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Hereupon Ruffinus in his exposition of the Creed, having given notice, ^ethat in the Symbol of the Church of Rome there is not added, He descended into hell, nor in the Churches of the East neither; adjoineth presently: Yet the force or meaning of the word seemeth to be the same, in that he is said to have been buried. For the terms of burial and descending into hell in the Scripture phrase tend much to the expressing of the self same thing: but that the bare naming of the one doth lead us only to the consideration of the honour of burial, the addition of the other intimateth unto us that ⟨p. 311⟩which is more dishonourable in it. Thus under the burial of our Saviour may be comprehended his [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], his funeration and his interring: which are both of them set down in the end of the 19. chapter of the Gospel according to S. John. the latter in the two last verses, where Joseph and Nicodemus are said to have laid him in a new Sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid: the former in the two verses going before, where it is recorded that they wound his body in linen clothes, with spices, [Greek or Hebrew], as it is the manner of the Jews to bury. for to the [Greek or Hebrew] or funeratiō belongeth the embalming of the dead body, & all other offices that are performed unto it while it remains above ground. So Gen. 50.2. where the Physicians are said to have embalmed Israel; the Greek translators render it: [Greek or Hebrew]. and when Mary poured the precious ointment upon our Saviour; himself interpreteth this to have been done for his ^ffuneration or burial. ^gFor it was a custom in times past (saith Eusebius, commonly called Emissenus) that the bodies of noble men being to be buried, should first be anointed with precious ointments, and buried with spices. And ^hwho knoweth not (saith Stapleton) that a sepulchre is an honour to the dead, and not a disgrace? But the mention of Sheol (which hath special relation, as hath been showed, to the disposing of the dead body unto corruption) and so of Hades, Infernus, or Hell, answering thereunto, carrieth us further to the consideration of that which the Apostle calleth the sowing of the body in corruption and dishonour. (