{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030879.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030879.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030879.htm","text":"30. It is said then in the Psalms, \u201cI laid me down and slept, and rose up again, because the Lord sustained me.\u201d 3364 Again, in another place, \u201cBecause of the wretchedness of the needy and the groaning of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord.\u201d 3365 And elsewhere, as we have said above, \u201cO Lord, thou hast brought my soul out of hell; Thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.\u201d 3366 And in another place, \u201cBecause Thou hast turned and quickened me, and brought me out of the deep of the earth again.\u201d 3367 In the 87th Psalm He is most evidently spoken of: \u201cHe became as a man without help, free among the dead.\u201d 3368 It is not said \u201ca man,\u201d but \u201cas a man.\u201d For in that He descended into hell, He was \u201cas a man:\u201d but He was \u201cfree among the dead,\u201d because He could not be detained by p. 555 death. And therefore in the one nature the power of human weakness, in the other the power of divine majesty is exhibited. The Prophet Hosea also speaks most manifestly of the third day in this wise, \u201cAfter two days He will heal us; but on the third day we shall rise and shall live in His presence.\u201d 3369 This he says in the person of those who, rising with Him on the third day, are recalled from death to life. And they are the same persons who say, \u201cOn the third day we shall rise again, and shall live in His presence.\u201d But Isaiah says plainly, \u201cWho brought forth from the earth the great Shepherd of the sheep.\u201d 3370 Then, that the women were to see His resurrection, while the Scribes and Pharisees and the people disbelieved, this also Isaiah foretold in these words, \u201cYe women, who come from beholding, come: for it is a people that hath no understanding.\u201d 3371 But as to the women who are related to have gone to the sepulchre after the resurrection, and to have sought Him without finding, as Mary Magdalene, who is related to have come to the sepulchre before it was light, and not finding Him, to have said, weeping, to the angels who were there, \u201cThey have taken away the Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him\u201d 3372 \u2014even this is foretold in the Canticles: \u201cOn my bed I sought Him Whom my soul loveth; I sought Him in the night, and found Him not.\u201d 3373 Of those also who found Him, and held Him by the feet, it is foretold, in the same book, \u201cI will hold Him Whom my soul loveth, and will not let Him go.\u201d 3374 Take these passages, a few of many; for being intent on brevity we cannot heap together more.\nIsa. xxvii. 11, LXX.\n555:3372 555:3373 555:3374","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.: Section 30","type":"page"}