“And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?”
In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead? — in their fright they bowed down: the appropriate response to divine messengers. Why do you look for the living among the dead: the angelic question reframes the situation completely. They are looking for a dead body; he is not dead. The question is the theological key to the empty tomb.
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