the mother of our Lord. A few minutes after she departed on her joyful errand — running, we need not doubt, as she had run before, — our Lord appeared to the other women, as is recorded by St. Matthew. (Matt, xxviii. 9.)
Brentius remarks what honor this passage puts on women. Sin came into the world by Eve, a woman. Yet God, in mercy, ordered things so that of a woman Christ was born, to a wo- man Christ first appeared after He rose from the dead, and a woman was the first to carry the news of His resurrection. He quaintly says, ' Jesus made Mary Magdalene an Apostle to the Apostles."
Cecil remarks, " Singular honor is reserved for solitary faith. Mary has the first personal manifestation of Christ after His resurrection. She is the first witness of this most important and illustrious fact, and the first messenger of it to His disci- ples."