<p>28:4&nbsp;<i>And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men-&nbsp;</i>They shook along with the earth, which shook at the earthquake. Their association with the earth is therefore made apparent.&nbsp;The women came to the tomb, therefore, to find the stone moved away, the Angel sitting upon it, and the soldiers laying on the ground like corpses. The women had come expecting to find the dead body of Jesus, slain as He had been by Roman soldiers. Instead they find the situation reversed; the soldiers are lying there dead, as corpses <i>nekros</i>, and an Angel who is clearly representative of Jesus tells them that He has risen from the dead.</p>