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Excerpt from After the Resurection: And Other Addresses
Hese are the first words of the risen Christ; they strike one as being singularly cold and repellent at such a time. Their immediate purpose was to put a barrier between Himself and Mary's clasping hands. It was not like Him to repress tokens of love, or to chill hearts. He had let a much worse woman than Mary Magdalene wash His feet with tears, and wipe them with the hairs of her head. At such a meeting, after such a parting, a little exuberance of demonstration might have been permitted, and forgiven even if it had been excessive. The prohibition, strange as it sounds, was followed by a reason which Sounds even more strangely Touch Me not for I have not yet ascended. We might have expected that the first not would have been left out, Touch Me for I have not yet ascended, -would have been intelligible, as suggesting that for a little time still such tokens of love were possible.
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