Matthew 28:3-4. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow; and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
He said nothing as he rolled back the stone; he did not shake a sword at them, or over them, to fill them with terror. The presence of perfect purity, the presence of heavenly things, is a terror to ungodly men. May you and I be such that our very presence in company will cast a hush over it! "It was e’en as though an angel shook his wings," they said of one good man, when he spake in common conversation. May there be about us enough of the heavenly to make the powers of evil quail before us!
Matthew 28:3-4. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow; and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
He said nothing as he rolled back the stone; he did not shake a sword at them, or over them, to fill them with terror. The presence of perfect purity, the presence of heavenly things, is a terror to ungodly men. May you and I be such that our very presence in company will cast a hush over it! "It was e’en as though an angel shook his wings," they said of one good man, when he spake in common conversation. May there be about us enough of the heavenly to make the powers of evil quail before us!