Nights in the heart of the earth?

  • Thread starter Thread starter rstrats
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
R

rstrats

Guest
  1. The Messiah said that three nights would be involved with His time in the “heart of the earth”.
  2. There are some who believe that the crucifixion took place on the 6th day of the week with the resurrection taking place on the 1st day of the week.
  3. Of those, there are some who believe that the “heart of the earth” is referring to the tomb.
  4. However, those two beliefs allow for only 2 nights to be involved.
  5. To account for the discrepancy, some of the above say that the Messiah was using common figure of speech/colloquial language of the time, i.e., that it is was common to forecast or say that a day or a night would be involved with an event when no part of the day or no part of the night could occur.
  6. In order for someone to legitimately say that it was common, they would have to know of more that 1 example to make that assertion.
I wonder if anyone knows of examples to support the idea of commonality?
 
I don’t see where the link provides any examples which show that it was common to forecast or say that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could have occurred. What do you have in mind?
 
Last edited:
The reply by Athanasius mentions passages in Esther (4:16 and 5:1) where the expression “three days and three nights” are shown to be equivalent to “on the third day.” Elsewhere (Leviticus 19:6), it is shown that “the third day” refers to the day after tomorrow.
 
Todd_Easton,

I still don’t see how the Esther account shows that at least a portion of three night times and at least a portion of three daytimes could not have been envolved with the fast. Please explain how it shows that.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top