And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were amazed.
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Bede
AD 735
It was fitting that the herald of his resurrection is reported to have been sitting, so that by sitting he might prefigure him who, having triumphed over the author of death, would ascend to his seat in his everlasting kingdom…. Sitting on a throne is the act of a king, and standing at a place of sacrifice is that of a high priest. Because our redeemer deigned to become for us at the same time both a king and a priest—a priest to cleanse us thoroughly from our sins by being a sacrificial offering in his passion, a king to bestow on us an everlasting kingdom. The angels who proclaim his resurrection appeared while sitting in order to signify that he had gone to seek his seat in the heavenly kingdom after having overcome death. They appeared also standing to show that he also intercedes for us in the mysteries of his Father as a high priest. ,
