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<strong>THE</strong> CREED. 63<br />

name of the governor is added to impress the great<br />

truth on the memory of the faithful. And was buried.<br />

the Nicene<br />

The Apostles Creed says dead and buried,<br />

omits dead. The death of the Lord is plainly<br />

stated in the fact of His burial. By the death of<br />

Christ we mean that the blessed Soul of our<br />

Jesus<br />

Lord, to which the Divinity clung, was separated from<br />

His Body, with which also the Divinity remained<br />

inseparably united. He took a body capable of suffer<br />

ing. He died from violence, but when He chose and<br />

as He chose. He allowed violence to take its natural<br />

effect. (See His own words in St. John x. 1 7.) The Council<br />

adds buried, because burial is the strongest proof of<br />

death, and from the fact of Christ s burial the miracle<br />

of His Resurrection is more glorious and clear. Christ s<br />

Body in the tomb could not suffer corruption.<br />

And the third day He rose again according to<br />

the Scriptures. Christ foretold that He would rise again,<br />

not vaguely some day, but the third day. This means He<br />

was in the tomb a part of Friday, all Saturday, and a<br />

part of Sunday He rose ; again by His own power and<br />

not by the power of another, as Lazarus and<br />

Divinity ;<br />

many others rose, only to die again ; Christ rose to die<br />

no more ;<br />

&quot;<br />

from the<br />

Knowing that Christ rising again<br />

dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have<br />

dominion over Him.&quot; (Romans vi. 9.) On the Resur<br />

rection rests the whole truth of Christianity. By that<br />

fact Christ and His Church stand or fall ; the Council<br />

adds according to the Scriptures, the inspired word<br />

has taught this great article of Faith. And ascended<br />

into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the<br />

Father. The work of redemption over, Christ as Man,<br />

Body and Soul, ascended into Heaven not merely by the<br />

power of the Divinity, but by the power granted to His

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