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ST. Mark 16.1–81

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Extract

In the first part of this article we shall have a look at several features of this passage: discussion of the empty tomb, of the discrepancies between our several sources, and of the question whether Mark intended to end his Gospel with 16.8, we reserve for the second part.

According to all four Gospels women were the first to receive the news of the Lord's resurrection. According to Matthew, the Markan appendix and John it was also a woman or women who first saw the risen Lord, though Luke would seem to agree with Paul in representing Peter as the first to see Him. Is this precedence of women in the Easter narratives of the Gospels significant?

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1952

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page 282 note 2 Luke 24.34.

page 282 note 3 1 Cor. 15.5. Did Paul omit the women, because their testimony could hardly be expected to carry much weight with the Corinthians (cf. A. M. Ramsey, The Resurrection of Christ, p. 42)? Is it possibly a case of magnus dormitat Homerus—Paul himself indulging in ⋯νθρωπ⋯νη σoφ⋯α?

page 283 note 1 Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Pringle's, W. translation), vol. 3, pp. 338 f.Google Scholar

page 283 note 2 Matt. 28.1.

page 283 note 3 b Qid. 82b quoted in TWzNT 1.781.

page 283 note 4 j Sota 19a 8 quoted in TWzNT 1.782. For other reff. see this article by A. Oepke in TWzNT on γυν⋯.

page 283 note 5 Cf. Friedrich, G. in Göttinger Predigt-Meditationen 42, p. 135, who compares the part played by the shepherds at Christmas.Google Scholar

page 283 note 6 I Cor. 1.27–29.

page 284 note 1 Matt. 28.2, Jn. 20.12, ; and as for Luke, 24.23 makes it clear that he meant angels by his in verse 4. Gf. νεαν⋯αι in 2 Mace. 3.26, 33: verse 34 makes it clear that these νεαν⋯αι are angels.

page 284 note 2 4/4. PP. 376–382.

page 285 note 1 Barth's attitude to those who seek to bow the angels off the stage is clear enough from such a sentence as the following: ‘Eine geheimnislose, eine des Spiegeis der sich sclbst repräsentierenden Gottheit entbehrende und also eine engellose Frömmigkeit und Theologie wird sich im Grunde immer als eine gottlose Theologie erweisen’ (op. cit., p. 558).

page 285 note 2 op. cit. p. 567.

page 285 note 3 This does not mean that in the central stretch of the Gospel history they are not present. Of course they are present as God's witnesses there most certainly, but they are like candles that are not noticed in the midday sun.

page 286 note 1 In this connexion it is interesting to contrast the relative success of paintings of the Crucifixion with the relative ineffectiveness of pictures of the Resurrection—e.g. Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Crucifixion and Isenheim Resurrection.

page 286 note 2 On the obvious apparent exception, John 20.2–9, see Barth, op. cit., p. 594.

page 286 note 3 See Part II of this article on the discrepancies between the various narratives.

page 287 note 1 Institutio, I.14.5.

page 287 note 2 op. cit., p. 574.

page 287 note 3 See S.J.T. 5/1, p. 57, last paragraph of note continued from previous page.

page 288 note 1 Cf.S.J.T. 5/1, pp. 60–66.

page 288 note 2 Das Euangelium des Markus (Theol. Handkommentar zum NT), 1931, ad loc.

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page 288 note 4 Catena Aurea ad loc.

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page 289 note 1 Perhaps there is some support for this view in the fact that in 14.27–31 Christ's prediction of Peter's denials and His promise that He will go before them into Galilee come together.

page 289 note 2 Das Evangelium Marci (2nd ed.) ad loc.

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page 290 note 1 Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, xliii, sect, iii, part 4, pp. 391 f.

page 290 note 2 Homiliae in Evangelia, xxi.5, (In Migne, Patrologia Latina, LXXVI, 1172) quoted by Aquinas, Catena Aurea, ad loc.

page 290 note 3 Published in 1936.

page 291 note 1 The Gospel according to St. Mark (1952), p. 608.

page 291 note 2 Locality and Doctrine in the Gospels (1938), p. 76.

page 292 note 1 p. 88.

page 292 note 2 p. 116.

page 292 note 3 op. cit., p. 71.

page 293 note 1 op. cit., p. 345.

page 293 note 2 cf. Ramsey, op. cit., p. 71.

page 294 note 1 op. cit. 347.

page 294 note 2 Kirchliche Dogmatik 3/3, p. 595.

page 295 note 1 The Gospel Message of St. Mark, p. 97.

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page 298 note 1 James 1.19, 3.1.

page 298 note 2 No doubt with Eccles. 5.2 in mind.