Roman seal on Christ's tomb

Does anybody know of a great Logos resource for finding out specifically about the Roman seal on the tomb?

I had specific questions in my Matthew Bible Study about how the seal would be able to keep anybody out and how it would prove anything.

I imagine it was like a lead fishing weight, in which it gets crimped onto a wire or something, going through a hole in the stone and the cave.

Yes? No? The dictionaries and commentaries I have consulted do not go into much detail.

Thanks.

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DMB

Most of my commentaries point back to Dan 6 and the lions' den sealing. Expositor's Greek Testament: 'The participial clause—σφραγίσαντες τὸν λίθον—is a parenthesis pointing to an additional precaution, sealing the stone, with a thread over it and sealed to the tomb at either end.'

Jack Caviness

how the seal would be able to keep anybody out

Not the physical seal, but the fact that it represented the authority of the Roman Governor.

MJ. Smith

Wait - I think this evening's news had a segment on the recent archeological find. They found a tomb with a broken seal. The seal may date to the 1st century. The tomb might be near Jerusalem. The tomb must be the one Jesus borrowed. They even found the scroll with the 3 day rental agreement.

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Tobias Lampert

Wait - I think this evening's news had a segment on the recent archeological find. They found a tomb with a broken seal. The seal may date to the 1st century. The tomb might be near Jerusalem. The tomb must be the one Jesus borrowed. They even found the scroll with the 3 day rental agreement.

Talkin' about the archaeologist who stepped into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in order to get some cooling?

Carey G. Pearson

At this point, the tomb is officially sealed with the Roman seal. The sealing of the tomb was done in several steps. First, a strong rope was placed around the stone at the door of the tomb. Secondly, the two ends were drawn to the side of the door on the outer wall of the tomb. Thirdly, a wax or clay seal was placed on the rope where it crossed itself in front of the stone and where the rope touched the two sides of the tomb. It would be impossible to move the stone without breaking the seal. To break the Roman seal was punishable by death. This occurred on Saturday. Jesus was laid in the tomb on Friday and, on Saturday; the Roman guard was placed to make sure that the body would not be stolen out of the tomb.

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George Somsel

Wait - I think this evening's news had a segment on the recent archeological find. They found a tomb with a broken seal. The seal may date to the 1st century. The tomb might be near Jerusalem. The tomb must be the one Jesus borrowed. They even found the scroll with the 3 day rental agreement.

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Mary Clare Wallace

I just read on an internet site (Wikipedia?) that a contingent of Roman soldiers would have numbered sixteen. Since they were not allowed to sit or lean on guard duty, and since falling asleep by one soldier would have garnered an unpleasant death for all sixteen guards...AND since in all Catholic bibles it alludes to the guards numbering in threes and fours, it's doubtful that the guards were Roman. Now, if you take into consideration the fact that Pilate was reticent to execute Christ to begin with, and would have found it even more ridiculous to guard Him once He was dead, he'd have probably shut the Pharisees up by letting them guard the tomb with their own temple guards who wouldn't have had jurisdiction to do so, even though the argument exists that the Pharisees may have preferred the Romans do so lest the Apostles claim the temple guards got rid of Christ should he get the better of the temple guards and get away from them anyway...wait,...what?! That's ludicrous!! The Pharisees would NEVER have believed anything about Christ really being able to rise from the dead, AND would have asked Pilate to put a bounty on the heads of the Apostles if they tried anything, so a massive "yes" goes out to the temple guards being sufficient to the Pharisees in satisfying their need to prevent any hoo-hah from taking place. All the easier for them to keel over and snooze come midnight when it stands to reason that the Resurrection of Christ would no doubt have caused a ripple effect of circumstances to be set in play: First, a rarified air causing the guards not to fall asleep but to lose consciousness until dawn; Second, His complete physical restoration and simultaneous supernatural Resurrection to life, this imprinting in a electrophysical effect his imprint on the veil and the shrowd he was covered in; Third, His actual getting up and facing the door of the sepulchre, and the bursting of the seal and ropes; Fourth, His standing and becoming newly garbed as the cork-shaped NOT round disk-shaped stone was backed off and then rolled away from the door. Look up door shapes for second temple period tombs, you'll find that only the very wealthy could afford the pocket-enclosed disk-shaped doors. Joseph of Arimathea was the Minister of Mines, and while he was more affluent than his contemporaries, he was far from wealthy. The tombs of regular people had cork-shaped doors that, yes, could be rolled after the initial shove was made. However, I doubt that Christ literally "shoved" anything. He simply willed it.

And His Resurrection? Since He said to Caiaphus, "I and My Father are One and the Same!" this means that He is not only the Redeemer, but the Creator as well. So He resurrected Himself. Niiiiiice! Thanks for the read, and God bless.

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David Ames

I just read on an internet site (Wikipedia?) that a contingent of Roman soldiers would have numbered sixteen. Since they were not allowed to sit or lean on guard duty, and since falling asleep by one soldier would have garnered an unpleasant death for all sixteen guards...

This was to be a longer then a few hours duty. Sixteen sounds like a good number. Four to be on duty. Four sleeping. Four relaxing. And four goofing off. Not sure how long each shift would be before they rotated responsibilities. Only the four on duty would be expected to be fully alert. If anything came up the four relaxing could come to duty while the four goofing off could wake the ones sleeping and then all sixteen join the on duty status. [maybe]

And His Resurrection? Since He said to Caiaphus, "I and My Father are One and the Same!" this means that He is not only the Redeemer, but the Creator as well. So He resurrected Himself. Niiiiiice! Thanks for the read, and God bless.

IMHO I don’t think that he resurrected Himself. My thoughts are that the Father [in one of His few direct actions in history] accepted the Son’s sacrifice by raising Him. As I said just IMHO.

But we have zero evidence from Scripture. [And the commentaries are just the author's opinion] [[And welcome to the discussion]]

DMB

IMHO I don’t think that he resurrected Himself.

Now, David. You didn't need to IMHO. You could use your Logos, finding both (depending on the author).

Jack Caviness

IMHO I don’t think that he resurrected Himself. My thoughts are that the Father [in one of His few direct actions in history] accepted the Son’s sacrifice by raising Him. As I said just IMHO.

But we have zero evidence from Scripture.

John 10:17-18

Puddin’

IMHO I don’t think that he resurrected Himself. My thoughts are that the Father [in one of His few direct actions in history] accepted the Son’s sacrifice by raising Him. As I said just IMHO.

But we have zero evidence from Scripture.

John 10:17-18

https://biblehub.com/john/2-19.htm