tsaharaim, Hebrew; Gen 43:16); the cool of the day (Gen 3:8); evening (divided into early evening and late evening after actual sunset).

Between the two evenings the paschal lamb and the evening sacrifice used to be offered. "Hour" is first mentioned Dan 3:6; Dan 3:15; Dan 5:5. The Israelites learned from the Babylonians the division of the day into twelve parts (Joh 11:9). Ahaz introduced the sun dial from Babylon (Isa 38:8). The usual times of prayer were the third, sixth, and ninth hours (Dan 6:10; Act 2:15; Act 3:1). "Give us day by day our daily bread" (Luk 11:3); i.e., bread for the day as it comes (epiousion arton).

4. “sabbat”

G4521

σάββατον

sabbaton

Thayer Definition:

1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work

1a) the institution of the sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week

1b) a single sabbath, sabbath day

G4521 Strong’s Definition:

σάββατον

sabbaton

sab'-bat-on

Of Hebrew origin [H7676]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: - sabbath (day)

“eerste van die sabbatte” - “first of Sabbaths” – sien Deut 16:9-10

Die Grieks Interliniêr (Grieks-Engels)

Mat 28:1	3796-1161	4521	3588	2020	1519	1520 /3391
	oy¢e de	sabb¢atwn	th	epifwsko¢ush	εἰς	μιαν /μία
	But late	on Sabbaths,	in the	evening (drawing on)	into/toward	day one
4521	2064	3137	3588	3094	2532	3558
sabb¢atwn	hlqe	Mar¢ ia	h	Magdalhn¢h	kai	h
of Sabbaths	came	Mary	the	Magdalene,	and	the
243	3137	2334	3588	5028
allh	Mar¢ ia	qewr¢hsai	ton	t ¢afon
other	Mary	to view	the	tomb

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Matthew 28:1 | oye <3796> de <1161> {BUT LATE} sabbatwn <4521> th <3588> {ON SABBATH,} epifwskoush <2020> (5723) {AS IT WAS GETTING DUSK} eiV <1519> {TOWARD [THE]} mian <3391> {FIRST/ONE} sabbatwn <4521> {OF [THE] SABBATHS,} hlqen <2064> (5627) {CAME} maria <3137> {MARY} h <3588> {THE} magdalhnh <3094> {MAGDALENE} kai <2532> {AND} h <3588> {THE} allh <243> {OTHER} maria <3137> {MARY} qewrhsai <2334> (5658) {TO SEE} ton <3588> {THE} tafon <5028> {SEPULCHRE.}

Darby's English Translation
28:1 Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.

Young's Literal Translation
28:1 And on the eve of the Sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the Sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

Mat 28:1 En laat ná die sabbat, [toe dit begin donker word] (na sononder), teen die aanbreek van eerste dag van die week, kom Maria Magdaléna en die ander Maria om na die graf te gaan kyk.

Mat 28:2 En daar kom 'n groot aardbewing, want 'n engel van JaHWeH het uit die hemel neergedaal en gekom en die steen van die opening weggerol en daarop gaan sit.

Mat 28:5-7 Maar die engel antwoord en sê vir die vroue: Moenie vrees nie, want ek weet julle soek Jahshua wat gekruisig is. (6) Hy is nie hier nie, want Hy het opgestaan soos Hy gesê het. Kom kyk na die plek waar die Here gelê het; (7) en gaan haastig, sê vir sy dissipels: Hy het opgestaan uit die dode en gaan voor julle uit na Galiléa. Daar sal julle Hom sien. Kyk, ek het julle dit gesê.

Mark 16:1

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Mark 16:1 | kai <2532> {AND} diagenomenou <1230> (5637) {BEING PAST} tou <3588> {THE} sabbatou <4521> {SABBATH,} maria <3137> {MARY} h <3588> {THE} magdalhnh <3094> {MAGDALENE} kai <2532> {AND} maria <3137> {MARY} h <3588> tou <3588> {THE [MOTHER]} iakwbou <2385> {OF JAMES} kai <2532> {AND} salwmh <4539> {SALOME} hgorasan <59> (5656) {BOUGHT} arwmata <759> {AROMATICS,} ina <2443> {THAT} elqousai <2064> (5631) {HAVING COME} aleiywsin <218> (5661) {THEY MIGHT ANOINT} auton <846> {HIM.}

Young's Literal Translation
16:1 And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint Him,

Mark 16:2

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Mark 16:2 kai <2532> {AND} lian <3029> {VERY} prwi <4404> {EARLY} thV <3588> {ON THE} miaV <3391> {FIRST [DAY]} sabbatwn <4521> {OF THE WEEK} ercontai <2064> (5736) {THEY COME} epi <1909> {TO} to <3588> {THE} mnhmeion <3419> {TOMB,} anateilantoV <393> (5660) {HAVING RISEN} tou <3588> {THE} hliou <2246> {SUN [OF RIGHTEOUSNESS].}

Mar 16:2 – “And very early on the first day of the week,.... See Gill on Mat_28:1.

