"Upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together..."
In biblical Greek and Hebrew, the word "week" always appears to be translated from some form of the word sabbath, so there is no reason to believe that verses such as Acts 20:7 or 1 Corinthians 16:2 are heretical mistranslations stemming from Roman Catholic influence.
Comparison to other verses, such as Genesis 29:27, Leviticus 12:5, and John 20:19, lays to rest the idea that the earliest Christians met only on the seventh day sabbath, or only the high feast days, which were high sabbaths.
Something else to consider when tempted to translate the word week as sabbath (in the sense of the seventh-day or feast day) is that some high sabbaths (Feasts of the Lord) consisted of only one day, so in addition to there being no first day of the seventh day sabbath, there is also no "first day" of the sabbath for one-day feasts, but there is always a first day of the week.
The word "Sunday" may be pagan in origin, but the first day of the week is not a cursed heretical day in and of itself. In Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:12, we have the testimony of Luke and Paul as well as the context and language of the text in declaring the earliest believers met regularly on the first day of the week, which was the day of our lord Jesus' resurrection, which was foretold in the Feast of First Fruits, which always falls on the first day of the week.
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