So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a guard.
All Commentaries on Matthew 27:66 Go To Matthew 27
Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
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.
They say that He had declared, “After three days I will rise again,” inconsequence of that He said above, “As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly,” But let us see in what way He can be said to have risen again after three days. Some would have the three hours of darkness understood as one night, and the light succeeding the darkness as aday, but these do not know the force of figurative language. The sixth day of the week on which He suffered comprehended the foregoing night; then follows the night of the Sabbath with its own day, and the night of the Lord’s day includes also its own day; and hence it is true that He rose again after three days.
