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I laid me down and slept, I awaked, for the Lord sustained me. (Psalm. 3.5.) and Lactantius that verse of Sibyl, [Greek or Hebrew], The term of death he shall finish, when he hath slept unto the third day. His dying, or his burying at the farthest, is that which here is answerable unto his lying down: but his [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] (as ^hDionysius calleth it) his ⟨p. 353⟩his three-days burial, and his continuing for that time in the state of death, is that which answereth unto his sleeping or being in Hádes. And therefore the Fathers of the fourth Council of Toledo, declaring how in Baptism ⁱthe death and resurrection of Christ is signified, do both affirm, that the dipping in the water is as it were a descension into Hell, and the rising out of the water again, a resurrection; and add likewise out of Gregory (with whom many other ^kDoctors do herein agree) that ^lthe three-fold dipping is used to signify the three-days burial. which differeth as much from the simple burial or putting into the earth, as [Greek or Hebrew] doth from [Greek or Hebrew], the transportation or leading into captivity from the detaining in bondage, the committing of one to prison from the holding of him there, and the sowing of the seed from the remaining of it in ground.

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