“Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?” they asked one of another. On the way as they sorrowfully conversed, they seemingly for the first time thought of the difficulty of entering the tomb. Some of them had been witnesses of the burial, and were conscious of the necessary haste with which the corpse had been wrapped with spicery and laid away by Joseph and Nicodemus, just before the beginning of the Sabbath and now these adoring women came early to render loving service in a more thorough anointing and external embalmment of the body. aĪt the earliest indication of dawn, the devoted Mary Magdalene and other faithful women set out for the tomb, bearing spices and ointments which they had prepared for the further anointing of the body of Jesus. ![]() Moreover, there was nothing left for them to guard the seal of authority had been broken, the sepulchre was open, and empty. Even the rigor of Roman discipline, which decreed summary death to every soldier who deserted his post, could not deter them. When they had partially recovered from their fright, they fled from the place in terror. The soldiers, paralyzed with fear, fell to the earth as dead men. His countenance was brilliant as the lightning, and his raiment was as the driven snow for whiteness. While it was yet dark, the earth began to quake an angel of the Lord descended in glory, rolled back the massive stone from the portal of the tomb, and sat upon it. Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, had passed, and the night preceding the dawn of the most memorable Sunday in history was well nigh spent, while the Roman guard kept watch over the sealed sepulchre wherein lay the body of the Lord Jesus.
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