They came to the sepulchre after the rising of the Sun of righteousness; for though it was still light when they set out after sunset, and it grew darker as the first day of the week started just after sunset. It was still very early on the first day of the week.

Let it be observed, that Christ, who is called the Sun of righteousness, (Mal 4:2); the Hind of the morning, (Psa 22:1) (title, "Aijeleth Shahar"), and the Morning Star, (Rev 22:16), rose at this time.

Darby's English Translation
16:2 And very early on the first day of the week they come to the sepulchre, The Sun having risen.

Mar 16:2 And very early on the first of the week, The Sun having risen, they came upon the tomb.

Mark 16:2 En baie vroeg op die eerste dag van die week (net ná sononder), net ná die Son van geregtigheid opgestaan het, kom hulle by die graf.

Mark 16:9

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Mark 16:9 | anastaV <450> (5631) de <1161> {BUT HAVING RISEN ,} prwi <4404> {EARLY [THE]} prwth <4413> {FIRST [ONE]} sabbatou <4521> {OF THE SABBATHS} efanh <5316> (5648) {HE APPEARED} prwton <4412> {FIRST} maria <3137> {TO MARY} th <3588> {THE} magdalhnh <3094> {MAGDALENE,} af <575> {FROM} hV <3739> {WHOM} ekbeblhkei <1544> (5715) {HE HAD CAST OUT} epta <2033> {SEVEN} daimonia <1140> {DEMONS.}

Mar 16:9 αναστας⁴⁵⁰ δε¹¹⁶¹ πρωι⁴⁴⁰⁴ πρωτη⁴⁴¹³ σαββατου⁴⁵²¹ εφανη⁵³¹⁶ πρωτον⁴⁴¹² μαρια³¹³⁷ τη³⁵⁸⁸ μαγδαληνη³⁰⁹⁴ αφ⁵⁷⁵ ης³⁷³⁹ εκβεβληκει¹⁵⁴⁴ επτα²⁰³³ δαιμονια¹¹⁴⁰

Mar 16:9 But having risen, He first appeared early on the first of the sabbath (the next day after sabbath) to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

Mar 16:9 Maar nadat Hy opgestaan het, het Hy vroeg op die eerste dag van die week (net na sononder), eers verskyn aan Maria Magdaléna, uit wie Hy sewe duiwels uitgedryf het.

Dit beteken: Maar nadat Hy opgestaan het (toe die Sabbat eindig), het Hy vroeg op die eerste dag van die week (net na sononder, toe die eerste dag begin), eers aan Maria Magdaléna verskyn, uit wie Hy sewe duiwels uitgedryf het.

Lukas 24:1

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Luke 24:1 | th <3588> de <1161> {BUT ON THE} mia <3391> {FIRST [DAY]} twn <3588> {OF THE} sabbatwn <4521> orqrou <3722> {WEEK} baqeoV <901> {VERY EARLY} hlqon <2064> (5627) {THEY CAME} epi <1909> {TO} to <3588> {THE} mnhma <3418> {TOMB,} ferousai <5342> (5723) {BRINGING} a <3739> {WHICH} htoimasan <2090> (5656) {THEY HAD PREPARED} arwmata <759> {AROMATICS,} kai <2532> {AND} tineV <5100> {SOME [OTHERS]} sun <4862> {WITH} autaiV <846> {THEM.}

(LITV) And the first of the sabbaths, while still very early, they came on the tomb, carrying spices which they prepared; and some were with them.

Luk 24:1 Maar baie vroeg (net na sononder), op die eerste dag van die week, het hulle en ander saam met hulle by die graf gekom en die speserye gebring wat deur hulle toeberei was.

