11-27-2003, 12:14 AM
Paul Younan Wrote:Shlama Akhi Michael,
The Didascalia is the Latin name of the source I quoted. It is called the "Teaching of the Apostles" in the original Aramaic text that we have. And it contains no such reference to Tuesday evening being the time of the Passover meal. ( so that person is lying <!-- s--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="
Here is a complete translation of it:
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Thanks Paul.
I must say I am a bit puzzled as tere does seem to be more than a few references to this text suppoting Tuesday. here is another example.
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here is another...
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To support the theory of a Tuesday night Last Supper tradition, the earliest source where I have found evidence is the Didascalia Apostolorum, a church order which is supposed to have been composed circa A.D. 200 It states, "For while He was yet with us before He suffered as we were eating the Passover with Him, He said to us, ‘Today, in this night, one of you will betray Me’ . . . . And Judas came with the scribes and with the priests of the people and betrayed our Lord Jesus. And so in the night when the fourth day of the week drew on, betrayed our Lord to them. But they made payment to Judas. . . on the second day of the week . . . For when we had eaten the Passover on the third day of the week at even, we went forth to the Mount of Olives, and in the night they seized our Lord Jesus."1
Are there two versions of this text??