[220]  Matth.  xxviii.'  The  accounts  of  the  four  evangelists,
concerning  the  resurrection  of  Christ,  reconciled.
In  the  first  place,  there  was  a  great  earthquake  ;  an  angel  of
the  Lord  descended  from  heaven,  and  came  and  rolled  back  the
stone  from  the  door,  and  sat  upon  it.  His  appearance  was  like
lightning,  and  his  raiment  white  as  snow,  and  for  fear  of  him  the
keepers  did  shake,  and  became  as  dead  men.  Matth.  xxviii.  2,
3,  4.  And  presentl}',  as  soon  as  their  extraordinary  surprise
would  allow  them,  they  ran  away  into  the  city  ;  and  then  soon
after  they  were  gone,  Mary  Magdalene,  from  her  extraordinary
affection,  comes  to  the  sepulchre  before  the  other  woman,  while  it
was  yet  dark,  and  seeing  the  stone  taken  away  from  the  sepulchre,
and  finds  not  the  body  there,  and  then  runneth,  and  cometh  to

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