30. It is said then in the Psalms, “I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, because the Lord sustained me.”³³⁶⁴

3364 Ps. iii. 5

Again, in another place, “Because of the wretchedness of the needy and the groaning of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord.”³³⁶⁵

3365 Ps. xii. 5

And elsewhere, as we have said above, “O Lord, thou hast brought my soul out of hell; Thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.”³³⁶⁶

3366 Ps. xxx. 3

And in another place, “Because Thou hast turned and quickened me, and brought me out of the deep of the earth again.”³³⁶⁷

3367 Ps. lxxi. 10

In the 87th Psalm He is most evidently spoken of: “He became as a man without help, free among the dead.”³³⁶⁸

3368 Ps. lxxxviii. 4, 5

It is not said “a man,” but “as a man.” For in that He descended into hell, He was “as a man:” but He was “free among the dead,” because He could not be detained by death. And therefore in the one nature the power of human weakness, in the other the power of divine majesty is exhibited. The Prophet Hosea also speaks most manifestly of the third day in this wise, “After two days He will heal us; but on the third day we shall rise and shall live in His presence.”³³⁶⁹

3369 Hosea vi. 2

This he says in the person of those who, rising with Him on the third day, are recalled from death to life. And they are the same persons who say, “On the third day we shall rise again, and shall live in His presence.” But Isaiah says plainly, “Who brought forth from the earth the great Shepherd of the sheep.”³³⁷⁰

3370 Heb. xiii. 20

Then, that the women were to see His resurrection, while the Scribes and Pharisees and the people disbelieved, this also Isaiah foretold in these words, “Ye women, who come from beholding, come: for it is a people that hath no understanding.”³³⁷¹

3371 Isa. xxvii. 11, LXX.

But as to the women who are related to have gone to the sepulchre after the resurrection, and to have sought Him without finding, as Mary Magdalene, who is related to have come to the sepulchre before it was light, and not finding Him, to have said, weeping, to the angels who were there, “They have taken away the Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him”³³⁷²

3372 John xx. 13

—even this is foretold in the Canticles: “On my bed I sought Him Whom my soul loveth; I sought Him in the night, and found Him not.”³³⁷³

3373 Cant. iii. 1

Of those also who found Him, and held Him by the feet, it is foretold, in the same book, “I will hold Him Whom my soul loveth, and will not let Him go.”³³⁷⁴

3374 Cant. iii. 4

Take these passages, a few of many; for being intent on brevity we cannot heap together more.

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