helpful as to pilgrim in spirit to the tomb of Him who
said, "I am the resurrection and the life"?

In comparison with the great ones of the earth Jesus had but a humble
funeral; yet in the character of those who did Him the last honours it
could not have been surpassed; and it was rich in love, which can well
take the place of a great deal of ceremony. So at last, stretched out
in the new tomb, wherein man had never lain, enwrapped in an aromatic
bed of spices and breathed round by the fragrance of flowers, with the
white linen round Him and the napkin which hid the wounds of the thorns
about His brow, while the great stone which formed the door stood
between Him and the world, He lay down to rest. It was evening, and
the Sabbath drew on; and the Sabbath of His life had come. His work
was completed; persecution and hatred could not reach Him any more; He
was where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.

[1] The most beautiful thing ever said about the bodies of the dead is
in the Shorter Catechism: "And their bodies, being still united to
Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection."

[2] On these and similar details see _The Life of our Lord as
exemplified in Works of Art_, by Mrs. Jameson (completed by Lady
Eastlake).

[3] Many interesting details in Ross's _Cradle of Christianity_.

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