Mt 28:1—“After the sabbath”

Gr., Ὀψὲ . . . σαββάτων (o·pseʹ. . . sab·baʹton)

J. H. Thayer, in A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, fourth ed., Edinburgh (1901), p. 471, says: “ὀψὲ σαββάτων, the sabbath having just passed, after the sabbath, i.e. at the early dawn of the first day of the week—(an interpretation absolutely demanded by the added specification τῇ ἐπιφωσκ κτλ [tei e·pi·pho·sk(ouʹ sei) . . . , “when it was growing light” etc.]), Mt. xxviii. 1.” Also, Zorell^Gr, column 969, says: “post [after]: ὀψὲ σαββάτων Mt 28:1 ‘post sabbatum’ [‘after the sabbath’].” Moreover, Bauer, p. 601, says under ὀψέ: “after ὀψὲ σαββάτων after the Sabbath Mt 28:1.”