Matthew — Chapter 28
These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
1. To see the Sepulchre.) The holy Sepulcher, and Pilgrimage therunto. The deuout women came to visit our Sauiours sepulcher, and for their deuotion first deserued to know the Resurrection, and to see him risen. The honour of the which Sepulcher, and the Pilgrimage thereunto in the Primitiue Church, S. Hierom declareth in these wordes, *The Iewes sometime honoured Sancta Sanctorum, because there were the Cherubs and the Propitiatorie, and the Arke of the Testament, Manna, Aarons rod, and the golden Altar. Doth not the Sepulcher of our Lord seeme vnto thee more honorable? Which as often as we enter into so often doe we see our Sauiour lie in the sindon and staying there a while, we see the Angel againe sit at his feet, and at his head the napkin wrapped togeather. The glorie of whose Sepulcher, we know was long prophecied before Ioseph hewed it out, by Esay saying: **And his rest shal be honour: to wit, because the place of our Lordes burial should be honoured of al men. And at this present, notwithstanding the Turkes dominion, yet doe the Religious Christian Catholike men by Gods mighty prouidence keepe the holy Sepulcher, which is within a goodly Church, and Christians come out of al the world in Pilgrimage to it. *In Ep. 17. Paulæ & Eustoch. ad Marcel. to. 1. **Esa. 11.
Verse 19
19. Going therfore.) The Catholike Church to be gathered of al Nations. Commission to baptize and preach to al Nations giuen to the Apostles, and grounded vpon Christs soueraigne authority, to whom was giuen al power in Heauen and in earth.
Verse 20
20. With you al daies.) Christs continual protection of the same Church. Here Christ doth promise his concurrence with his Apostles and their Successours, as wel in preaching as ministring the Sacraments, and his protection of the Church neuer to cease til the worlds end: contrary to our Aduersaries, saying that the Church hath failed many hundred yeares til Luther and Caluin.