5) expressly stated that the women who visited the Sepulchre on the first Easter morning, 'after they had entered in' ([Greek: eiselthousai]), saw the Angels.

St John explains that at that time Mary was not with them.

She had separated herself from their company;--had gone in quest of Simon Peter and 'the other disciple.' When the women, their visit ended, had in turn departed from the Sepulchre, she was left in the garden alone.

'Mary was standing [with her face] _towards the sepulchre_ weeping,--_outside_[173].' All this, singular to relate, was completely misunderstood by the critics of the two first centuries.

Not only did they identify the incident recorded in St.John xx.