IT IS JOY TO THE JUST TO DO JUDGMENT: BUT DESTRUCTION SHALL BE TO THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.-Prov. xxi. 15. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Eusebius and Jerome regard the Arimathea of as representing the ancient Arimathæa. * Ramleh Joseph as the same place as the Ramathaim of is in north latitude thirty-one degrees fifty-nine Samuel, and place it near Lydda, or Diospolis. minutes, and east longitude thirty-five degrees Hence it has by some been identified with the exist- twenty-eight minutes, eight miles south-east from ing Ramleh, because of the similarity of the names Joppa, and twenty-four miles north-west from Jerusato that of Ramah (of which Ramathaim is the dual), lem. It lies in the fine undulating plain of Sharon, and because it is near Lydda or Diospolis. Professor upon the eastern side of a broad, low swell, rising from Robinson, however, disputes this conclusion on the a fertile though sandy plain. Like Gaza and Jaffa, following grounds:-1. That Abulfida alleges Ramleh this town is surrounded by olive groves and gardens of to have been built after the time of Mohammed, or vegetables and delicious fruits. Occasional palm about A.D. 716, by Suleiman Abd-al-Malik.-2. That trees are seen, as well as the kharob and the sycaRamah and Ramieh have not the same signification. more. The streets are fine; the houses are of stone, 3. That Ramleh is in a plain, whilst Ramah implies and many of them large and well built. There are a town on a hill. To this it may be answered, that five mosques, two or more of which are said to have Abulfida's statement may mean no more than that been Christian churches; and there is here one of Suleiman rebuilt the town, which had previously the largest Latin convents in Palestine. The place been in ruins, just as Rehoboam and others are said is supposed to contain about 3,000 inhabitants, of to have built many towns which had existed long whom two-thirds are Moslems, and the rest chiefly of before their time; and that the Moslems seldom the Greek church, with a few Armenians. The inbuilt towns but on old sites and out of old materials. habitants carry on some trade in cotton and soap. .... In such cases they retained the old names, or The great caravan road between Egypt and Damasothers resembling them in sound, if not in significa cus, Smyrna, and Constantinople, passes through tion, which may account for the difference between Ramleh, as well as the most frequented road for Ramah and Ramleh. Neither can we assume that a European pilgrims and travellers between Joppa place called Ramah could not be in a plain, unless and Jerusalem. There is a tower of Saracenic arwe are ready to prove that Hebrew proper names chitecture, square, and built with well-hewn stone, were always significant and appropriate. This they about 120 feet high, standing wholly isolated, a little were probably not..... Further, if Arimathæa, by to the west of the town: and bears date 718 A.H. being identified with Ramah, was necessarily in the (A.D. 1310). + Among the plantations surrounding mountains, it could not have been "near Lydda," the town occur, at every step, dry wells, cisterns from which the mountains are seven miles distant. fallen in, and vast vaulted reservoirs, which shew This is alluded to, to shew that Dr. Robinson's that the city must in former times have been upobjections have not entirely destroyed the grounds wards of a league and a half in extent.'-Kitto's Bib. for following the usual course of describing Ramleh | Cyclop., pp. 209-.11. JERUSALEM.-(Continued from Section xxiii. p. 185.) DR. ROBINSON says:- We entered the Yaffa Gate .... and I was in many respects agreeably disappointed.... I had expected to find the houses of the city miserable, the streets filthy, and the population The houses of Jerusalem are substantially built squalid......... The houses are in general better built, and the streets cleaner, than those of Alexan- Palestine is composed: not usually hewn, but broken of the limestone of which the whole of this part of dria, Smyrna, or even Constantinople. Indeed, of into regular forms, and making a solid wall of very all the oriental cities which I visited, Jerusalem, respectable appearance. For the most part there are after Cairo, is the cleanest and most solidly built....no windows next to the street, and the few which The houses are of hewn stone, often large, and furexist for the purposes of light or ventilation are comnished with small domes upon the roofs.... These pletely masked by casements and lattice-work. The domes seem to be not merely for ornament; but are apartments receive their light from the open courts intended, on account of the scarcity of timber, to aid in supporting and strengthening the otherwise flat high enclosure, commonly forming the walls of the within. The ground plot is usually surrounded by a roofs. There is usually one or more over each room house only, but sometimes embracing a small garden in a house.'