El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-09

shall see the son of man coming forth
from the tomb after having lain there
Tor three days and three nights then
YOU Will have sign that VIII tax your
ingenuity to account for otner Inan
upon the ground that I came from GOu
VINO is the author of all lie
We are not told whether those par
ucular scribes and PharlseeS, VINO
asked for a sign. believed in him When
the! saw IL or uOI- BuI suomi -'
every unprecedented mind If the sign
lSh aDuntantly sufficient TO eSldollsl
the TACT of his divine nature IT christ
after lying in the grave for three Gays
ana three nights, burst the bars OF lne
TOMB and came forth into new me-
Ism II evidence sufficient TO enable
US TO believe in his divine nature-
And doesn't such evidence compel us 70
recognize his divine authority II
certainly does.
II is not my purpose. however In
thlS TO note the evidences OF christ
resurrection from the dead, but TO
note the time Of his sOjOurn IN the
tomb.
4 Stumbling Block to Faith.
The text. which is the language OF
Christ himself, declares that he was
10 remain IN the grave three days and
three nights, but the commonly &C
cepted theory is that he was placed in
the tomb late Friday evening and
arose early Sunday morning thus re-
naming in the tomb but one day and
two nights, and the failure. accord
ing to this theory. of the autitype 10
agree with the type has been a STUN
bling block to the faith Of a great
many people. as we'll as a source Of
ridiCule for those DESTROYS Of bringing
the Christian religion into diSrepura-
In his sOcaued Age of Reason"
Thomas Paine says Jonah and the
whale are made into sign. or type;
Jonah is Jesus Christ and the whale
is the grave But awkwardly
enough. according to their own ac-
count Christ was in the grave but one
day and two nights, Sc hours instead
OF T.
Now its rather humiliating to have
the enemies of Christ making such
charges as these. and It behOOves us
to investigate the matter and see
whether or not they have just grounds
for their charges
Getting ut the Facts.
It might be wei TO state just hero
that Mr. Paine got his information,
concerning the time of Christ's soj0uru
in the grave, from men and not from
the bible. for the bible no where states
that Christ was in the grave only %
hours Neither does it state that he
was crucified on Friday. It is true
the bible says he was crucified on the
preparation of the Sabbath. but that
Sabbath was the Passover Sabbath and
not the weekly Sabbath. JnO- 1914.
By referring to Leviticus 23rd chapter
We learn that both the first and last
days OF the Passover feast We're Sab
bath days, as was also the first. 10th
and 18th DAYS Of the seventh month
These We're Sabbath DAYS for the Jews
just as truly as was the seventh DAY
Of the week SO when Mark and Luke
say that Christ was crucified on the
day before the weekly sabbath. seein-
that the Jews had other Sabbath DAYS
beside the seventh day Of the week
But John is more definite and declares
that IL was the day before the Pass
over SABBATH that he was Crucifief.
The Passover sabbath referred 10
was the first day Of the Passover feast
which began on the 18th day Of the
month Nissan. and IN determining what
day of the week the 18th Of Nissan fell
on the year Christ was crucified
want TO call attention to the conduct
Of the women who witnessed the cru
cifiNion-
Matthew. Mark and Luke all tell 81
certain women who We're present at
the crUcifiNiOn and who fingered about
until after the burial, even until the
great stone had been placed at the
door OF the sepulcher, after which
Luke says they returned and pre-
pared spices and ointmeuts. He doesn't
say when they prepared them. but
Mary says When the Sabbath was
past Mary Magdalene. Mary the mother
of James and Salome bought sweet
spices that they might come and anoiut
him" Luke says they prepared them
before they bought them and Marx
tells US plainly that When the Sab
bath was past they bought sweet
spices"
II was not then until the Passover
Sabbath was past that the women went
to the stores and bought their spices
In other words the day following the
Passover Sabbath was the day which
the women utilized in buying and PIE
pairing their spices and ointment Just
how long il took them 70 DO this we
are not told. But let US turn again
to Luke and see what they did after
preDarine them. And they returned /
and prepared spices and ointment and
rested the Sabbath day according q
the commandment" Lu- 1926. II would
seem then from Luke that after pre-
pairing their spices they rested over the /
Sabbath day. the weekly Sabbath, ac- {