Religion
Matthew 27:64: How vain the care of Jesus' foes
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
How vain the care of Jesus' foes
The truth to bury and suppress!
The avenues of faith they close,
And thus confirm the witnesses.
By hindering serve our God's design,
And prove the prophecy Divine.
Can all the art of devilish man.
The stone, the soldiers, and the seal
Eternal life in death detain,
When Jesus bursts the gates of hell.
And bids at last the dead arise,
And meet their sentence in the skies?
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Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 27:64: How vain the care of Jesus' foes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4618/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 27:64: How vain the care of Jesus' foes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4618/.
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