“Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.”
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to hold him — the resurrection (anastasis) is the pivotal reversal: death could not contain Jesus (adynatos, impossible, impotent before divine power). The agony (ōdin, birth pangs, labor pains) of death is the phrase that makes sense of Easter as the birth of a new creation. Resurrection is not CPR but transformation; death's grip is broken.
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