In his stunning exploration of Revelation, A Rebirth of Images, Austin Farrer explains the calendrical arrangement of the book. Revelation is arranged, Farrer argues, in six days, beginning with the Easter Christ and ending with the “Advent, the Rider on the White Horse, the victor of the great battle” (67). These are the first and sixth days of John's week, and so the Christ of Revelation is the Christ of Sunday and Friday.

That, Farrer reminds us, is who Christ always is: “For Sunday and Friday are the days of Christ. On Friday he won the victory of the cross over all ‘principalities and powers,' demons and men: and on Friday he returns to conquer in the visible sphere, as he already has in the invisible. On Sunday he rose, and on Sunday St John, in the spirit, beholds the Resurrection and the Life” (68).

Farrer elaborates by noting how the Christ of Friday and Sunday fulfills creation: “The Christ of Sunday and Friday is the beginning and the end of the work of God, the Alpha and the Omega, a St John sees this to be prefigured in the story of Genesis. For the noblest of the works were the first and the last, and each of them most evidently the type of Christ. The fist work was the light which first conquered chaos and darkness, not the light which, as sun, moon, and stars, became part of the world, but an elemental light more ancient than heaven or earth, the true spiritual ‘candle of the Lord.' And the last work was Adam, made in God's own image and likeness. How evident it is, then, that Sunday and Friday belong to Christ. St John's Gospel has no other doctrine: it begins with the Word which said, ‘Let there be Light,' which Word is God the Son, and the light is his incarnation. And it leads us on to a great Friday when Christ conquered death as a new Adam, hailed by Pilate with the words ‘Behold the Man' and ‘Behold your King.' From a garden he went to his passion, and in a garden St Magdalen saw him after it, as it had been a gardener, such as unfallen Adam was” (68).

Because the Messiah is the Christ of Sunday and Friday, Christians honor those days, but not in that order: “It is the Sunday which follows the Friday, the Resurrection which follows the Passion, the eighth, not the first day of Holy Week that they revere” (69).