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THE RISEN LORD.
LESSON XI, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 10.
Text of the Lesson, Mutt, xxviii, IT*—Gol¬
den Text, I Cor. xv, SO—Memorize
Verses ft-7—Comments by Itev. H. S.
Hoffman.
[Condensed from lesson Helpei Quarterly by
permission of H. S Hoffman. Philadelphia.
publisher.]
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Notes,—V. 1. End of the Sabbath, means
the same as after the Sabbath. Began t*.
dawn, daybreak near sunrise, Mark xvi, 2.
Mary Magdalene, see Luke viii, 3. Tho
other Mary, the mother of James, Matt,
xxvii, 01. First day of the week, the first
Christian Sunday. V. 2. There was, Re¬
vised Version, had been. V. 4. As dead men,
by fright were throw n into a swoOu. V. 5.
Fear ye not, be not agitates 1 or troubled. V,
6. See the place, to satisfy yourselves that he
is risen. V. 8. Departed quickly, run, tho
news was so good us to put speed into their
feet. V. 0. All hail, a salutation which
means rejoice. Held him by the feet, threw
87. themselves V. 12. prostrate Large before much him, 2 Kin^s iv, to
money, money
bribe them to conceal the truth. V. 18. Per
suade him, satisfy Pilate that he would not
punish them.
V. 1. Jesus had now laid in the guarded
tomb Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday
night, and the morning of the first day (our
Sunday) had come, fn the twilight of the
early morning, not only Mary of Magdala
and Mary the mother of Jesus, but several
other holy women wended their way to the
sepulcher. Matthew omits the names the
others give because he expects to continue his
account of the two he mentions, chapter
xxvii, 61. The Mary of Magdala, in Galilee,
was delivered by Jesus from seven demons,
but she is not the same as many think, with
“the woman that was a sinner.” While they
bore the spices which they had prepared
there may have struggled in their hearts, so
filled with grief, a remote hope of his resur
rection. These women, “lastat liis cross and
earliest at his grave,” were ready to receive
the glad news of Christ’s resurrection. The
disciples were slow to believe it, showing the
difference between woman’s intuition and
man’s reasoning process in attaining the same
result. They went “to see the sepulcher.”
How true affection still prompts us to go to
the place where a sainted one rests, to see the
tomb of buried love. Is there not unconsci¬
ously in each such visit the hope of a resur¬
rection of the body ?
On the way the" huge they stone.' worried How about tho re¬
moval 6t often we are
concerned about difficulties which will be
removed when we come to them.
V. 2, 3. There had been an earthquake,
perhaps a repetition of the shock descrilied
in chap, xxvii, 51 (at the time of the Lord’s!
death), and a divine messenger had st8ne descended jestfe
from heaven to remove the
rose from the dead by the exertion or lVis bwh,
innate divine power. The earthquake anuj
the shining angels but evinced his divine
majesty, and were sent to overawe the guards
and to show that Jesus was not taken from
the tomb by human power. When the
approached the tomb, the herald of
the risen Saviour sat in the shining robes of
and purity upon the stone.
» V. 4. While the old heroes are trembling
impotent, the desponding became heroic;
the living become as dead, he who was
dead comes back to glorious life.
V. 5. The shining one knew what sor¬
row the hearts of those women carried.
Hence he said, “Fear not ye.”
V. 6. The turning point in human his¬
tory begins with Christ’s resurrection. Every
human hope springs from his empty' tomb.
“H e is risen, as be said,” Luke xxiv, 6-7.
j?sus had repeatedly predicted that he would
arise from the dead. He was willing to rust
all his claims to the Messiabship and divin¬
ity upon his ability to overcome death.
V. 7. The women first to see the empty
| tomb, first to hear that he was risen, first to
j have the rifcen Jesus to speak to them and
| first to touch his resurrected body (v. 9) wero
made the first evangelists to make known his
t resurrection.
They were to tell the disciples, Mark xvi, 7,
| adds “and Peter.” He, the saddest of all, was
| to have a drop of joy in his cup. showing
that Christ had forgiven him.
The disciples were to be told that Jesus
would meet them in Galilee, us be hud prom
; ised before his crucifixion,
f V. 8. The joyful news put elasticity in
their steps and enthusiasm in their souls.
They made “haste” on such business. And
yet with all the joy that throbbed in their
bosoms there were mingled emot.ons of fear.
“Fear at w hat they had seen; joy at what
they had heard.” Sc ha if.
V. fi. As they were hurrying on their way
to tell the disciples Jesus met them. Jesus
always meets us when we are earnestly in
the path of duty.
Kneeling down at his feet with beautiful
Oriental simplicity and grace, the women
worshiped him, rendering him divine hom*
age.
j V. 10. They were not to fear him though
t he rose from the chambers of the dead. They
! were not to fear the hate and persecution of
1 their enemies. Christ rose to silence all fears,
I V. 11-12. Contemporaneously with tho
j guard, women perhaps entering tho Jerusalem officers, entered some tho of city; tho
j j bearing the of the resurrection to
one news
j friends, and the the other chief to the enemies deemed of Jesus.
i Caiapbas and rulers the
matter so important and the situation so
grave that the great council of the nation
( was hurriedly called together. It has been
stated that this was the last session that was
ever held by the sanhedrim,
V. 13-15. The miserable subterfuge to
which the rulers resorted refutes itself. How
was it that ail the sixty soldiers slept at the
same time, and so soundly as not to bo awak
ened by the disciples as they rolled away the
{ stone, lifted and carried away the dead
body? If they slept how could they see that
j it was the disciples who stole the body? The
; disciples had no motive In stealing the body,
They knew well that in doing such a deed
those jealous Jews, who had crucified their
leader, would not spare them. Why should
they court danger and death from the Roman
soldiery? Then how could they after¬
ward enkindle enthusiasm from such an
imposition® which would lead them to
, sacrifice property, fame and dear life it
self? Then, besides, they were not a set
| of bold and fearless men prepared for any
desperate enterprise. Peter, the most stout
hearted, accused by a servant maid, denied
him. What a great and unaccountable
change was wrought in them, if they were
now willing to rush upon a body of armed
soldiers to steal the body of one whom they
j had not the courage to defend while living.
Judaism, in its death throes, resorted to a lie.
! But it had to die. Christianity tooi/ its
place on the first Easter morning, for the
Jewish Sabbath then ceased and the Chris
!* tian Sunday began. Ponderous stone, nor
goniaii arms, nor Jewish seals, nor sanhe
; drira lies, could keep the Redeemer in the
grave. He rose and stood beside his empty
tomb, with the broken scepter of death
,
neath his feet. Thank God, Good Friday is
followed by Easter “as God’s amen and as
men’s alleluia.”
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