Where vvas the Lord buried?
1 In a garden planted with herbs and trees, next vnto the place where he was crucified, in which place Ioseph had his Sepulcher, that in the verie place of his delights he might be admonished of death by the beholding of the monument.
1 Because the first Adam died spiritually in a garden.
2 Because (as Cyril saith) there is prepared for vs a returne into Paradise by the death of Christ.
3 To shew the plentiful fruit which should grow to all that be∣leeue, from his death and buriall.
4 Because from the crosse there is a passage to Paradise.
Againe, he is buried in a Sepulchre. 1. Hevven out of a rocke, least the aduersaries should cauill, that the Lordes bodie was stolne by his Disciples through some vaults vnder the ground.
2 In a new one, that we might know how that the condition of death is chaunged by his merit, and because of the mysterie of a nevv breast, wherein the Lord reioyceth to dwell.
3 He is buried in a Sepulchre, wherein no man vvas buried before, that his resurrection might not be slaundered, as if some other rose a∣gaine, saith Theophylact: that is, that they should not deuise this slaunder, as to say, that some one, or more other did rise againe, and not Christ himselfe, or that he rose againe by the touching or power of another who had beene buried before in the same verie place, as wee read of him. 2. King. 13.21. who being cast into the Sepulcher of Elizeus reuiued, when he had touched his bones.
4 In an other mans Sepulchre; because as Augustine saith, he died and was buried for other mens saluation.