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The first day, in the Corinthian Church. Paul at Troas, on Sunday. 



«trance. Tliis last fact fully explains the meaning of those 

 texts so often quoted^ and so sadly perverted bj W. B. T.,and 

 on which he bases his unwarranted attaek upon the Christian 

 Sabbath. {Gal iv. 9—11; i?om. xiv. 5—9; Col ii. 10—16.) 



It is worthy of attention that, a few months before writing 

 his Epistle to the Romans, Paul wrote his first to the Corinth- 

 ians, in which (xvi. 1 — i) he gives order for the observance 

 of the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, as the day sacred to Christian 

 Charity. According to the views of W. B. T. on Rom. xiv. 

 5 — 9, Paul at the same time, as it were in the same breath, 

 designates this day, and destroys it — abrogates and honors it. 

 According to my view, Paul recognizes it as the " Lord's day,'^ 

 by saying that "he that observes it, observes it unto the 

 Lorciy For, since it is clear from the context that the day 

 in question is observed mito Chrisi, as "Lord both of the 

 dead and of the living,'^ how could such a thing be possible, 

 but on the supposition that Christ has set apart the day as His 

 own ? Hence it follows that he who douhts this, like my 

 friend W. B. T., is the one who is "weak in faith.'^ 



This will appear still more evident from Acts xx. 6, 7. 

 " And o?i the First Day of the iceeh, when the disciples canie 

 togcther to hreak hrcad, Paul preached unto them.'^ This pas- 

 sage is so decisive of the custom of the Gentile churches, under 

 the eye and sanction of the inspired Apostles, as to startle 

 even W. B. T. himself. But he attempts to evade it by sup- 

 posing, contrary to the express words of the text, that this 

 meeting was held on Saturday evening, and that Paul had so 

 little regard to the First day of the week as to purpose re- 

 commencing his journey on that day ! (p. 94, — note.') A more 

 gratuitous and glaring perversion of a plain text I never met 

 with. As the glory of this new discovery is all his own, he 

 may safely be left " alone in his glory. ^^ Few, I think, will 

 covet to share it with him. I will only observe that the pre- 

 ceding verse shows that Paul had waited a v:liolc iceek at 

 Troas, to enjoy the opportunity of meeting his assembled 



