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Joseph places Jesus\u2019 body in a \u201cnew tomb.\u201d <\/p>\n
New wine cannot be contained in old wineskins. \u00a0The new wine of the new covenant, the wine that Jesus will drink new in the Father\u2019s kingdom, cannot be contained in old wineskins. \u00a0So too, a new kind of body requires a new kind of tomb, and Jesus\u2019 body is definitely a new sort of body. \u00a0It\u2019s not surprising that Matthew uses the word \u201ctomb\u201d ( mnemeion <\/em> ) seven times, and the seventh instance of the word refers to an inverted tomb, a tomb opened from the inside. <\/p>\n And what does this do to memory? \u00a0Tombs are \u201cmemorials,\u201d mnemonic devices for the dead. \u00a0But what of an empty tomb? How can you memorialize a tomb that\u2019s been cleared out? \u00a0We memorialize the resurrection, but that\u2019s only to say we memorialize what has begun to happen but hasn\u2019t been completed. \u00a0We memorialize the future. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joseph places Jesus\u2019 body in a \u201cnew tomb.\u201d New wine cannot be contained in old wineskins. \u00a0The new wine of the new covenant, the wine that Jesus will drink new in the Father\u2019s kingdom, cannot be contained in old wineskins. \u00a0So too, a new kind of body requires a new kind of tomb, and Jesus\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-nt-matthew"],"yoast_head":"\n