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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Isidore of Pelusium
I marvel at the folly of those who ask how Christ rose again before the three days. If indeed He rose later than he had foretold, it were a mark of weakness, but if sooner, a token of the highest power. For when we see a man who has promised his creditor that he will pay him his debt after three days, fulfilling his promise on that very day, we are so far from looking upon him as deceitful, that we admire his veracity. …
Western Saints
Bonaventure
And after they have scourged him, they shall put him to death, as though he were wicked: whence it is said in Daniel nine: "After sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people who are to deny him shall not be his"; and Isaiah fifty-three: "He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter and shall be silent as a lamb before his shearer"; and Matthew twenty-seven: "After they had mocked him, they clothed him in his own garments and led him away to be crucified." "And they crucified with him two thieves." "And the Scripture was …
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