3. The most conclusive argument, however, is drawn from the end that Paul desired to accomplish. He states expressly that his aim in giving his directions was to avoid the necessity of gatherings or collections when he should come. The force of this consideration is evaded by explaining the apostle’s words as meaning “small collections.” But if every Christian had his money laid by at home, whether it were much or little, the “collections” would still have to be made. Each Christian, it is true, would have his sum already made up, and would need to make no personal gathering. But the apostle’s word is much more naturally and fittingly applied to collections on a larger and wider scale. And to effect the apostle’s end, and avoid such collections at his coming, the Corinthians, like the Galatians, were to make a collection every Lord’s day, of what each one at home had set apart or placed aside from the proceeds of his business during the preceding week. In no other way would the moneys needed be in perfect readiness for the apostle. If left in the hands of individuals scattered around, there would be uncertainty about the apostle’s receipt of them, and there would still be trouble in connection with collections on his arrival. But with the moneys already gathered, at the regular weekly meetings, into the common treasury of the church, and there waiting his coming, his aim is satisfactorily accomplished. The only remaining passage is Rev. 1:10: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.” It has been admitted by opponents of the first-day Sabbath, that if, by the Lord’s day in this passage, the first day of the week is meant, their cause is lost. And lost it is; for no other day can be meant. Three interpretations have been given of John’s words:— 1. By the Lord’s day is meant the day of Judgment. Wetstein, in his elaborate edition of the Greek New Testament, in the year 1752, first advanced this view. His comment is; “Hunc diem judicii vidit in spiritu; _i. e._, prævidit representatum.” “John saw in Spirit the day of Judgment; that is, he foresaw it represented.” The phrase, “the day of the Lord,” does mean in the Scriptures the day of Judgment. But that phrase is different from the one here employed. The literal rendering of the former is, “the day of the Lord.” The literal rendering of the other is, “the dominical day.” This was not a day foreseen, but a day on which John was in the Spirit—a day of weekly recurrence which the Lord claims as his own, as he claims the dominical supper.