-Robinson's Bib. Res., Vol. I. p. 326. and some vacant ground.... A large number of houses in Jerusalem are in a dilapidated and ruinous state. Nobody seems to make repairs so long as his dwelling does not absolutely refuse him shelter and safety. If one room tumbles about his ears he removes into another, and permits rubbish and vermin to accumulate as they will in the deserted halls. Tottering staircases are propped to prevent their fall; and when the edifice becomes untenantable, the occupant seeks another a little less ruinous, leaving the wreck to a smaller or more wretched family, or, more probably, to a goatherd and his flock. Habitations which have a very respectable appearance as seen from the street, are often found, upon entering them, to be little better than heaps of ruins. 'JERUSALEM, as seen from mount Olivet, is a plain inclining gently and equably to the east. Once enter its gates, however, and it is found to be full of inequalities. The passenger is always ascending or descending. There are no level streets, and little skill or labour has been employed to remove or diminish the inequalities which nature or time has produced. Houses are built upon mountains of rubbish, which are probably twenty, thirty, or fifty feet above the natural level, and the streets are constructed with the same disregard to convenience, with this difference, that some slight attention is paid to the possibility of carrying off surplus water. The latter are without exception narrow, seldom exceeding eight or ten feet in breadth. The houses often meet, and in some instances a building occupies both sides of the street, which runs under a succession of arches barely high enough to permit an equestrian to pass under them. A canopy of old mats or of planks is suspended over the principal streets when not arched. These covered ways are often pervaded by currents of air when a perfect calm prevails in other places. The principal streets of Jerusalem run nearly at right angles to each other. Very few if any of them bear names among the native population. They are badly paved, being merely laid irregularly with raised stones, with a deep square channel, for beasts of burden, in the middle; but the steepness of the ground contributes to keep them cleaner than in most oriental cities. 'The Turkish governor of the town holds the rank of Pasha, but is responsible to the Pasha of Beirout. The government is somewhat milder than before the period of the Egyptian dominion; but it is said that the Jewish and Christian inhabitants at least have ample cause to regret the change of masters, and the American missionaries lament that change without reserve (Am. Bib. Repos. for 1843). Yet the Moslems reverence the same spots which the Jews and Christians account holy, the holy sepulchre only excepted; and this exception arises from their disbelief that Christ was crucified, or buried, or rose again.'Kitto's Bib. Cyclop., pp. 101-..6. * Professor Robinson says, 'The idea that this Ramah may have been the Arimathea of the New Testa ment, is not in itself improbable; and it may be said too, that these fathers (Eusebius and Jerome) lived near the apostolic age, when a correct tradition might still be extant.'-Biblical Researches in Palestine, Vol. III. p. 44. + 'This ruin is called the "Tower of the Martyrs." The martyrs of Sebaste, in Armenia, are said to have been buried at Ramleh.'-Bible in Palestine, p. 188. VOL. II.] BE YE STEDFAST, ETC.-1 Cor. xv. 58. THE WICKED SHALL BE A RANSOM FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, AND THE TRANSGRESSOR FOR THE UPRIGHT.-Prov. xxi. 18. [479 ༢ མ ོ་ ་ས་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ད་ར་ I WILL INSTRUCT THEE AND TEACH THEE IN THE WAY WHICH THOU SHALT GO: I WILL GUIDE THEE WITH MINE EYE.-Psa. xxxii. 8. SUPPLY OF WATER.* Jerusalem lies in the midst of a rocky limestone read of any want of water within the city; while the region, throughout which fountains and wells are besiegers have often suffered severely, and have been comparatively rare. In the city itself, little if any compelled to bring water from a great distance. living water is known; and in its immediate vicinity During the siege by Titus, when the Jews, pressed are only the three small fountains along the lower with famine, had recourse to the most horrible expepart of the valley of Jehoshaphat [see infra]. Yet dients, and thousands daily died of hunger, there is with all these disadvantages of its position, the no hint that thirst was added to their other sufferings. holy city would appear always to have had a full.... Thus in every age the truth of Strabo's brief supply of water for its inhabitants, both in ancient description has been manifest: "Jerusalem, a rocky, and in modern times. In the numerous sieges to well-enclosed fortress; within well-watered, without which in all ages it has been exposed, we nowhere wholly dry."' CISTERNS. The main dependence of Jerusalem for water at the present day is on its cisterns; and this has probably always been the case...... Almost every private house in Jerusalem, of any size, is understood to have at least one or more cisterns, excavated in the soft limestone rock on which the city is built. The house of Mr. Lanneau, in which we resided, had no less than four cisterns; and as these are but a specimen of the manner in which all the better class of houses are supplied, I subjoin here the dimensions: Length. Breadth. I. 15 Feet. 8 Feet. 4,, II. 8 Depth. 