says one? Because you cannot regulate the day
and night to have what the Saviour calls twelve hours in the day,
without establishing the time from the centre of the earth, the equator,
where, at the beginning of the sacred year, the sun rises and sets at 6
o'clock. At _this_ time, while the sun is at the summer solstice, the
inhabitants of the north pole have no night, while at this same time at
the south it is about all night, therefore the inhabitants of the earth
have no other right time to commence their twenty-four hour day, than
beginning at 6 o'clock in the evening. God said to Moses '_from even,
unto even, shall you celebrate your Sabbath_.' Then of course the next
day must begin where the Sabbath ended. History shows that the Jews
obeyed and commenced their days at 6 o'clock in the evening. Now then we
will try to investigate the main argument by which these authors, and
thousands of others say the Sabbath was changed. The first is in John
xx: 19, "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week
when the doors where shut where the disciples were assembled _for fear
of the Jews_ (mark it) came Jesus and stood in their midst, and said
peace be unto you." Here we understand this to be the same day of the
resurrection. On that same day he travelled with the two disciples to
Emans, sixty furlongs (7-1/2 miles), and they constrained him to abide
with them, for it was toward evening and the _day was far spent_. Luke
xxiv: 29. After this the disciples travelled the 7-1/2 miles back to
Jerusalem and soon after they found the disciples, the Saviour, as above
stated, was in their midst. Now it cannot be disputed but what this was
the evening after the resurrection, for Jesus rose in the morning, some
ten or eleven hours after the first day had commenced. Then the evening
of the first day was passing away, and therefore the evening brought to
view in [33]the text was the close of the first day or the commencing
of the second. McKnight's translation says, "in the evening of that
day." Purver's translation says, "the evening of that day on the first
after the Sabbath." Further, wherever the phrase first day of the week,
occurs in the New Testament, the word day is in _italics_, showing that
it is not the original; but supplied by translators. Again, it is
asserted that Jesus met with his disciples the next first day. See 26v:
"And _after_ eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with
them, then cam