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Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.
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Page 40
Chapter LXIX.
But we wish to show that His instantaneous bodily disappearance from the cross was not better fitted to serve the purposes of the whole economy of salvation (than His remaining upon it was). For the mere letter and narrative of the events which happened to Jesus do not present the whole view of the truth. For each one of them can be shown, to those who have an intelligent apprehension of Scripture, to be a symbol of something else. Accordingly, as His crucifixion contains a truth, represented in the words, "I am crucified with Christ," and intimated also in these, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world;" [3384] and as His death was necessary, because of the statement, "For in that He died, He died unto sin once," [3385] and this, "Being made conformable to His death," [3386] and this, "For if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him:" [3387] so also His burial has an application to those who have been made conformable to His death, who have been both crucified with Him, and have died with Him; as is declared by Paul, "For we were buried with Him by baptism, and have also risen with Him." [3388] These matters, however, which relate to His burial, and His sepulchre, and him who buried Him, we shall expound at greater length on a more suitable occasion, when it will be our professed purpose to treat of such things. But, for the present, it is sufficient to notice the clean linen in which the pure body of Jesus was to be enwrapped, and the new tomb which Joseph had hewn out of the rock, where "no one was yet lying," [3389] or, as John expresses it, "wherein was never man yet laid." [3390]
[3384] Cf. Gal. vi. 14.
[3385] Rom. vi. 10.
[3386] Phil. iii. 10.
[3387] 2 Tim. ii. 11.
[3388] Cf. Rom. vi. 4.
[3389] Luke xxiii. 53, ouk en oupo oudeis keimenos.
[3390] John xix. 41, en ho oudepo oudeis etethe.
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