12 Feet. 15, Breadth. Depth. 15 Feet. 20 Length. III. 10 Feet. IV. 30 30 The Latin convent is said to be amply furnished; and in seasons of drought is able to deal out a sufficiency for all the christian inhabitants of the city... A few wells are occasionally found, both in and around the city; but they are either dry, or the water is low and bad.... 'But although the cisterns of Jerusalem thus afford apparently an abundant supply, yet as a matter of convenience and luxury, water is brought during the summer, in considerable quantity, from fountains at a distance from the city.' RESERVOIRS. 'These reservoirs we learned to consider as one of the least doubtful vestiges in all Palestine.... With such reservoirs Jerusalem was abundantly supplied.... Without the walls on the west side of the city are two very large reservoirs, viz., the Upper and Lower Pool, referred to in 2 Ki. xviii. 17; Is. vii. 3; xxii. 9; xxxvi. 2. Upper Pool. This is commonly called by the monks GIHON, and by the natives Birket el-Mamilla. It lies in the basin forming the head of the valley of Hinnom or Gihon, about 700 yards W.N. W. from the Yaffa Gate. The dimensions are as follow: Length from east to west, 316 English feet; breadth at the west end, 200 feet; at the east end, 218 feet; depth at each end, 18 feet. There seemed to be no watercourse to bring water into it, and is in a ruinous state. 'Lower Pool. Is situated in the same valley, southward of the Yaffa Gate. This reservoir is much larger than the upper, and was probably filled from the rains, and from the superfluous waters of the Upper Pool; but is now in ruins. 'Within the walls of the city are three reservoirs, viz.: 1. Pool of Bathsheba. Is a mere pit, and lies just within the Yaffa Gate, on the north side of the street, over against the Castle of David. 2. Pool of Hezekiah. The reservoir now so called, lies some distance N.E. of the Yaffa Gate. It is supplied by a small aqueduct or drain from the Upper Pool, Gihon. 3. Bethesda. Sheep Pool. See Section xxiii. p. 186. FOUNTAINS. The only sources, or rather receptacles, of living water now accessible at Jerusalem, are three in number, and all in the valley of Jehoshaphat. 1. The Well of Nehemiah or Job. A deep well situated just below the junction of the valley of Hinnom with that of Jehoshaphat; the prettiest and most fertile spot around Jerusalem. 2. Siloam. See Section Iv. p. 118. 3. Fountain of the Virgin. See Section xxiii. p. 186, Vol. I., and Section Iv. p. 119, supra. 'Fountain under the Grand Mosk. 'We repaired to the bath, which is supplied from the fountain, and situated in a covered passage leading to one of the western entrances of the enclosure of the mosk. It is called Hummum esh-Shefa," Bath of healing," and apparently much used by those frequenting the Haram. After passing through several apartments, to the parallel street leading to the southern entrance of the mosk; .... in a low arched room, we found two men drawing water from a narrow and deep well.... which proved to be eightytwo and a half feet, or about sixty-five feet below the surface of the ground: having three and a half feet of water. The distance from the well to the area of the mosk is about 135 feet. This fountain naturally reminds us of that mentioned by Tacitus (History, v. 12), and still more strongly of the language of Aristæus, when describing the ancient temple. There seems little reason to doubt that the whole work is artificial; and we may perhaps reasonably conjecture, that it stood in some connection with the ancient fountain of Gihon on the higher ground west of the city. Fountain of Gihon. The piace to which Solomon was brought from Jerusalem to be anointed, was called Gihon; but the direction of it from the city is not specified [ Ki. i. 33, .8]. At a later period we are told of King Hezekiah, that he "stopped the upper water-course [or upper out-flow of the waters] of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David" [2 Chr. xxxii. 30. Comp. also xxxiii. 14]. It is said too that " he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city:... so there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" [2 Chr. xxxii. 