paul on weekly collections mark gregory foster writes concerning corinthians the idea was introduced to me once that the reason paul wanted the corinthians to lay aside money for the collection on the first day of the week was that this was when they received their weekly wages but the ancient romans did not observe a seven day week unless a man was working for a jewish employer he is unlikely to have been paid on the first day of a seven day week nor would a jewish employer have kept his wages over the week end see lev dt yours james kiefer
