Sunday is the eighth day. As a spiritual provision of our faith, does the eighth day ever end? Is the eighth day heaven or represents heaven and so never ends?
Sunday is the eighth day. As a spiritual provision of our faith, does the eighth day ever end? Is the eighth day heaven or represents heaven and so never ends?
Psalm 117:24 This is the day which the Lord has made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.
The eighth day represents the Resurrection and never ends. Saint Basil the Great (from Homily II of the Nine Homilies of Hexameron):
A day of darkness for those who are worthy of darkness. No; this day without evening, without succession and without end is not unknown to Scripture, and it is the day that the Psalmist calls the eighth day, because it is outside this time of weeks. Thus whether you call it day, or whether you call it eternity, you express the same idea. Give this state the name of day; there are not several, but only one. If you call it eternity still it is unique and not manifold. Thus it is in order that you may carry your thoughts forward towards a future life, that Scripture marks by the word one the day which is the type of eternity, the first fruits of days, the contemporary of light, the holy Lord’s day honoured by the Resurrection of our Lord. And the evening and the morning were one day.
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