Joseph (of Arimathea)
“of Arimathea”
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Joseph
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The man who took down and handled Christ's body, cited as proof of its bodily reality.
But if Joseph too knew it to be a body which he handled with all piety — that Joseph who had not consented with the Jews in their crime?
Adversus Praxean
Owner of the tomb invoked in the rebuttal of Patripassianism.
perhaps not to be believed of the Father, although written — whom these men bring down into the womb of Mary, and set in the tribunal of Pilate, and shut up in the tomb of Joseph.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The figure who took down and buried Christ's body, marking the time for the late Station's fast to end.
If this savours more of the Christian religion, since it the more celebrates the glory of Christ, I can equally fix the standing of a later Station from the same order of the matter, that we fast till evening, awaiting the time of the Lord's burial, when Joseph took down the body he had begged and laid it away.