On the
Sunday morning the vessel was about to sail."--_Chapter 20, p.
520._
Describing the road between Troas and Assos, they add:
"Strength and peace were surely sought and obtained by the
apostle from the Redeemer as he pursued his lonely road that
Sunday afternoon in spring among the oak woods and the streams
of Ida."--_Id., p. 522._
Once again the "first day of the week" is mentioned, in 1 Cor. 16:2. But
that scripture says no word of any sacredness of the day or of any
religious observance of it. The apostle was gathering a fund for the
poor at Jerusalem, and asked every believer to "lay by" something every
first day of the week, so that the money would be ready when he came. As
Dean Stanley (Church of England) comments:
"There is nothing to prove public assemblies, inasmuch as the
phrase [Greek: par heauto] ('by himself, at his own house')
implies that the collection was to be made individually and in
private."
And Neander's Church History says:
"All mentioned here is easily explained, if one simply thinks
of the ordinary beginning of the week in secular life.
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