“Well then, allowing this piece to be really genuine, our business is to interpret the sense of the passage.(85) And certainly, if I divide the meaning into two, we shall find that it is not opposed to what Matthew says of our SAVIOUR’s having risen ‘in the end of the Sabbath.’ For Mark’s expression, (‘Now when He was risen early the first day of the week,’) we shall read with a pause, putting a comma after ‘Now when He was risen,’—the sense of the words which follow being kept separate. Thereby, we shall refer [Mark’s] ‘when He was risen’ to Matthew’s ‘in the end of the Sabbath,’ (for it was _then_ that He _rose_); and all that comes after, expressive as it is of a distinct notion, we shall connect with what follows; (for it was ‘_early_, the first day of the week,’ that ‘He _appeared to Mary Magdalene_.’) This is in fact what John also declares; for he too has recorded that ‘early,’ ‘the first day of the week,’ [JESUS] appeared to the Magdalene. Thus then Mark also says that He appeared to her early: not that He _rose_ early, but long before, (according to that of Matthew, ‘in the end of the Sabbath:’ for though He _rose_ then, He did not _appear to Mary_ then, but ‘early.’) In a word, two distinct seasons are set before us by these words: first, the season of the Resurrection,—which was ‘in the end of the Sabbath;’ secondly, the season of our SAVIOUR’s Appearing,—which was ‘early.’ The former,(86) Mark writes of when he says, (it requires to be read with a pause,)—‘Now, when He was risen,’ Then, after a comma, what follows is to be spoken,—‘Early, the first day of the week, He appeared to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven devils.’ ”(87)—Such is the entire passage. Little did the learned writer anticipate what bitter fruit his words were destined to bear!