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LUKE 24:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“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.

Church Fathers on Luke 24:5

Devout women not only on the day of preparation, but also when the sabbath was passed, that is, at sun-set, as soon as the liberty of working returned, bought spices that they might come and anoint the body of Jesus, as Mark testifies. Still as long as night time restrained them, they came not to the sepulcher. And therefore it is said, On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, &c. One of the Sabbath, or the first of the Sabbath, is the first day from the…

Bede · 8th century

Now this place has caused great perplexity to many, because while St. Luke says, Very early in the morning, Matthew says that it was in the evening of the sabbath that the women came to the sepulcher. But you may suppose that the Evangelists spoke of different occasions, so as to understand both different parties of women, and different appearances. Because however it was written, that in the evening of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, our…

Ambrose · 4th century

Or Matthew by the first part of the night, which is the evening, wished to represent the night itself, at the end of which night they came to the sepulcher, and for this reason, because they had been now preparing since the evening, and it was lawful to bring spices because the sabbath was over.

Augustine · 4th century
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