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I think you will always run into trouble dissecting poetry with logic ... as for the scripture though, there seems little doubt that the body of Jesus lay in the tomb for three nights [unlike what sinners claim it obviously was not what we now call 'Friday, Jerusalem time' then] . As for the spirit we know it returned to God [or more accurately never left] :-
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
I see nothing to gain by dissecting the words because they have to be pushed beyond their usual meaning to be used about the spirit... there are no words about the spirit because so few understand it.... so dissecting rather than looking for meaning is perhaps gonna lead one away from the Truth as often as it helps...
[size=+1]The Scripture passage says NOTHING about a tomb ...
With the Ten Words Decalogue we find the following command:
Exodus 20:22-24 KJV
22. And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
23. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
24. An altar of earth [HSN#127 'adamah] thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Original Strong's Ref. #127
Romanized 'adamah
Pronounced ad-aw-maw'
from HSN0119; soil (from its general redness):
KJV--country, earth, ground, husband[-man] (-ry), land.
The commandment is spoken from heaven and is therefore supernal.
If one has no altar of 'adamah then what shall he do when he arrives here:
Revelation 6:9-11
9. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Despotes-Master, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11. And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be apokteino-slain as they were, should be fulfilled.
If one could see that the altar of 'adamah is the altar of the heart then perhaps the same might begin to understand the more difficult questions such three days and three nights; or how it was that the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, in fact, slew Zechariah the son of Berechiah between the naos-temple and the altar even though he prophesied some 450 years before their time: yea, in fact, they beheaded him when they cut off his voice and all the prophets for whom they built such lavish tombs in putting away their voices far from themselves.[/size]
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