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Thomas Constable · Citado em PreceptAustin
Atos 20
Constable - This is the first clear reference in Scripture to the early Christians meeting to worship on the first day of the week rather than on the Sabbath, the seventh day (cf. John 20:19, 26; 1 Cor. 16:2; Rev. 1:10). Jack Arnold - When Luke uses the term “first day of the week,” he is reckoning time by the Roman calendar and not the Jewish calendar. The first day of the week was Sunday. This is the earliest unambiguous record for the Sunday meeting of the early church. At first the early church met every day in homes and on the Sabbath (seventh day) in the Temple. “And day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart” (Acts 2:46). Over thirty years later, in Acts 10:7, we find the church settled on the first day of the week (Sunday) for their public worship. Other references make it clear that the church did meet on Sunday. “On the first day of every week let each one of you put aside and save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come” (1 Cor. 16:2). Sunday was referred to by Christians as the Lord's Day. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet” (Rev. 1:10). My personal conviction is that Christians over a long period of time changed the official day of worship from Saturday to Sunday because it was on Sunday, the first day of the week, that Christ was raised from the dead. Christians meet on the first day because this is the day of resurrection. Each Lord’s Day we celebrate the resurrection. Jesus Christ is alive, and every Christian recognizes this fact by gathering together in public worship on Sunday. Each Sunday is a fresh Easter. As individual Christians, we recognize Easter 365 days a year. As Christians collectively, we recognize Easter 52 weeks each year by meeting on Sunday. Another reason for changing the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday was that Christians wanted to stress a different day of worship because they were New Covenant Christians who had experienced the new spiritual creation in Christ. The Sabbath in the Old Testament has not changed. It is still Saturday. However, New Covenant Christians have chanaed in relation to the Sabbath of the Old Testament. The Sabbath is only connected with the Lord's Day in the New Covenant in principle. That is, the Lord's Day, Sunday, is a special day for rest, worship and spiritual activity. A Christian should try to do things on that day he does not do on other days of the week. The Lord's Day, therefore, should be given over to Christ in a way that other days of the week are not, even though everything done on the other days of the week should be under the Lordship of Christ. My personal conviction is that no New Covenant Christian is in any way a Sabbath keeper, but Sunday, according to the pattern of the Old Testament Sabbath, is to be for rest, worship and spiritual activity. We learn from this passage and from history that the early Christians met on Sunday night because the slaves and others had to work all day Sunday. They had long night meetings which lasted for four and five hours. (Acts 20:1-12 New Testament Practices) Stanley Toussaint - Luke’s method of counting days here was not Jewish, which measures from sundown to sundown, but Roman, which counted from midnight to midnight. This can be stated dogmatically because “daylight” (Acts 20:11) was the next day (Acts 20:7). (Bible Knowledge Commentary) Steven
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Constable - Chios was the major town of a small island by the same name on which the poet Homer had been born. Samos was another island off the coast of Asia directly west of Ephesus another day’s sail south. Miletus stood 30 miles south of Ephesus on the mainland. And the next day - The third day in reality from Assos and the fourth from Troas. We crossed over to Samos (map): the birthplace of the mathematician Pythagoras Crossed over (3846) (paraballo from para - beside + ballo = throw) literally meant to throw alongside, to come near to something, to put in by. It was a nautical technical term, of a ship approaching land, coming near by ship, crossing over. In seamen’s speech, “to come near by ship.” Only use in the New Testament. In the Septuagint - Ruth 2:16; Prov. 2:2; Prov. 4:20; Prov. 5:1; Prov. 5:13; Prov. 22:17 Gilbrant - In classical Greek paraballō comes from para (3706) meaning “alongside” or “beside,” and ballō (900), meaning “to throw.” This combination, “to throw beside,” as in the throwing of fodder to horses, is evident in pre-Christian literature (Liddell-Scott). Paraballō is used in the same manner in early Christian literature of the “throwing” of martyrs to the wild beasts (Bauer). Paraballō is used in another sense outside the New Testament; there it is translated “give up” or “expose” oneself as to danger (ibid.). In the Septuagint paraballō usually translates the Hebrew term nāṯâh, meaning “stretch out, incline” (cf. Proverbs 2:2; 5:1). In Ruth 2:16 paraballō translates the Hebrew term shālal where Boaz instructed his harvesters to “draw out” some whole sheaves of barley for Ruth to pick up as she gleaned behind them. In all instances paraballō is used for a positive result. (Complete Biblical Library Greek-English Dictionary) And the day following "The day holding itself next to the one before". This would be the fourth from Assos. The trip from Mitylene to Miletus was three days; because of the dangerous coastal waters they only sailed during the day. We came to Miletus: Melitus was a seacoast town about 28 miles south of Ephesus. The modern site is several miles from the sea (or click here) due to the silt from the Maeander River . This city, once the chief city of the Ionian Greeks, was now quite eclipsed by Ephesus. Deffinbaugh makes an interesting observation - The ship which Paul sailed on seems to have been on a “milk run,” stopping at various ports along its way toward Caesarea (Acts 21:8). One may well wonder why Paul would have taken a ship which had so many delays if he were in such a hurry to reach Jerusalem. The only reasonable answer to this is that all such ships would have had delays for onloading and offloading cargo, for supplies, repairs, and seamen. The ship which Paul took must have had the shortest travel time, and thus Paul endured the delays because they were minimum. (Acts 20:1-38 Preparation for Pentecost) Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. NET Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost. GNT Acts 20:16 κεκρίκει γὰρ ὁ Παῦλος παραπλεῦσαι τὴν Ἔφεσον, ὅπως μὴ γένηται αὐτῷ χρονοτριβῆσαι ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ· ἔσπευδεν γὰρ εἰ δυνατὸν εἴη αὐτῷ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς πεντηκοστῆς γενέσθαι εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα. NLT Acts 20:16 Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, for he didn't want to spend any more time in the province of Asia. He was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if possible, in time for the Festival of Pentecost. KJV Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. ESV Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. ASV Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. CSB Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so he would not have to spend time in Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost. NIV Acts 20:16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost. NKJ Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost. NRS Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia; he was eager to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. YLT Acts 20:16 for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus: Ac 20:13 18:21 19:21 21:4 12:13 24:17 Ro 15:24-28 on the day of