History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

epresenting John as writing to Christians sixtyfive
years after the death of Christ, that the vision
which he had just had, was seen by him in the
gospel dispensation; as though it were possible for
them to be ignorant of the fact that if he had a
vision at all he must have it in the existing
dispensation.
Nor can the second answer be admitted as the
truth. For while it is true that John might have a
vision CONCERNING the day of Judgment, it is
impossible that he should have a vision ON that
day when it was yet future. If it be no more than an
absurdity to represent John as dating his vision in
the isle of Patmos, on the gospel dispensation, it
becomes a positive untruth, if he is made to say
that he was in vision at Patmos on the day of
Judgment.
The third answer, that the Lord’s Day is the
first day of the week, is now almost universally
received as the truth. The text under examination is
brought forward with an air of triumph as
completing the temple of first-day sacredness, and
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