Reference: Day
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The day is distinguished into natural, civil, and artificial. The natural day is one revolution of the earth on its axis. The civil day is that, the beginning and the end of which are determined by the custom of any nation. The Hebrews began their day in the evening, Le 23:32; the Babylonians at sunrise; and we begin at midnight. The artificial day is the time of the sun's continuance above the horizon, which is unequal according to different seasons, on account of the obliquity of the equator. The sacred writers generally divide the day into twelve hours. The sixth hour always ends at noon throughout the year; and the twelfth hour is the last hour before sunset. But in summer, all the hours of the day were longer than in winter, while those of night were shorter. See HOURS, and THREE.
The word day is also often put for an indeterminate period, for the time of Christ's coming in the flesh, and of his second coming to judgment, Isa 2:12; Eze 13:5; Joh 11:24; 1Th 5:2. The prophetic "day" usually is to be understood as one year, and the prophetic "year" or "time" as 360 days, Eze 4:6. Compare the three and half years of Da 7:25, with the forty-two months and twelve hundred and sixty days of Re 11:2-3.
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"I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day."
But as for the court which is outside the sanctuary, pass it over. Do not measure it; for it has been given to the Gentiles, and for forty-two months they will trample the holy city under foot. And I will authorize My two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.
Easton
The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Le 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps 55:17). "The heat of the day" (1Sa 11:11; Ne 7:3) was at our nine o'clock, and "the cool of the day" just before sunset (Ge 3:8). Before the Captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches, (1) from sunset to midnight (La 2:19); (2) from midnight till the cock-crowing (Jg 7:19); and (3) from the cock-crowing till sunrise (Ex 14:24). In the New Testament the division of the Greeks and Romans into four watches was adopted (Mr 13:35). (See Watches.)
The division of the day by hours is first mentioned in Da 3:6,15; 4:19; 5:5. This mode of reckoning was borrowed from the Chaldeans. The reckoning of twelve hours was from sunrise to sunset, and accordingly the hours were of variable length (Joh 11:9).
The word "day" sometimes signifies an indefinite time (Ge 2:4; Isa 22:5; Heb 3:8, etc.). In Job 3:1 it denotes a birthday, and in Isa 2:12; Ac 17:31; 2Ti 1:18, the great day of final judgment.
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Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn.
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."
do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,
Fausets
Reckoned from sunset to sunset by the Hebrew. Ge 1:5; "the evening and the morning were the first day." 2Co 11:25; "a night and a day." Da 8:14 margin. So our fortnight equals fourteen nights. "Evening, morning, and noon" (Ps 55:17) are the three general divisions. Fuller divisions are: dawn, of which the several stages appear in Christ's resurrection (Mr 16:2; Joh 20:1; Re 22:16, "the bright and morning star" answering to Aijeleth Shahar, "gazelle of the morning," Psalm 22 title; Mt 28:1; Lu 24:1); sunrise; heat of the day; the two noons (tsaharaim, Hebrew; Ge 43:16); the cool of the day (Ge 3:8); evening (divided into early evening and late evening after actual sunset).
Between the two evenings the paschal lamb and the evening sacrifice used to be offered. "Hour" is first mentioned Da 3:6,15; 5:5. The Jews learned from the Babylonians the division of the day into twelve parts (Joh 11:9). Ahaz introduced the sun dial from Babylon (Isa 38:8). The usual times of prayer were the third, sixth, and ninth hours (Da 6:10; Ac 2:15; 3:1). "Give us day by day our daily bread" (Lu 11:3); i.e., bread for the day as it comes (epiousion arton).
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After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre.
After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre.
So, very soon after sunrise on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb;
So, very soon after sunrise on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb;
give us day after day our bread for the day;
give us day after day our bread for the day;
And, on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared.
And, on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared.
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.
On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.
For this is not intoxication, as you suppose, it being only the third hour of the day.
For this is not intoxication, as you suppose, it being only the third hour of the day.
One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
"I Jesus have sent My angel for him solemnly to declare these things to you among the Churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.
"I Jesus have sent My angel for him solemnly to declare these things to you among the Churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.
