And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
Arimathea is the same as Ramatha, the city of Helcana and Samuel, and is situated in the Chana nitic country near Diospolis. This Joseph was a man of great dignity in respect of worldly station, but has the praise of much higher merit in God’s sight, seeing he is described as righteous. Indeed he that should have the burial of the Lord’s body ought to have been such, that hemight be deserving of that office by righteous merit.
Or, otherwise; The linen is grown out of the ground, and is bleached to whiteness with great labour, and thus this signifies that His body which was taken of the earth, that is of a Virgin, through the toil of passion came to the whiteness of immortality.
And to this day the holy women, that is, the lowly souls of the saints, do the like in this present world, and with pious assiduity wait while Christ's passion is being completed.
