ACC ~ Mark 15 v42

YESTERDAY HE WAS SLAIN

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS: Yesterday the lamb was slain, and the door posts sprinkled with his blood, while Egypt mourned for her firstborn. But the destroying angel and his sacrificial knife, fearful and terrifying, passed over us, [1] for we were protected by the precious blood. This day we have wholly departed from Egypt, and from Pharaoh, its cruel tyrant, and his oppressive overseers. We are freed from laboring with bricks and straw, [2] and no one forbids us celebrate the festival of our passing over, our pasch, and to celebrate not with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. [3] … Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with him. Yesterday I died with him; today I am given life with him. Yesterday I was buried with him; today I rise again with him. ON THE HOLY PASCH AND HIS OWN RELUCTANCE. [4]

[1] Cf. Ex 12.

[2] Cf. Ex 5.

[3] Cf. 1 Cor 5:8.

[4] TLG 2022.015, 35.397.6-16, 18-20; SSGF 2:220.

REVIEWING THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE THREE DAYS

AUGUSTINE: Scripture again witnesses that the space of those three days did not imply whole days in their entirety. Rather the first day is counted as whole from its last part, and the third day is itself also counted as a whole from its first part; but the intervening day, i.e., the second day, was absolutely whole with its twenty-four hours, twelve of the day and twelve of the night. For he was crucified first by the voices of the Jews in the third hour, when it was the sixth day of the week. Then he hung on the cross itself at the sixth hour, and yielded up his spirit at the ninth hour. [1] ON THE TRINITY 4.6, 10. [2]

[1] Cf. Mt 27:23-50.

[2] NPNF 1 3:74.