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To conclude the account, he was removed from the cross and tenderly laid in the grave. When once there, free from further molestation and risk, he came round. With his powers of miraculous healing, the healing of his own wounds required but a thought to be effected. His triumph was now complete; he had risen from the dead. He had been carried to the grave as the slave of death, but he left it as its master. It was truly a resurrection, but not in the sense in which it is generally understood. It was the resurrection of Godhood from the clutches of ingorance and sin. A master hand had applied the Key of Knowledge,' and had opened the way to Truth. The powers of darkness and death were no more for such as cared to follow the Saviour on the path.
RESURRECTION.
How and when Jesus came to himself is not known; nor is it material for our purpose. It seems probable that he did not see many of his disciples after his resurrection. Certainly, he did not appear unto the public, or to any of his enemies. It is a circumstance much to be regretted. What were his reasons for thus disappearing from the scene altogether, it is impossible to say; it is only open to us to conjecture about them. It might have been that he thought that his reappearance on the scene would not necessarily convince his enemies of the truth of his doctrine. He might have thought that they would ascribe the phenomenon to the art of necromancy, and would propose another and possibly a severer test. Possibly, he thought that the evidence furnished by the empty grave and the linen clothes and napkin was proof evident to any one who
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