2.  As then we set forth the testimonies concerning His Cross, so come let us now verify the proofs of His Resurrection also:  since the Apostle before us ὁ παρών. i.e. in the text.  1 Cor. xv. 4. affirms, He was buried, and has been raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.  As an Apostle, therefore, has sent us back to the testimonies of the Scriptures, it is good that we should get full knowledge of the hope of our salvation; and that we should learn first whether the divine Scriptures tell us the season of His resurrection, whether it comes in summer or in autumn, or after winter; and from what kind of place the Saviour has risen, and what has been announced in the admirable Prophets as the name of the place of the Resurrection, and whether the women, who sought and found Him not, afterwards rejoice at finding Him; in order that when the Gospels are read, the narratives of these holy Scriptures may not be thought fables nor rhapsodies.