Accept an additional testimony from the eighty-seventh psalm [LXX], where Christ speaks in the prophets—for he who then spoke afterwards came among us: O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day and in the night before you; and subsequently, I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.^[1] He did not say, I am become a man without help, but as a man without help; for he was crucified, not because of helplessness but because he willed it; his death was not a result of involuntary weakness. I am numbered with those who go down into the pit.^[2] What is the sign? You have taken my friends away from me^[3] (for the disciples fled away). Will you work wonders for the dead?^[4] Then, But I, O Lord, cry out to you; with my morning prayer I wait on you.^[5] See how these verses manifest the actual circumstances of the passion and the resurrection.

Next, David made it clear that Christ would be buried when he said, They have put me in the lowest pit in the dark places and in the shadow of death. Nor was David silent about the spices used on his shroud. Since the women brought myrrh, spice and cassia, hear what the prophet said: Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh, spice and cassia, and with them the daughters of kings gladdened you in your honor. See how he also predicted that Christ would rise again. You will not leave my soul in hell, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption.^[1] Isaiah expressed the same thing in a different way. For he said, The Lord wishes to cleanse him from his wounds, to show him light, to justify the righteous one who has served many well.^[2]