Why Sunday

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

Acts 20:7 looks poorly translated. See here:

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/acts/20-7.htm

Ἐν δὲ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων

En de mia te ton sabbaton

It seems to read better simply as "Then, on one of the sabbaths...".

1 Corinthians 16:2 looks like it could be re-translated, too. See here:

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/16-2.htm

κατὰ μίαν σαββάτου

kata mian sabbatou

It seems to read better simply as "According to each sabbath...".

In both cases, there is no word for "day", either in Acts 20:7 or in 1 Corinthians 16:2. Translators are reading the mia as an ordinal here, then reading sabbatos as a metonym for "week", thus thinking mia refers to the first of the week, which must refer to the first day. But that seems an overwrought attempt at defending (or perhaps concealing) an anti-Sabbath ideology that is otherwise absent from the Covenants of the Holy Scriptures, Old and New.