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xenox (елфът савин) |
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| Публикувано | 15.05.06 12:59 |
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Пускам още, току виж някой прочел и се вразумил.
The days of the week
"Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans," the Teabing character declares. "Originally," Langdon adds, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration of the sun. To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute – Sunday."
Nothing could be further from the truth. As a matter of pure and simple fact, the New Testament records quite clearly that Christians gathered for worship on the day of Christ's resurrection from the dead, the day after the Sabbath (Mark 16:2) or the Lord's Day ("Kyriake" in the original Greek) as it is described in Revelation 1:10. This ancient practice is also referred to in Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:2. Furthermore, a number of post-New Testament writers like St. Ignatius of Antioch (executed in 115AD) and St. Justin the Martyr (executed in 155AD) to name only two, confirm the practice of Christians gathering for worship on Sunday. Constantine "shifted" nothing. All that Constantine did in the year 321AD was grant legal status as a holiday within the Empire to a centuries-old apostolic practice of the Church.
But we also need to look at the question of language. It is true, as the Langdon character asserts, that Sunday is indeed the "Day of the Sun" in English. And Saturday, by the way, is "Saturn's Day" and not the Jewish Sabbath. Thursday is "Thor's Day." It is true that the names for the days of the week in modern English have all been adapted from ancient mythologies. But in Greek, things are very different. Only three days have names in Greek: Paraskevi, the Day of Preparation for the Sabbath; Savvato, the Sabbath day; and Kyriake, the Lord's Day. After the Lord's Day, the days of the week are merely numbered: Deutera, the Second Day (Monday); Trete, the Third Day (Tuesday) and so on. In the Greek of the New Testament as well as in modern Greek to this day, there is no confusion regarding the Judeo-Christian origins of the names for the days of the week.
Христос воскресе!!!
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