“(Lib. de Inc. Fil. Dei.) He might indeed at once have raised His body from the dead. But some one would have said that He was never dead, or that death plainly had never existed in Him. And perhaps if the resurrection of our Lord had been delayed beyond the third day, the glory of incorruption had been concealed. In o…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
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5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
— Luke 24:7 —
8And they remembered his words,
9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.