11-25-2003, 11:10 PM
Shlama lukhon,
If there has ever been a dispute regarding the day of the week Meshikha was crucified, I think this can help confirm a Friday crucifixion:
We read in the Gospels (Mattai 27:62) from the Aramaic (Akhan Paul???s English)
???And on the next day, which was after the sunset, gathered the Chief priests and the Pharisees???.???
This verse comes right after the Crucifixion and Burial narrative that occurred on the same day beginning with Mattai 27:1 ???and when it was morning???
The word ???sunset??? in verse 62 is actually ???arubta??? which shares the same root with the Hebrew ???erev??? meaning ???evening??? as in Gen 1:5 ??? there was evening and there was morning??????
This day (the day Meshikha was crucified) came to be known as ???evening??? or ???arubta??? due to the passion and sufferings of Meshikha and also because that day???s daylight was interrupted by actual darkness for 3 hours during the crucifixion (Mattai 27:45). The day became associated so much with the darkness, the early evening that occurred, and the sufferings of Meshikha that early Christians renamed the entire day of Friday or the 6th day of the week. To this day the Church of the East???s (and most semitic Christians) calendar considers Friday ???arubta??? instead of the normal ???6th of seven??? like the rest of the days of the week.
What???s interesting is that Hebrew speakers, while they share the names of the days with their Aramaic-speaking brothers, do not call Friday ???evening??? or ???ha-erev??? as it would be in Hebrew. Rather they simply call Friday ???day 6???. This is because historically, for most Hebrew speakers, Friday does not have this special ???darkness and suffering of Meshikha??? meaning.
Now, I have found another ancient Christian group that shares this reckoning for the days of the week. Armenians, who do not speak a Semitic language, have also renamed Friday in a very similar fashion. Armenians have almost always maintained their independent apostolic church (apart from the COE, Orthodox and Roman Catholic) from ancient times. Yet early on, they must have been introduced to the Friday/Crucifixion truth because it has become imbedded in their language.
The days of the Week in the Armenian language is a combination of native Armenian and Aramaic words. Beyond this, very little between the two languages is similar. Nor are the languages related. Monday is ???erku-shabti??? or ???2nd of seven??? and so one until Thursday which is ???hink-shabti??? or ???5th of Seven???. But Seven or ???Shabti??? is not their word for the number ???seven??? or their word ???seventh??? or even their word for ???week???. But when you get to Friday, one would expect it to be ???6th of Seven??? but its not. They call Friday ???erbat??? and they don???t even know why because the word is not Armenian.
They have simply transliterated an Aramaic word for ???evening??? which became so closely associated with the darkness and sufferings of Meshikha that occurred on the day he was crucified.
-Dean
If there has ever been a dispute regarding the day of the week Meshikha was crucified, I think this can help confirm a Friday crucifixion:
We read in the Gospels (Mattai 27:62) from the Aramaic (Akhan Paul???s English)
???And on the next day, which was after the sunset, gathered the Chief priests and the Pharisees???.???
This verse comes right after the Crucifixion and Burial narrative that occurred on the same day beginning with Mattai 27:1 ???and when it was morning???
The word ???sunset??? in verse 62 is actually ???arubta??? which shares the same root with the Hebrew ???erev??? meaning ???evening??? as in Gen 1:5 ??? there was evening and there was morning??????
This day (the day Meshikha was crucified) came to be known as ???evening??? or ???arubta??? due to the passion and sufferings of Meshikha and also because that day???s daylight was interrupted by actual darkness for 3 hours during the crucifixion (Mattai 27:45). The day became associated so much with the darkness, the early evening that occurred, and the sufferings of Meshikha that early Christians renamed the entire day of Friday or the 6th day of the week. To this day the Church of the East???s (and most semitic Christians) calendar considers Friday ???arubta??? instead of the normal ???6th of seven??? like the rest of the days of the week.
What???s interesting is that Hebrew speakers, while they share the names of the days with their Aramaic-speaking brothers, do not call Friday ???evening??? or ???ha-erev??? as it would be in Hebrew. Rather they simply call Friday ???day 6???. This is because historically, for most Hebrew speakers, Friday does not have this special ???darkness and suffering of Meshikha??? meaning.
Now, I have found another ancient Christian group that shares this reckoning for the days of the week. Armenians, who do not speak a Semitic language, have also renamed Friday in a very similar fashion. Armenians have almost always maintained their independent apostolic church (apart from the COE, Orthodox and Roman Catholic) from ancient times. Yet early on, they must have been introduced to the Friday/Crucifixion truth because it has become imbedded in their language.
The days of the Week in the Armenian language is a combination of native Armenian and Aramaic words. Beyond this, very little between the two languages is similar. Nor are the languages related. Monday is ???erku-shabti??? or ???2nd of seven??? and so one until Thursday which is ???hink-shabti??? or ???5th of Seven???. But Seven or ???Shabti??? is not their word for the number ???seven??? or their word ???seventh??? or even their word for ???week???. But when you get to Friday, one would expect it to be ???6th of Seven??? but its not. They call Friday ???erbat??? and they don???t even know why because the word is not Armenian.
They have simply transliterated an Aramaic word for ???evening??? which became so closely associated with the darkness and sufferings of Meshikha that occurred on the day he was crucified.
-Dean