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| Chapter IX.—Reference to the history of Christ.
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Chapter IX.—Reference to the history
of Christ.
Stop your ears, therefore, when
any one speaks to you at variance with787
| 787 Literally, “apart from.” |
Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, and was also of Mary;
who was truly born, and did eat and drink. He was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate;
He was truly crucified, and [truly] died, in the sight of beings in
heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. He was also truly raised from the dead, His
Father quickening Him, even as after the same manner His Father will so
raise up us who believe in Him by Christ Jesus, apart from whom we do not
possess the true life.
Stop your ears, therefore, when
any one speaks to you at variance with788
| 788 Literally, “apart from.” | Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, who was descended from David, and was also of
Mary; who was truly begotten of God and of the Virgin, but not after the
same manner. For indeed God and man are not the same. He truly assumed a
body; for “the Word was made flesh,”789
and lived upon earth without sin. For says He, “Which of
you convicteth me of sin?”790
He did
in reality both eat and drink. He was crucified and died under Pontius
Pilate. He really, and not merely in appearance, was crucified, and died,
in the sight of beings in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. By
those in heaven I mean such as are possessed of incorporeal natures; by
those on earth, the Jews and Romans, and such persons as were present at
that time when the Lord was crucified; and by those under the earth, the
multitude that arose along with the Lord. For says the Scripture,
“Many bodies of the saints that slept arose,”791
their graves being opened. He descended,
indeed, into Hades alone, but He arose accompanied by a multitude; and
rent asunder that means792
| 792
Literally, “hedge,” or “fence.” | of
separation which had existed from the beginning of the world, and cast
down its partition-wall. He also rose again in three days, the Father
raising Him up; and after spending forty days with the apostles, He was
received up to the Father, and “sat down at His right hand,
expecting till His enemies are placed under His feet.”793
On the day of the preparation, then, at the
third hour, He received the sentence from Pilate, the Father permitting
that to happen; at the sixth hour He was crucified; at the ninth hour He
gave up the ghost; and before sunset He was buried.794
| 794 Some read, “He was taken down from
the cross, and laid in a new tomb.” | During the Sabbath
He continued under the earth in the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathæa
had laid Him. At the dawning of the Lord’s
day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself,
“As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s
belly, so shall the Son of man also be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth.”795
The day
of the preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the
burial; the Lord’s Day contains the resurrection.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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