The pre-A.D. 70 Date of Revelation's Composition (Part 2)
The pre-A.D. 70 Date of Revelation's Composition (Part 2) Below is the fourth of multiple excerpts of commentary on the Book of Revelation from The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell. [In this excerpt, Russell continues his enumeration of internal evidence that the Book of Revelation was written before A.D. 70, when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed by the Romans. See previous post for Russell's first point of evidence.] "2. After the fullest consideration of the remarkable [Greek] expression te kuriake hemera ( the Lord’s day), in Rev. i. 10 [Rev. 1:10] , we are satisfied that it cannot refer to the first day of the week, but that those interpreters are right who understand it to refer to the period called elsewhere ‘the [great judgment] day of the Lord. ’ There is no example in the New Testament of the first day of the week (Sunday) being called ‘the Lord’s day,’ or ‘the day ...