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Luk 23:56. Ἡτοίμασαν, they prepared) They had their home in Galilee; Luk 23:49. The office they rendered to Him is the greater on that account, as being rendered away from home, and attended with greater cost and trouble. [Thou hereby dost perceive truly unwearied piety (affection) and assiduity springing from faith; which faith, however, itself already underwent a strange eclipse in those excellent souls.-Harm., p. 583.]-ἀρώματα, spices) which are dry.-μῦρα, ointments) which are liquid.-Σάββατον, the Sabbath) The rest appointed to be observed on the Sabbath was more obligatory than the rest connected with the feast. [Christ’s rest in the sepulchre claimed to itself this whole Sabbath, which is on that very account most worthy of attentive consideration. The things which at that time took place in the kingdom of the invisible world, will benefit believers in no ordinary degree, so long as there shall remain aught of them, nay, indeed to all eternity.-V. g. Most excellent effects truly took place, during the calm repose of this Sabbath, in those souls which, though timid, were yet choice and precious, nay, indeed in the Saviour Himself. 1Pe 3:18-19; Act 2:24, et seqq.-Harm., p. 583.]