[5.53] According to Matthew xxviii. 1, et seq., the keepers would have been witnesses to the descent of the angel who removed the stone. This very embarrassed account would also lead us to conclude that the women were witnesses of the same act, but it does not expressly say so. Anyhow, whatever the keepers and the women should have seen, according to the same narrative, would not be Jesus resuscitated, but the angel. Such a story, isolated and inconsistent as it is, is evidently the most modern of all.
[5.54] Luke xxiv. 48; Acts i. 22; ii. 32; iii. 15; iv. 33; v. 32; x. 41; xiii. 30, 31.
[5.55] See above p. 1, note 1.
[5.56] See “Life of Jesus,” p. 275, et seq.
[5.57] I. Cor. xvi. 22. These two words are Syro-Chaldaic.
[5.58] Matt. x, 23.
[5.59] Acts ii. 33, et seq.; x. 42.
[5.60] Luke xxiv. 19.
[5.61] Acts ii. 22.
[5.62] The diseases were generally considered to be the work of the devil.