Letters from Adina - #37b

Letter XXXVII (ii) The Angels at the Sepulchre.

“Fear not, ye daughters of Jerusalem. I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here, but is risen, as He foretold. Lo! see the place where the Lord hath lain!”

Jerusalem, First Day of the Week.

… “Thou believest now, Adina,”’ said Mary of Bethany, to me, as we ran onward. “Yes, only let me behold Him face to face, and I shall be willing to die.

"How looked the risen Lord, Mary?” I asked. “There was the same benign and holy expression, he ever wore, the same divine majesty, the same loving countenance and heavenly dignity.”

“How and where did you behold him, Mary?” I asked further, as we drew near to the steep path leading to the gate of Joseph’s garden.

“When we came to the tomb, with our spices and precious ointments, to embalm the body, we found the tomb open, and the soldiers who had guarded it lying about upon the ground like dead men."

"Upon the stone sat the archangel, but the gleaming light of his apparel and countenance were so tempered to our eyes, that, although we believed that it was an angel, we were not terrified; for his looks were serene, and his face showed divine beauty, with a terrible and indescribable majesty. We shook with fear, and stood still, unable to move, gazing on him in silent expectation."

“Fear not,” he said, in a voice that seemed to fill the air about us with undulating music, "fear not, ye daughters of Jerusalem. I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here, but is risen, as He foretold. Lo! see the place where the Lord hath lain!”

"We then drew near with fear and trembling, and looked in, and saw the sepulchre empty; but a soft light filled the whole place."

“Go and tell his disciples, that the Lord is risen,” added the angel “and that He will go before them into Galilee. There shall they see Him not many days hence.”

“When the angel had thus spoken to us,” continued Mary, “we departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, and ran to go into the city, to bring His disciples word, according to the command of the angel. But I had not advanced so far as the gate of the garden, being behind the rest, when I beheld Jesus himself standing in my path. I stopped, being filled with terror and joy.”

“All hail! daughter of Israel,” he said, “Be not afraid. I am living. It was needful that I should die, and rise again, that I might raise up from the dead all who die in me to life immortal.

Go, Mary, and tell my mother, and my brethren, and Peter, and John, and Lazarus, that I am risen, and that I have spoken with you. Behold my wounded hands, that it is I myself. Be not afraid. I am the resurrection and the life.”

“I then cast myself at His feet, and worshiped Him with awe; and when I looked up, He was not there.”

“The others did not see Him. We now continued to hasten to the city as if we had wings; yet, rapidly as we went, some of the same Roman watch whom we met coming in just now passed us in their flight and alarm; for they fled at first in different parties, taking different ways.”

“But see! we are now at the gate of the garden,” added Mary of Bethany, in a voice of awe. “He must be near us.”

But we approached the tomb without seeing any man, having arrived before Peter and John, who had been delayed some time at the Joppa gate, which way they took as being nighest; but it the gate was not opened when they reached it, and they were detained.

We, therefore, found no one at the sepulchre. It was open, and empty. The stone in front, on which the archangel sat, was lying there.

As we drew near, a bright light suddenly shone out from the tomb; and drawing nigh, I beheld two angels, clothed in white robes, and with countenances of divine radiance, seated, one at the head, and the other at the foot of the slab of marble, on which Jesus had lain.

At the sight of these wondrous and beautiful beings, who we knew were sons of God come down from heaven, we were affrighted. I sank upon the stone which had been rolled away, and remained speechless with terror.

“Be not afraid, daughters of Jerusalem,” said one of the angels, speaking to us in the Hebrew tongue; “He whom ye seek, liveth, and dieth no more. He is risen from the tomb, which could not hold Him but through His consent; for Jesus is Lord of Life; and hath conquered death and hell for evermore. Go your way, and tell His disciples that He awaits them by the sea-side.”

The angels then vanished from our sight, and at the same moment John and Peter came running, and seeing the stone rolled away, John stooped down and looked in, and said that he saw the linen clothes in which the body of Jesus had been wrapped, lying folded together, and also the napkin which had been bound about his head.

Peter now coming up, breathless with eagerness and haste, no sooner saw the tomb open, than he went boldly in, and examined all for himself. He then called to John, who also went in, and both were convinced that their Lord had indeed risen from the dead; and when we made known to them what the angels had said to us, that Jesus would go before and meet them in Galilee, they rejoiced greatly, and shortly afterwards departed, to hasten into Galilee, no longer doubting, but believing.

I also returned with them, to convey the news to Mary, the mother of Jesus, who had not left the house, and scarcely her couch, in her great sorrow, since the day of the crucifixion…

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