Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 42
See these stages in Luke xxiii. 47–55.
Still it was not nothing5161 5161 Non nihil: “a something.”
that was there. What was there, then? If a phantom Christ was yet there. If Christ had departed, He had taken away the phantom also. The only shift left to the impudence of the heretics, is to admit that what remained there was the phantom of a phantom! But what if Joseph knew that it was a body which he treated with so much piety?5162 5162 This argument is also used by Epiphanius to prove the reality of Christ’s body, Hæres. xl. Confut. 74. The same writer also employs for the same purpose the incident of the women returning from the sepulchre, which Tertullian is going to adduce in his next chapter, Confut. 75 (Oehler).
That same Joseph “who had not consented” with the Jews in their crime?5163 5163
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 23
VERSE (47) - :41 Mt 27:54 Mr 15:39 Joh 19:7