3, 41. The son of Sirach also informs us, that "Hezekiah strengthened his city, and brought in water into the midst of it; he dug with iron into the rock, and built fountains for the waters." Josephus mentions also the fountain of Gihon. From all these passages I am unable to arrive at any other conclusion, than that there existed anciently a fountain Gihon on the west of the city, which was stopped" or covered over by Hezekiah, and its waters brought down by subterranean channels into the city. Before that time it would naturally have flowed down through the valley of Gihon or Hinnom; and probably it formed the "brook" which was stopped at the same time.' Robinson's Biblical Researches, Vol. I. pp. 511-..3. The elder of the two men offered to accompany us down. The water, he said, comes through a passage of masonry four or five feet high, from under the Sukhrah, or grand mosk. This passage is entered from the well by a doorway. It leads first through a room of considerable size, arched, and supported by fourteen marble columns with capitals; and terminates in a room under the Sukhrah, about eight or ten feet square, cut out of the rock; which is entered by another similar doorway. Here the water boils up from the rock in a basin at the bottom. He knew of no other passage... from this room, nor from the main passage, by which the water could flow off. * See 'Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine,' Vol. I. pp. 479-514. SHALL THE DUST PRAISE THEE?-Psa. xxx. 9. 480] [VOL. II. MANY SORROWS SHALL BE TO THE WICKED: BUT HE THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, MERCY SHALL COMPASS HIM ABOUT. Psa. xxxii. 10. HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS, WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE.-Psa. xxviii. 2. ZION.* 'MOUNT ZION. Of the hills by which the surface of the city was and is divided into various quarters, that of Sion is the most extensive and important. Its northern part or brow is just south of the street which leads down directly east from the Yaffa Gate, along the bed of the ancient Tyropoon.... On the west and south, Zion rises abruptly from the Valley of Hinnom, which sweeps around its S. W. corner almost at a right angle, descending very rapidly, first towards the south, and then_towards the east, to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. This circumstance renders the S. W. brow of Zion apparently more lofty than any other point connected with the city now or anciently. This we measured approximately. Beginning at the first tower from the S. W. corner of the city wall, we measured 865 feet on a course due south to the brow of Zion. Hence the well of Job or Nehemiah bore S. 58° E. at an angle of depression of 129. Descending now very steeply, still due south, we measured 140 feet at an angle of 11° depression, and 530 feet at an angle of 23°; and came thus to the bottom of the Valley of Hinnom. This gives an elevation above the valley at this point of 154 English feet; which is probably not very far from the truth. The height of Zion above the valley at the S. W. corner of the wall of the city, obtained in the same way, is 101 feet; and that of the ground at the Yaffa Gate, 44 feet. But these differences arise. at least as much from the rapid sinking of the valley, as from the increased height of Zion towards the south. The elevation of the southern brow of Zion above the well of Nehemiah, ... I should estimate at not less than 300 feet. The summit of Zion presents a level tract of considerable extent along its western brow. The eastern side of the hill slopes down steeply, but not in general abruptly, to the Tyropoon, which separates it from the narrow ridge south of the Haram, while at the extreme S. E. part, below Siloam, it extends quite down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Only the northern portion of Zion is included in the modern walls; and this is occupied chiefly by the Jewish quarter, and by the great Armenian convent. Here the eastern side of Zion within the city, adjacent to the Tyropoon after it bends south, is an abrupt precipice of rock from twenty to thirty feet high, lying over against the S. W. part of the area of the Haram eshSherif. This rock is still in its natural state; and probably presents the same appearance as it did in the days of Josephus; though the adjacent valley has doubtless been greatly filled up with rubbish. Without the walls, the level part of Zion is occupied by the christian cemeteries, the house of Caiaphas now an Armenian convent, the Conaculum or Muslim tomb of David, and the adjacent buildings, formerly a Latin convent. The rest of the surface is now tilled; and the city of David has become a ploughed field! The eastern slope is likewise in part cultivated; and paths wind down along the declivity to Siloam, and also more to the right to the bottom of the Valley of Hinnom. The aqueduct from Solomon's Pools, which crosses the Valley of Hinnor at a point N. of the S.W. corner of the city wall, is then carried along and around the S. W. part of Zion above the valley, till it comes out again high up along the eastern slope and enters the city.'.... AKRA. 