The answer
The books are Holy Scripture. The Hebrew word “cepher” means “book,”40 i.e. the Books of Holy Scripture, with all the prophecies and signs contained therein which point to the truth of the Resurrection, and which attest to it.
Here are some examples:
- ❖ “I lay down and slept; I awaked” (Ps. 3:5 LXX).
- ❖ “[I]n the third day He will raise us up” (Hos. 6:2).
- ❖ Being in the belly of the whale for three days (Jon.).
- ❖ “[R]aised again [on] the third day” (Matt. 16:21).
- ❖ Who will deliver Him to the Jews (Luke 22:3, 4).
- ❖ “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Cor. 15:55).
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Notes
40 Translator’s note: cepher, n.: writing; a writing; a book (cf. Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon.).
Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 107.
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