manner of a man, to allow his holy body to hang naked on a cross, to suffer it to be lifted, handled, carried like a lump of cold clay, and shut up in a dark, silent, solitary tomb, — this was indeed love tliaf, passeth knowledge. What true believer need fear the grave now ? Solemn as is the thought of our last nar- row bed, we must never forget that "it is the place where the Lord lay." (Matt, xxviii. 6.) " The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Cor. XV. 56.)
Henry observes, " Christ's death should comfort us against the fear of death. The grave could not long keep Christ, and it shall not long keep us. It was a loathsome prison before, it is a perfumed bed now. He whose Head is in heaven, need not fear to put his feet into the grave."
Every Bible reader knows that Isaiah's famous prophecy con- tains the words, " He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death." (Isa. liii. 9.) But not every one knows the interesting fact that the more correct translation of the Hebrew words would be, " His grave was appointed to be with the wicked ; but with the rich man was His tomb." This is the opinion of such eminent scholars as Capellus, Vitringa, Bishop Lowth, and Bishop Horsley.