John Trapp on Matthew 27:62

Verse 62. Now the next day that followed] That is, on that high-day, that double Sabbath; they that had so oft quarreld Christ for curing on the Sabbath, request a servile work to be done, of securing and sealing up the sepulcher. It is a common proverb, Mortui non mordent, Dead men bite not. But here Christ, though dead and buried, bites and beats hard upon these evil mens consciences. They could not rest the whole night afore, for fear he should get out of the grave some way: and so create them [illegible: 1 word] trouble. Scipio appointed his sepulcher to be so placed, as his image standing upon it might look directly toward Africa: that being dead he might still be a terrour to the Carthaginians. And [illegible: 1 word], an ancient King of this Iland, commanded his dead body to be embalmed, and put into a brazen image, and so set upon a brazen horse over Ludgate, for a terrour to [illegible: 1 word] Saxons. It is well known that Zisca, that brave Bohemian, charged his Taborites, to flea his corps, and head a drum with his skin; the sound whereof as oft as the enemies heard, they should be appaled, and put to flight. And our Edward the first, adjured his son and Nobles, that if he died in his journey into Scotland, they should carry his corps about with them, and not suffer it to be interred till they had vanquished the Usurper, and subdued the countrey. Something like to this, the Prophet Isaiah foretelleth of our Saviour (and we see it here accomplished) when he saith, In that day the root of Jesse shall stand up for an [illegible: 1 word] to Isa. [illegible: 1 word]. 10. the people, and even his rest (or, as some read it, his sepulcher,) shall be glorius.