Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
s3 , 4.—How that Christ died for our sins . . . according to the scriptures. Hosea 6:2: "After two days will He revive us; in the third day He will raise us up," i.e, when He shall on the third day Himself rise from death to life; for the resurrection of Christ was the cause of our rising from the death of sin, and of our future resurrection from bodily death, so that we are to rise like Christ on the Judgment Day to everlasting life. See notes on Romans 4:25. So Anselm, Dorotheus, in the beginning of his Synopsis, and also the Jewish writers of old in Galatin. lib. viii. c22. Theophylact, following S. Chrysostom, says that it was prophesied under an allegory that Christ should rise again on the third day; for Jonah brought from the whale"s belly on the third day, was a type of Christ brought back to life from death and hell on the third day.
Isaac, too, typified the same event in his being rescued from death when about to be sacrificed by his father, and restored to his mother alive and well on the third day. So Christ was given by His Father and sacrificed, and raised again on the third day. But these two instances are drawn from the allegorical sense, that of Hosea is from the literal.