'North of Zion is the hill of Akra. It is the continuation, or rather the termination, of the broad ridge or swell of land which lies north of the basin at the head of the Valley of Hinnom, and extends into the city, forming its N.W. part. Indeed the N.W. corner of the eity wall is directly on this ridge; from which spot the wall descends immediately towards the N.E., and also, though less rapidly, towards the S.E..... Within the walls, this hill or ridge is separated from Zion, as we have seen, by the upper part of the Tyropcon; which commences as a shallow depression near the Yaffa Gate. The church of the Holy Sepulchret stands directly on the ridge of Akra; and from it and from that neighbourhood there is everywhere a considerable declivity towards the Damascus Gate. The ground also descends eastward from the Latin convent to the same church; and then again by a still steeper declivity from the church to the street along the valley between Akra and the area of the great mosk.' BEZETHA. 'Eastward from the Damascus Gate, and northeasterly from Akra, lies the hill of Bezetha. It is separated from Akra by the rather broad valley which has its commencement in the plain just around the Damascus Gate, and runs in a southerly direc tion till it unites with the Tyropoon below the point of Akra. The western side of Bezetha is nearly or quite as high as Akra; while towards the east it slopes gradually down to the brow of the Valley of Jehoshaphat. The western side, near the gate of Damascus, is very steep; as are also the northern and southern sides in this quarter. Indeed the north wall of the city runs along its northern brow; and the rock on the outside is there precipitous; with a wide and deep trench at its base cut through the rock. The summit of Bezetha is now mostly covered with low buildings, or rather hovels; and on the S.E. part are also dwellings and the ruined church connected with the former nunnery of the house of Anna. But in the N.E. the whole slope within the city walls is occupied by gardens, fields, and olive yards, with comparatively few houses.' MORIAH. The part of Jerusalem lying between the Valley of Jehoshaphat and the valley running down from the Damascus Gate to the Pool of Siloam, may be regarded as one ridge, having on it the separate summits or hills Bezetha and Moriah; and corresponding further down perhaps to the ancient quarter Ophel. Moriah was apparently at first an elevated mound of rock, rising by itself upon this ridge, over against the eastern point of Akra. The temple was placed upon the levelled sunimit of this rock; and then immense walls were erected from its base on the four sides; and the interval between them and the sides filled in with earth, or built up with vaults; so as to form on the top a large area on a level with the temple. This area or court of the ancient temple was probably not very different from the present enclosure of the Haram esh-Sherif. This is now separated from the rocky brow of Zion by the Tyropeon; and from Akra by the valley which comes from the Damascus Gate.... On the north side, Moriah is not now separated from Bezetha by any valley or trench; except in part by the large reservoir commonly called Bethesda [see § 23, p. 186]. The street which leads to the eastern gate of the city passes here; ascending somewhat from the valley near the N. W. corner of the area, having the steep path of Bezetha on the left; and then descending gradually to St. Stephen's Gate.' OPHEL. This is the remainder of the ridge extending south from Moriah to Siloam, between the deep Valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, and the steep but shallower Tyropæon on the west. The top of the ridge is flat, descending rapidly towards the south, sometimes by offsets of rock; and planted. . At the northern end, just at the S. E. corner of the city wall (not that of the mosk), the surface is already 100 feet lower than the top of the wall of the area of the mosk. From this point I measured 1,550 feet, or about 516 yards on a course S. 20° W. to the end of the ridge, a rocky point forty or fifty feet above the Pool of Siloam in the mouth of the Tyropoon. The breadth of the ridge, as measured about the middle, I found to be 290 feet, or about 96 yards, from brow to brow. Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine,' Vol. I. pp. 384-.98.-And see p. 42. Vol. I. Treas. Harm. In every point of view which I have been able to take of the question, both topographical and historical, whether on the spot or in the closet, and in spite of all my previous prepossessions, I am led irresistibly to the conclusion, that the Golgotha and the tomb now shown in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, are not upon the real places of the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord.'-Ibid., Vol. II. p. 80. VOL. II.] BE NOT SILENT TO ME:-Psa. xxviii. 1. [481 SAVE THY PEOPLE, AND BLESS THINE INHERITANCE: FEED THEM ALSO, AND LIFT THEM UP FOR EVER.-Psa. xxviii. 9. 482] PART FIFTH. MATTHEW, CHAP. XXVIII. MARK XVI. LUKE XXIV. JOHN XX., XXI. THE FIRST MAN ADAM WAS MADE A LIVING SOUL; THE LAST ADAM ... A QUICKENING SPIRIT.-1 Cor. xv. 45. ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF TIME. THE FIRST MAN IS OF THE EARTH, EARTHY: THE SECOND MAN IS THE LORD FROM HEAVEN.