This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... had certainly not yet received this message of Magdalene; but the "disciples" were not all assembled together in one company on this day. SECOND GREETING, TO THE WOMEN LEAVING THE SEPULCHRE. (Matt, xxviii. 9, 10.) St Matthew is to be reconciled with St Mark and St John, without having recourse to all kinds of artifices--the strangest of which is the supposition that there were two Magdalenes. We have said already that the same one Magdalene (97 MaySarjvrj) went and came with the others to the sepulchre; but she hastened before, and went away again earlier. We know not whether St Matthew was acquainted with this; we do not affirm it as a dogma that each Evangelist knew every particular. The first mentions, ver. 1, in addition to Mary Magdalene, only the other Mary; yet we must suppose other women to have been present, as otherwise there would be left for vers. 9, 10, only the second Mary,--Mary Magdalene having, according to St John and St Mark, seen the Lord at first alone. In this Ebrard is right, but not in the strange supposition that vers. 9, 10, refers to the manifestation which had been made to the Magdalene alone, but merely continues in the indefinite plural, because that had been already adopted--the Magdalene, however, being solely intended. If we yield to Ebrard, and those who think with him,1 this section of our exposition must fall to the ground;---because our present narrative would then be only St Matthew's "depicturing" of the simple occurrence which took place with. Mary Magdalene. But such an apparent extension of the manifesta 1 Grotius, Olshausen, Tholuck, v. Gerlach. We find the same view developing its consequences where we should not have expected it. For instance, Albertini preaches that "Magdalene had, as Matthew expressly relates...
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