This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...sepulchre was open, unguarded and empty, could not be a question of imagination, and the only one that remains is, and which might very easily have been answered, (if Jesus were not actually risen, ) Where has the body been carried to? Mary Magdalene does not remain with the other women, but hastens back, and brings ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...sepulchre was open, unguarded and empty, could not be a question of imagination, and the only one that remains is, and which might very easily have been answered, (if Jesus were not actually risen, ) Where has the body been carried to? Mary Magdalene does not remain with the other women, but hastens back, and brings two men; certainly very judicious in her, but even these men, who had no previous thought about the resurrection, find the grave empty. They go home, the one in a state of confused thought, the other, conceiving there must be something in the resurrection of Jesus, but not mentioning his thoughts to any one. Mary Magdalene remains at the grave, she weeps, she looks into the sepulchre, she perceives the two men in white garments, she does not even reflect, that they were not there before, and they ask her, why she weeps. Without thinking of angels, or of any thing supernatural, and solely engrossed by the loss of the body, which she wishes to take to another sepulchre, in case it was not allowed to remain there, she says, "the body of her Lord is taken away, and she knows not where they have laid him," and she goes away. Is there in this conduct any conception or hope of a resurrection, which could create all this in the brain? 14. "And knew not, that it was Jesus." We must combine three circumstances, in order to explain her not knowing Jesus. In the first place, Mary saw him, as appears from the sixteenth verse, not in front, but sideways, for when he addressed her afterwards by the name of "Mary," she turned herself, and said to him, "Rabboni." Besides, she did not expect to see Jesus, but believed him to be dead, and was so occupied with the sole care of finding the body, that she paid attention to nothi...
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