Lukas 24:2

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) Luke 24:2 euron <2147> (5627) {THEY FOUND} de <1161> {AND} ton <3588> {THE} liqon <3037> {STONE} apokekulismenon <617> (5772) {ROLLED AWAY} apo <575> {FROM} tou <3588> {THE} mnhmeiou <3419> {TOMB;}

Luk 24:2 En hulle het die steen van die graf afgerol gevind.

Johannes 20:1

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) John 20:1 | th <3588> de <1161> {BUT ON THE} mia <3391> {FIRST} twn <3588> {OF THE} sabbatwn <4521> {SABBATHS} maria <3137> {MARY} h <3588> {THE} magdalhnh <3094> {MAGDALENE} ercetai <2064> (5736) {COMES} prwi <4404> {EARLY} skotiaV <4653> {DARK} eti <2089> {NOW/MORE} oushV <5607> (5752) {IT BEING} eiV <1519> {TO} to <3588> {THE} mnhmeion <3419> {TOMB,} kai <2532> {AND} blepei <991> (5719) {SEES} ton <3588> {THE} liqon <3037> {STONE} hrmenon <142> (5772) {TAKEN AWAY} ek <1537> {FROM} tou <3588> {THE} mnhmeiou <3419> {TOMB.}

John 20:1 But on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being more darkness now) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,

(LITV) Joh 20:1 But on the first of the sabbaths, Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, darkness yet being on it. And she saw the stone had been removed from the tomb.

Joh 20:1 Maar vroeg op die eerste dag van die week kom Maria Magdaléna, terwyl dit nou meer donker was, by die graf en sien dat die steen van die graf weggeneem was.

(Greek/English Interlinear (tr) NT) John 20:19 | oushV <5607> (5752) oun <3767> {IT BEING THEREFORE} oyiaV <3798> th <3588> {EVENING} hmera <2250> ekeinh <1565> {ON THAT DAY,} th <3588> {THE} mia <3391> twn <3588> {FIRST} sabbatwn <4521> {OF THE SABBATHS,} kai <2532> {AND} twn <3588> {THE} qurwn <2374> {DOORS} kekleismenwn <2808> (5772) {HAVING BEEN SHUT} opou <3699> {WHERE} hsan <2258> (5713) {WERE} oi <3588> {THE} maqhtai <3101> {DISCIPLES} sunhgmenoi <4863> (5772) {ASSEMBLED,} dia <1223> ton <3588> {THROUGH} fobon <5401> {FEAR} twn <3588> {OF THE} ioudaiwn <2453> {JUDEANS [JEWS],} hlqen <2064> (5627) o <3588> {CAME} ihsouV <2424> {JESUS} kai <2532> {AND} esth <2476> (5627) {STOOD} eiV <1519> {IN} to <3588> {THE} meson <3319> {MIDST,} kai <2532> {AND} legei <3004> (5719) {SAYS} autoiV <846> {TO THEM,} eirhnh <1515> {PEACE} umin <5213> {TO YOU.}

(Young's Literal Translation) John 20:19 It being, therefore, evening, on that day (same day), the first of the Sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;'

We already referred to the meaning of the Hebrew words in Lv.23:32, and found that the real meaning – because it is the simplest – of the expression behn-haarbayim is “between the two nights” – daytime. Not “between the two evenings” which logically and practically is an impossibility. “Between the (two) evenings” in any case is impossible. Any time-section is either the previous or the next day and can of neither, be some third in between time-entity.

“Joshua 8:28-29; 10:26-27; John 19:31 are all in harmony with Deuteronomy 21:23.” p. 11 2nd last par. John certainly is not in harmony with Dt.21:23. See Par. 5.2.1.4. Dt.21:23 is irrelevant as far as Jn.19:31 is concerned. Notwithstanding here is the best definition of “evening” in this booklet. “The beginning of each day is at sunset bringing on the evening. …Technically, we can say that every day has only one evening (or dusk or twilight) and it comes first, followed by night and then sunrise and daylight until the next sunset”. Last paragraph page 11 This confirms our finding thus far that the “evening” of the Authorised Version as the old English equivalent for the 213

Hebrew ereb, does not “arrive” (present tense) with the sun already set, but “with the setting sun”. Ereb – “eve” in the Hebrew and old English idiom – does not mark the beginning of the new day; it marks the end of the old day, or, it simply means, “night”. Day’s ending “arrives” (at noon) and, “goes” “with the setting sun” (afternoon = “vespers”). It ends the moment of sunset. “Sunset” is the end of the end of the old day, as well as the beginning of the beginning (evening) of the new day.