-1 Cor. xv. 47. COMPREHENDING THE SPACE OF FORTY DAYS' TIME; VIZ.,- FROM THE MORNING OF OUR LORD'S RESURRECTION, EASTER DAY, APRIL 7TH, UNTO THE DAY OF HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN, THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, U.C. 783, A.D. 30. WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP,-1 Cor. xv. 51. [VOL. II. HE MUST REIGN, TILL HE HATH PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET.-1 Cor. xv. 25. PART FIFTH. MATTHEW, CHAP. XXVIII. MARK XVI. LUKE XXIV. JOHN XX., XXI. ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF TIME. Comprehending the Space of Forty Days' Time; viz.,-from the Morning of our Lord's Resurrection, Easter Day, April 7th, unto the Day of his Ascension into Heaven, Thursday, May 16th, U.C. 783, A.D. 30. SECTION 93.-(G. 1—6.)—[ Lesson 97.]-PARTICULARS OF JESUS' RESURRECTION, ON THE MORNING OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, SUNDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH OF NISAN.-Matt. xxviii. 1-8, 11-.5. Mark xvi. 1-11. Luke xxiv. 1-12. John xx. 1-18.-See Greswell, Vol. III. Diss. xliii. pp. 257-320, On the Harmony of the accounts of the Resurrection. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. RESURRECTION OF JESUS. THE PARTY OF SALOME VISIT THE SEPULCHRE, p. 184. Mt. xxviii. - Mk. xvi. 1. On the evening after the sabbath, the two Marys and Salome buy sweet spices, that they may come and anoint Jesus. -xxviii. 1. - xvi. 2. On the first day of the week, before sun-rising, they come to see the sepulchre. xxviii. 2-4. An angel from heaven has rolled back the stone from the door of the sepulchre. His look is like lightning, his clothing white as snow; and at the sight of him the guards of the sepulchre tremble, and are panic struck. -xvi. 3, 4. The women, ignorant, it would seem, of the priests' setting the watch, and of what has been done by the angel, question among themselves how they shall get the stone rolled from the door of the sepulchre; but when they come, they find it already removed. THE GUARD RETURNS Mt. xxviii. 11-.5. In the meantime some of those appointed to watch return, and report to the chief priests what has taken place, who, having assembled with the elders, take counsel as to what is to be done upon the new emergency. They resolve upon bribing Lu. xxiv. 1. are Mt. xxviii. 5, 6. Mk. xvi. - The angel tells the women that they need not fear. He is aware of their errand; they seek Jesus who was crucified, but he is not in the tomb. He is risen as he promised. They are invited to see the place where the Lord lay. -xvi. 5, 6. The women enter the sepulchre, and are by another heavenly messenger addressed in nearly the same words. - xxviii. 7. xvi. 7. The women commanded to go quickly, and tell the disciples and Peter, that he whom they seek is risen from the dead; and as he foretold, goeth before them into Galilee, where they shall see him. - xxviii. 8. - xvi. 8. The women, with mingled feelings of fear and joy, and in mute astonishment, run to bring the disciples word. INTO THE CITY, p. 487. the soldiers to say that while they slept the body of Jesus was stolen by his disciples, the chief priests promising to screen them from the wrath of the governor, should he hear of the supposed dereliction of duty. They take the money, and do as they are bid. VISIT OF THE SECOND PARTY OF WOMEN, p. 488. On the same morning that the two Marys, with Salome, visited the sepulchre, and probably somewhat later, those women who had prepared spices and ointments previous to the sabbath, ch. xxiii. 55, 6, § 92, p. 477, come bringing with them what they had prepared. - xxiv. 2, 3. These also find the stone removed; and entering in, find not the body of Jesus. - xxiv. 4. While perplexed at finding the sepulchre open, and the body of Jesus removed, they perceive two men in shining garments standing beside them. MARY OF MAGDALA REPORTS Mt. xxviii. Mk. xvi. Lu. xxiv. Jno. xx. 1, 2. Mary Magdalene, who had been one of the first at the sepulchre, Mt. xxviii. 1, and who had seen that the stone was removed, has hastened to Peter and John, saying, 'They have taken away the Lord.... and,' &c. VOL. II.] Lu. xxiv. 5-7. They are struck with fear and awe, and are questioned by the angels, why they seek the Living One among those that are dead? In words much the same as those spoken to the women who were first at the sepulchre, they are told that Jesus is risen; they are reminded of his discourse to them in Galilee respecting his death by the hands of sinful men, and his resurrection on the third day. -xxiv. 8, 9, 11. The women remember the words of Jesus, and on returning from the sepulchre, report to the eleven, and other disciples, the things they have seen and heard; but those to whom they are told believe them not. TO PETER AND JOHN, p. 489. Mt. xxviii. Mk. xvi. Lu. xxiv. 10. Jno. xx. The report is brought to the apostles, not only by Mary Magdalene, but by other women, both of her party and of the other. WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED,-1 Cor. xv. 51. [483 THE LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH.-1 Cor. xv. 26. |