But immortality is shewn to mortals as [debita, ap. Pseudo-Hier.] due to thankfulness, that we may understand what we were, and that we may know what we are to be.
There follows: “But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee.”
The women are ordered to tell the Apostles, that as by a woman death was announced, so also might life rising again. But He says specially unto Peter, because he had shewn himself unworthy of being a disciple, since he had thrice denied his Master; but past sins cease to hurt us when they cease to be pleasing to us.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).