 | Samuel Croxall - Bible and law - 1735 - 526 pages
...this Ejaculation, Father, into thy hands I commend myfpiritt He gave up the Ghofl. At that Inftant, the vail of the temple •was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom; 'The earth did quake; the rocks -were rent; and the graves were opened. Infomuch, that the Centurion, who commanded... | |
 | Esq. J. Stephens - Christianity and other religions - 1777 - 392 pages
...darknefs over the whole earth, from the fixth to ** the ninth hour; and the fun was darkened;" Moreover, " the vail of the temple was rent in " twain from the top to the bottom ; the earth did " quake, the rocks rent, and the. graves were " opened*:" So that, befides the mighty works which... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1777 - 528 pages
...the Temple ; or, Accefs to the Holy of Holies by the death of Chrift, 104 MAT. xxvii. 15. And, behold the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. The words being analized and explained, and their proper fignification being afcertained, the following... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Atonement - 1802 - 512 pages
...As if he had said, the t work which I covenanted to perform on earth is compleated. At the same time the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The Apostle tells us, that by the High Priest on earth entering within the vail into the second tabernacle... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 340 pages
...as in the vision of Isaiah, the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried; and, behold, the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. The voice of the angel from Mount Sinai shook the earth. " But now- he hath promised, saying, yet " once... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 458 pages
...him*. At his crucifixion, all nature seemed to be thrown into convulsions : the sun was darkened ; the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom ; the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; the graves were opened, and gave up their dead ; and even the heathen... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1825 - 588 pages
...land ; and when, after he had expired on the cross, the earth quaked, the rocks were torn asunder, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, the graves were opened, and the bodies of many saints who slept, arose. Well might the " Centurion and... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...land ; and when, after he had expired on the cross, the earth quaked, the rocks were torn asunder, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, the graves were opened, and the bodies of many saints, who slept, arose. Well might the " Centurion and... | |
 | Thomas Stratten - Antipopes - 1830 - 338 pages
...of the world. He had offered his own body once for all. When, therefore, he had given up the ghost, the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The most holy place,—in which the mysterious symbols of a present Deity, the lambent flame of fire hovering... | |
 | William NORRIS (Rector of Warblington, Hants.) - 1830 - 372 pages
...the outcries of those who were aware that the graves were giving up their dead, and that the mystic vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The result of the whole of this was that conviction in his mind of the divinity of the Person who thus... | |
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... the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, the graves were opened, and many of their inhabitants arose to life. 
