John Trapp on Matthew 28:1

CHAP. XXVIII.

Verse 1. The first day of the week] GReek, of the Sabbaths. One day of seven is due to God of necessity. This the Scripture calls by an excellency the Sabbath, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. day without a difference: as if it were the eldest brother to all [illegible: 1 word] daies of the week, which is called here and elsewhere Sabbath; in the plurall, Psal. 24. title, A Psalm of David. To this the Greek addeth, Of the first day of the week, which now is theRevel 1. Christian Sabbath, called the Lords day, in honour of Christ, and in a thankfull remembrance of his resurrection. See the Note on, Joh. 20. 1. To see the sepulcher] To see what the Pharisees had done with the Lords body the day before (for they knew they had been tampering, and feared the worst, as love is suspitious) and to bring the spices, which by an easie errour, they had prepared, Luke 24. 1. They knew not, belike, that Joseph and Nicodemus had been at that cost and pains before them; neither did any of them consider that what they did herein was superfluous, for that it wasAct. 2. impossible for Gods holy one to see corruption. But he is pleased to passe by our well-meant weaknesses, where the heart is upright.