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cross ; but he shewed his power more fully, by 

 rising from the grave. They saw him taken dead 

 from that cross, and laid in a sepulchre, which 

 was scooped out of the rock, which was acces- 

 sible only at the entrance, and which was guarded 

 by sixty soldiers. Yet while the soldiers watched, 

 he burst those feeble barriers, and rose from his 

 tomb, to shew his followers that those who die in 

 Him shall rise, as he did, to triumph over 

 death. 



" After his resurrection," continued my uncle, 

 cl there was a wonderful change in our Lord. 

 Previously to this event, it was in power, and 

 in wisdom, that he had shewed himself divine ; 

 but afterwards, every thing concerning him 

 seems miraculous and mysterious. This first 

 appears in the manner of his resurrection. He 

 evidently had left the sepulchre before it was 

 opened ; the women who are named by St. 

 Matthew, saw the angel appear, and roll away 

 the stone ; but he was already gone. * To Mary 

 Magdalene,' he said, c touch me not,' as if 

 there was that divine spirituality about his person 

 which forbade the near approach of human 

 frailty. And twice, when his disciples were 

 assembled and the doors fastened, for fear of the 

 Jews, he appeared in the midst of them ; but 

 to Him who had departed from the unopened 

 sepulchre, it was no difficulty to enter a barri- 

 cadoed house. From these, and other concurring 



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