Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

buried . . . rose again--His burial is more closely connected with His resurrection than His death. At the moment of His death, the power of His inextinguishable life exerted itself (Mat 27:52). The grave was to Him not the destined receptacle of corruption, but an apartment fitted for entering into life (Act 2:26-28) [BENGEL]. rose again--Greek, "hath risen": the state thus begun, and its consequences, still continue.