Summary and Conclusion
The most reasons why there are many dispute and different
interpretations of the text 1 Cor. 16:2, especially the phrase the “first day
of the week”. They are caused by different ways to approach this biblical text.
Firstly is interpreting this biblical passage beyond their context, and try to
adopt the Christian culture about keeping Sunday as a day of worship. Secondly
is to read more into the passage than what is there. Thirdly is to do not
consider the interpretations to the other passages. From the analysis of the
grammatical and syntactical, and intertextuality the of the text, we can
conclude that meaning of the “first day of the week” is refer to Sunday as the
first day of the week, since in Greek Sabbath also means a week.
However the text of 1 Cor. 16:2 does not mention worship but
asks that members set aside at home (παρ' έαυτω) an amount for the Jerusalem
collection on the first day of the week. The
first day of the week was not day of worship to early Christians. They lay
aside offering to the saints in Jerusalem to relief them from poverty.
Theology Application
The text plainly doesn’t teach christian conducted a regular
meeting on Sunday since the collecting of the offering to aid the saint in
Jerusalem was done at home. One can understand that the text does not prove a
change of day of worship for Christian from sabbath to Sunday.
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