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To: lightman

Post #30 disagrees.


32 posted on 04/17/2019 6:36:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

It all depends on the definition/delineation of when a day begins.

In the Jewish understanding of the first century—and even to this day—the new day begins at sundown.

By the way this is the understanding of “day” in the Orthodox Church and in traditional Catholocism. A Feast—such as Christmas—begins at sundown. Hence “Christmas Eve” services.

Sunday begins with Vespers on Saturday evening.


36 posted on 04/17/2019 6:53:14 AM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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