27. Next it is written that |He gave up the ghost.| This also had been foretold, by the Prophet, who says, addressing the Father in the Person of the Son, |Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit.| He is related also to have been buried, and a great stone laid at the door of the sepulchre. Hear what the word of prophecy foretold by Jeremiah concerning this also, |They have cut off my life in the pit, and have laid a stone upon Me.| These words of the Prophet point most plainly to His burial. Here are yet others, |The righteous hath been taken away from beholding iniquity, and his place is in peace.| And in another place, |I will give the malignant for his burial;| and yet once more, |He hath lain down and slept as a lion, and as a lion's whelp; who shall rouse Him up?|

Mark xv.37 Ps. xxxi.5

Lam. iii.53

Isa. lvii.1, 2

Isa. liii.9, LXX.

Gen. xlix.9