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At 02:10 PM 7/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>
> >I could be wrong but I believe the phrasing is that the resurrection was on
> >the "third" day. This is somewhat different than saying "three" days after
> >burial. In short, Jesus was quickly buried before sunset on Friday (First
> >Day), all of Saturday in the tomb (Second Day), and rose from the dead at
> >dawn on Sunday (Third Day).
>
>I have seen a number of medieval works give the same explanation. Also, the
>fact that Romans counted days inclusively (in other words, if something
>happened "in three days" they would have counted the day it happened as day
>one) would have factored in.
>
>Susan
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