tween these two.1 — rJj [sc. r\i^f^\ ifc/paaxefapj as it began to dawn} When the period of death had elapsed, our Lord rose as quickly as possible. — tig piav [sc. ftfjupat] on the first day, i.e. the whole day, the first of the week. The first day of the, week had already begun on the preceding evening ; now the day, as opposed to the night, was dawning on that first day. The first remarkable mention of the Lord's day is combined with the resurrection of our Lord. It is generally called jj pia, (the first) with the article : see Mark xvi. 2 ; Luke xxiv. 1 ; John xx. 1, 19 ; Acts xx. 7, and on the other hand 1 Cor. xvi. 2.2 — tra/3/Sarwv, of the days of the week) r^t, x.r.X., came, etc.) Such offices were performed by those who were not con nected by the closest relationship ; so that it is not wonderful that our Lord's mother was not there with them.3
1 In the original the passage runs thus : — " <r»fi3a,ruv — (ra-fifidruv, sabbati — sabbati) habet Lat. nee solus. au.fifia.rov — actfifixruv, lectio media.
In his own Greek New Testament (4to 1734) Bengel has ffa.flfta.ruv — aa.fifia.Tuv, and does not indicate the existence of any various reading. In his App. Grit., however, he writes in loc. : — " accfifixrav utrumque) sabba- thi habet Lat. (passim) et alii. — (I. B.)
Besides Vulg. sabbati, sabbati is read by abc. LA and Syr. read aa.fifia.na. But ABD Orig. l,440c read tra.fij3x.ruv — aotfifixruv with Rec. Text. — ED.
2 In the last instance the omission of the article may be accounted for by the presence of the preposition x,»rx, which, as is frequently the case in similar instances, renders plav axfifixruv anarthrous. See Middleton on the article, who observes also, that if two nouns be in regimen, and if one be anarthrous, the other will be so too ; so that ax-fifixruv, being without the article, causes ft'iav to drop the article, which it otherwise should have. — (I. B.)
3 It seems to be desirable to give the reader here a succinct history of this first Lord's day, framed from a comparison of the Evangelists as insti tuted by Bengel, in such a way. however, as that the arguments are left in their own places to be investigated by the reader. The summary of events which the Harm. Ev., p, 584, etc., exhibits, amounts to this : —
The preparations for anointing Jesus, which had been begun before the Sabbath, having been continued and completed by the women after the end of the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene came to the sepulchre much sooner than the rest of the women ; (for too long a space of time intervenes between the time preceding day -break [John xx. 1] and the rising of the sun [Mark xvi. 2] to admit of our supposing that all the women at one time left home before day, and only reached the tomb at sunrise. Meanwhile the angel sent down from heaven rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulchre, whilst an earthquake accompanied his action, very much to the terror of the