ledgeth him a Righteous Perſon. The Tozef on the Croſs teſtifieth he . _ nd one nothing amiſs. Fugas the Traitor, confeſſeth he had be: ; ro the earth, they {aid unto them, Why ſeek ye the lvng 04 trazed innocent Blood, The Centwim owneth him to be no ordina- : among the dead || ? WE | ry Man, but a Kighiecrs Man, the Son of God. The multitude a!- ; 6 He 1s not here, but is riſen * : Remember hoy les, ways ownee him. They fee they are now run down, they ſmite ſpake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, ſn. their Breaſts, ſay nothing, but depart. Only thoſe that were. to | 7 Saying, The Son of man muſt be delivered int the 23
have beenthe Teachers of others, arc blinded and hardened to their hands of ſinful men, and be crocified. and the third daytil | 7 5
ruin. , * Mark 15. $o And behold, there was aman named * Joſeph,a coun- . goo they * remembred his words MG
= +3» + ſellor, and he was a good man, and ajult : Theſe two Men were two Angels in humane ſhape. Sce the Notes Ch. 2. 26, 5! The ſame had not conſented to the counſel and deed on Matthew 28. £6 9% 38. of them : He was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews who alſo himſelf waited for the kingdom of God. ©”
52 Thismwan went unto Pilate, and begged the body of
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| 9 * Andreturned from the fepulchre, and told all theſe, things unto the eleven, and toall the reſt;
10 It was Mary Magdalene, and * Joanna, and Mary *, 53 And hetook it down, and wrapped it in linen, and the mother of James, and other women that were withthem,
yo : which told theſe things unto the apoſtles. _ + kgazceney waa cam al 6 ſtone, wherein ew 11 And their words ſeemed to them as idle tales, and
See the Notes on Hatth. 27. 57, 58. they believed them not.
12 Then aroſe Peter, and ran unto the ſepulchre, and * Mat. 27. NE. = that day was the * preparation, and the ſabbath ſtooping dawn, he beheld the linen cloaths laid by them: £ D » by . . . » as Gr. Ed6Ge]o7 trigarre, the Sabbath ſhined. What Preparation {elves, and PR_ wondring in himſelf at that which w was here intended, whether to the Weekly Sabbath of the Jews, (that COME to pals, py: it was moſt certainly) or to the Paſſer alſo, which ſome will have Sce the Notes on Matth. 28. 8, 9, 10. but more fully on hs Fen fo have been this year put off to that Dav, becauſe of the eoncur- | 2» 3» 4: © who repeateth this piece of Hiſtory more large hong rency of the Weekly and the Annual Feaſt, 1 ſhall not determin e, the reſt. It 15 plain that ſcarce any of the Diſciples gave = - ” tho the moſt judicious Interpreters Silled in the Hebrew Writin 25, the firſt Relation of the Women; but yet, it being near f 8 nn think tite Paſſover this year was kept in its ſeaſorpthe Night before: Peter and Fohn thought it worth the while to go and ſee. , o Eut the Sabb:th, that is the ſeventh Day drew on. The Greek Word Peter alone be mentioned here, yet John 15 mentioned, Jo n 4 La ſ:gnifies ſhined, the propriety of whick term, hath coſt Criticks ſome | 4> 5* under the Notion of antherDiſciple ; and he is ſaid to = paizis to make out, for it rather began to he dark, than lightſme, | 2V5Tun Peter, and to have come'firſt to the Sepulchre, But con = their Sabbath beginning after the ſetting of the Sun. Some think | 28 that part of the Hiſtory —_—y ro the: emon, *n a the Word referred to the Erening Srar, which began to ſhine. reſerve our ſelves till we come to John 20, We now pe > _— = Others, that it referred to a Lamp or Candle, which they were wont | P!Ec< of Hiſtory relating to the evidencing of Chriſt's Reſurre pot ko ſet up, they call it Luminare deſcriminatimis, the Light of Diſcri- | FIN 1s neither touched by Matthew nor by John. | __ wg an " mination, which beirg ſet up in there ſeveral Families, the Sabbath it ſhortly, ch. 16. 12, 13. After that he appeared in _ fo ho was accounted to be begun, Others think it referred to the follow- | 2,9 em, a they walked, and went into the Country. = ing Day. Eut there neecs not much labour in the caſe, for by the | 2*""> 404 told it unto the reſidue ; neither believed they them. fame reaſon that it is ſaid, The Evening and the Morning made the ſhall now hear Lube giving us a more full and perfeft account.
Sabbath Day, the Savbath might be ſaid d-71g&/oxery (that is, to] 13 And * behold twoof them went that fame day, wy begin) when is began to he Dark, not faking the Word ina proper, | village called Emmaus, which was from Jerufalem avout
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4 - . . ' - of the Fo Galilee, followed after. and beheld the {| | Who thoſe two were is variouſly gueſſed ; that the —_— Clap. > hibo Fg was laid ; epulchre, and how one was Cleop%;, appeareth from v. 48, Some will have tne _ Rod $9 | | + 50 ; to have been Like, but he in the beginnirg of his Golpe! dutungh ” 56 | q they returned, and Prepared ſpices and Olnf- eth himſelf trom Eye Witneltes, Ch, hk, V. 2. JOMC Wh: have i |
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have been Nathaniel, others wilt have it to hays been Simon, from v. 24. and 1 Cor. 15. 5. But theſe things are fo uncertain, that all the inſtrution we can learn from them, is the Vanity and incertain-
ty of Traditions. This Emmaus was. from Feruſalem, about ſixty Lurlongs, wich make ſeven Miles and an half, according to our
14 And they talked together of all theſe things which had happene .
There 15 nothing more ordinary, than for Perſons walking and ri- upon Roads, to make the preſent news of the time, the ſubje& of theil Diſcourſe : There had great things happened in Feruſalem,the Death of our Saviour was ſuch, and thoſe things which attended his Death were very extraordinary, and it is not at all to be won- dred that 4 Diſcourſe of them thould fill every mouth, every Diſciple's mouth | 15 And it came to paſs that while they communed t0- gether, and reaſoned, * Jeſus himſelf drew near, and went
with them.
He overtook them upon the way, and joyned himſelf to their Company» It 15 a good thing to be diſcourſing of Chriſt, it 1s the way to have his preſence and company with us, |
16 But their eyes were holden, that they ſhould not
know him.