11-07-2008, 02:14 AM
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Yes it is clear that the resurrection took place sometime after the Sabbath had ended and the 1st of the week was dawning,.... the Scriptures are clear about this.
But the 1st of the week literally began at sunset Saturday, not like our Roman set up which is at midnight.
The Sabbath did not end or close at midnight, but at sundown Saturday evening.
So, based upon this statement, it seems to me that this verse declares that the women went to the catacomb to apply the burial spices at that time rather than near sunup on Sunday....this would be the soonest that they could do this because of the Sabbath restriction and it would seem to me that they would want to get this done as soon a possible.
Paul Younan has this translation for Matthew 28:1 and I am wondering if the word for "Twilight" he uses here for the Aramaic word can mean after sunset just as well as before sunset in the Aramaic Language just as it does in the English.
Younan: Matthew 28:1 ???Now in the evening of the Sabbath as it was twilight the first of the week came Maryam of Magdala and the other Maryam that they might see the grave." (I have left the translation un-punctuated, as his interlinear does not show any)
This verse seems to me to say that the Women started off as soon as the Sabbath had ended at sunset and as the 1st of the week was just beginning to dawn...this would for them mean just after sundown Saturday night, since that was the end and evening of the Sabbath and the start of the 1st day of the week.
For the English word Twilight...
Dictionary results for: twilight
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
-Noun
1. The soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
2. The period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light prevails.
3. A terminal period, esp. after full development, success, etc.: the twilight of his life.
4. A state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.
???Adjective
5. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim; obscure: in the twilight hours.
6. Appearing or flying at twilight; crepuscular.
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Yes it is clear that the resurrection took place sometime after the Sabbath had ended and the 1st of the week was dawning,.... the Scriptures are clear about this.
But the 1st of the week literally began at sunset Saturday, not like our Roman set up which is at midnight.
The Sabbath did not end or close at midnight, but at sundown Saturday evening.
So, based upon this statement, it seems to me that this verse declares that the women went to the catacomb to apply the burial spices at that time rather than near sunup on Sunday....this would be the soonest that they could do this because of the Sabbath restriction and it would seem to me that they would want to get this done as soon a possible.
Paul Younan has this translation for Matthew 28:1 and I am wondering if the word for "Twilight" he uses here for the Aramaic word can mean after sunset just as well as before sunset in the Aramaic Language just as it does in the English.
Younan: Matthew 28:1 ???Now in the evening of the Sabbath as it was twilight the first of the week came Maryam of Magdala and the other Maryam that they might see the grave." (I have left the translation un-punctuated, as his interlinear does not show any)
This verse seems to me to say that the Women started off as soon as the Sabbath had ended at sunset and as the 1st of the week was just beginning to dawn...this would for them mean just after sundown Saturday night, since that was the end and evening of the Sabbath and the start of the 1st day of the week.
For the English word Twilight...
Dictionary results for: twilight
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
-Noun
1. The soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
2. The period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light prevails.
3. A terminal period, esp. after full development, success, etc.: the twilight of his life.
4. A state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.
???Adjective
5. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim; obscure: in the twilight hours.
6. Appearing or flying at twilight; crepuscular.
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