Matthew 28:4. For fear of him ,i.e., of the angel. As the angel was there when the women came, and the guard did not go back to the city until after the women departed (Matthew 28:11), it seems most probable that all these occurrences took place, just as the women came.

The watchers did quake . In their terror they did not prevent the women from going into the sepulchre.

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Old Testament