 | James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...history of the gospel, wherein it is recorded that " The graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves...his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many' ;" upon which place St. Hilary writeth thus, " Enlightening* the darkness of death,... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...and raised to attend the Lord at his rising. " And the graves were opened ; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves...his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt. 27 : 52, 53. This wonder was designed, both to adorn the resurrection of... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...the territories of death : For, when he gave up the ghost, the earth did quake, the neks rent, the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints, which slept, arose and came out of their graves, after his resurrection, and -sent into the Holy City, and appeared unto many. It could... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1799 - 416 pages
...had died. The death of saints is often called sleep, Dan. xii. 2. 1 Cor. xv. 18. 1 Thess. iv. 15. 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. There is nothing said of the reason" why they were raised. It is not improbable... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened ; 'and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 54 Now, when the centurion, and they that were with him, ;elf watching Jesus, saw... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...chapter of St. Matthew, verses 52, 5S — " And tbe graves were opened, and many bodies of the siiints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, aud ivt'iit into the holy city, and appeared unto miny." He inquires, what became of these person*,... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints, which...his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many ;' in conclusion, if Christ, whose resurrection was declared by angels, seen and... | |
 | Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened ; and many bodies of the saints/ which slept arose, and came out of the graves...his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now , i a Vinegar had been for many ages the common drink of the lower people of... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 380 pages
...Tiberius, destroyed twelve cities in Asia . *. " And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose and came out of the graves...his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Who the holy persons were which then arose from their graves must be matter of... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...the rocks rent, 52 And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept, arose. 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 54 Now, when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the... | |
| |
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection,... 
