NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 28:4

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For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

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Verse 4. The guards were struck, and so forth Fear and astonishment seized upon them, because they had not that charity for our Redeemer, of which he is so deserving; and they became petrified, like statues, at the thought that the crucified Jesus was arisen from the sepulchre. For these men guarded the sacred tomb, actuated more by passion and cruelty than by any sentiment of love and duty. Rabanus.

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