***What is it about simple Greek words that give you such a problem in understanding? ***
I guess these old boys got it wrong also. After all, Greek is their first language!
http://www.goholycross.org/studies/studies_worship.html
http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith8504
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/greekorthodox/a/easterdates.htm
Next thing we know someone will start posting that Christ died on a “torture stake” and not on the Cross.
Yes....as a matter of fact....they do have it wrong!
Let's see what the Apostle John had taught all of his disciples to do during this very holy observance.
Here is what Eusebius records that Polycrates wrote: We observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away. For in Asia also great lights have fallen asleep, which shall rise again on the day of the Lord's coming, when he shall come with glory from heaven, and shall seek out all the saints. Among these are Philip, one of the twelve apostles, who fell asleep in Hierapolis; and his two aged virgin daughters, and another daughter, who lived in the Holy Spirit and now rests at Ephesus; and, moreover, John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord, and, being a priest, wore the sacerdotal plate. He fell asleep at Ephesus. And Polycarp in Smyrna, who was a bishop and martyr; and Thraseas, bishop and martyr from Eumenia, who fell asleep in Smyrna. Why need I mention the bishop and martyr Sagaris who fell asleep in Laodicea, or the blessed Papirius, or Melito, the Eunuch who lived altogether in the Holy Spirit, and who lies in Sardis, awaiting the episcopate from heaven, when he shall rise from the dead ? All these observed the fourteenth day of the passover according to the Gospel, deviating in no respect, but following the rule of faith. And I also, Polycrates, the least of you all, do according to the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have closely followed. For seven of my relatives were bishops; and I am the eighth. And my relatives always observed the day when the people put away the leaven. I, therefore, brethren, who have lived sixty-five years in the Lord, and have met with the brethren throughout the world, and have gone through every Holy Scripture, am not affrighted by terrifying words. For those greater than I have said ' We ought to obey God rather than man'...I could mention the bishops who were present, whom I summoned at your desire; whose names, should I write them, would constitute a great multitude. And they, beholding my littleness, gave their consent to the letter, knowing that I did not bear my gray hairs in vain, but had always governed my life by the Lord Jesus. (Eusebius. Church History. Book V, Chapter 24).
The Apostle John, of course being the last living Apostle, had continued to teach his followers the observance of Passover and there is nothing here mentioned by Polycrates about observing any Sunday morning resurrection. Polycrates wrote late in the second century. I would have thought that the Church of God established by Our Lord and His Apostles would have been recognizing the sanctity of Sunday by this time. It is obvious from Church History that they did not.....because "IT" was not!