John Trapp on Matthew 27:60

Verse 60. And laid it in his own new tomb] His own, [illegible: 1 word] was now well warmed sweetned and sanctified by our [illegible: 1 word] body, against himself should be laid there; as afterwards he [illegible: 1 word] and probably was too. A new tomb it was, and fit it should [illegible: 1 word] for that virgin-body, or maiden-corps, as one calls it, [illegible: 1 word] and untainted. Besides, else it might have been suspected, [illegible: 1 word] not Christ but another arose; or if he, yet not by his own, but by anothers vertue: like him who revived at the touching of the bones of dead Elisha, 2 King. 13. Buried our Saviour was. 1. [illegible: 1 word] none might doubt of his death. 2. That our sinns might be buried with him. 3. That our graves might be prepared and perfumed for us, as so many beds of roses, or delicious dormitories, Isa. 57. 2. He was buried in Calvary, to note that he died for the condemned: and in a garden, to expiate that first sinne committed in the garden: and in another mans sepulchre, to note that he died for other mens sins, as some will have it. Helena, mother [illegible: 2 words]. of Constantine the great, bestowed great cost in repairing this [illegible: 1 word] of our Saviour, which the Heathens out of hatred to Christ had thrown down, and built a temple to Venus on the same ground. And Ierusalem, that poor ruinous city, being governed, by one of the Turks Sanzacks, is for nothing now more famous Turk Hist. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. then for the sepulchre of our Saviour again repaired, and much visited by the superstitious sort of Christians and not unreverenced by the Turks themselves. And he rolled a great stone] Either for an inscription to the sepulcher, or for more safety to the body, or that the glory of the resurrection might be the greater, or all these together.