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14 of shadows, while Lazarus had been shut within his prison walls for three succe[es]ive days. Thus did Christ reach his strong arm farther and farther over the border of the unseen world. "There is now but one step more: let him go himself into that land of might. Let the withes be put upon him, as they were upon the strong man; let the Gaza gates be shut behind him with their brazen clang, let him break the mithes and bear away the gates; and he shall stand with the diadem of Omnipotence upon his brow. This Christ did. It was but the fit consummation and outgrowth of his life." It was the highest step in the progression. To have gone into the dominions of death only so far as to have brought man back into mortal life would have left him still under the reign of death. But Christ went through to the other Side