Hastings
Morish
Besides the ordinary application of the word, it is used in scripture as defining different periods. The term 'that day' often occurs in the Prophets and in the N.T. referring to the Messiah's day, sometimes connected with judgement and sometimes with blessing, the context of each passage showing its application. The subject generally may be divided into:
1. the days of the Law and the Prophets, which extended from the giving of the law until the coming of the Messiah. "At the end of these days God has spoken to us in His Son," as Heb 1:2 should read. This introduced Messiah's Day. But He was rejected and His reign postponed. In the meantime:
2. The Day of Grace supervenes, during which the church is being called out. The Lord Jesus wrought out redemption, ascended to heaven, and sent down the Holy Spirit. Of this time He said "In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you" Joh 14:20 cf. also Joh 16:23,26. The present period is referred to as man's day. 1Co 4:3, margin. These are also 'the last days' in which scoffers would come. 2Pe 3:3; Jude 1:18.
3. Messiah's Day, when He returns in judgement and then to reign. "The day is at hand." Ro 13:12; Heb 10:25. "The day shall declare it." 1Co 3:13. It is also called 'the last day.' Joh 6:39-51; 11:24; 12:48. And it is called 'the great day.' Elijah will come before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Mal 4:5. The kings of the earth will be gathered to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Re 16:14. It is also called 'the day of Christ' and 'the day of Jesus Christ.' Php 1:6,10; 2:16; cf. 1Co 1:8; 2Co 1:14.
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And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day. For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day." read more. Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven. They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, 'I have come down out of Heaven'?" "Do not thus find fault among yourselves," replied Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day. It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me. No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father. "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages. I am the bread of Life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died. Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die. I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."
"I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day."
He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name He will give you.
At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,
The night is far advanced, and day is about to dawn. We must therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness, and clothe ourselves with the armour of Light.
who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
the true character of each individual's work will become manifest. For the day of Christ will disclose it, because that day is soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality of every one's work-- the fire is the thing which will test it.
I however am very little concerned at undergoing your scrutiny, or that of other men; in fact I do not even scrutinize myself.
For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.
so that you may be men of transparent character, and may be blameless, in preparation for the day of Christ,
holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
in whom we have our redemption--the forgiveness of our sins.
has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the pre-destined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the Ages.
not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.
But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will come who make a mock at everything--men governed only by their own passions,
how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."
For they are the spirits of demons working marvels--spirits that go out to control the kings of the whole earth, to assemble them for the battle which is to take place on the great day of God, the Ruler of all.
Smith
Day.
The variable length of the natural day at different seasons led in the very earliest times to the adoption of the civil day (or one revolution of the sun) as a standard of time. The Hebrews reckoned the day from evening to evening,
deriving it from
the evening and the morning were the first day. The Jews are supposed, like the modern Arabs, to have adopted from an early period minute specifications of the parts of the natural day. Roughly, indeed, they were content to divide it into "morning, evening and noonday,"
but when they wished for greater accuracy they pointed to six unequal parts, each of which was again subdivided. These are held to have been --
1. "the dawn."
2. "Sunrise."
3. "Heat of the day," about 9 o'clock.
4. "The two noons,"
Ge 43:16; De 28:29
5. "The cool (lit. wind) of the day," before sunset,
so called by the Persians to this day.
6. "Evening." Before the captivity the Jews divided the night into three watches,
viz. the first watch, lasting till midnight,
the "middle watch," lasting till cockcrow,
and the "morning watch," lasting till sunrise.
In the New Testament we have allusions to four watches, a division borrowed from the Greeks and Romans. These were --
1. From twilight till 9 o/clock,
Mr 11:11; Joh 20:19
2. Midnight, from 9 till 12 o'clock,
3 Macc 5:23.
4. Till daybreak.
Joh 18:28
The word held to mean "hour" is first found in
Perhaps the Jews, like the Greeks, learned from the Babylonians the division of the day into twelve parts. In our Lord's time the division was common.
Joh 11:9
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So He came into Jerusalem and into the Temple; and after looking round upon everything there, the hour being now late He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn.
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.
On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!"
Watsons
DAY. The Hebrews, in conformity with the Mosaic law, reckoned the day from evening to evening. The natural day, that is, the portion of time from sunrise to sunset, was divided by the Hebrews, as it is now by the Arabians, into six unequal parts. These divisions were as follows:
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So, very soon after sunrise on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb;
"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.
For this is not intoxication, as you suppose, it being only the third hour of the day.
One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
The next day, while they were still on their journey and were getting near the town, about noon Peter went up on the house-top to pray.