Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Matthew 27:51

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51. and the earth did quake —From what follows it would seem that this earthquake was local, having for its object the rending of the rocks and the opening of the graves. and the rocks rent —"were rent"—the physical creation thus sublimely proclaiming, at the bidding of its Maker, the concussion which at that moment was taking place in the moral world at the most critical moment of its history. Extraordinary rents and fissures have been observed in the rocks near this spot. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-52" class="com-number"

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