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Athanasius of Alexandria, on Luke 24:1
Athanasius of Alexandria · c. A.D. 296–373
Luke 24:1 · Douay-Rheims
“And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.”
On this verse:
“(Lib. de Inc. Fil. Dei.) He might indeed at once have raised His body from the dead. But some one would have said that He was never dead, or that death plainly had never existed in Him. And perhaps if the resurrection of our Lord had been delayed beyond the third day, the glory of incorruption had been concealed. In order therefore to shew His body to be dead, He suffered the interval of one day, and on the third day manifested His body to be without corruption.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.