“Surely if no one had as yet been laid there, men and women were afterward laid there. For this is the meaning for those who consider carefully.… He who said, "We have been buried with Christ through baptism and have risen with him," has himself been after Christ buried together with Christ in a new and spiritual tomb…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 143
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42There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
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In context
40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.