sepulchres

• “stones of ... pit -- whose bodies are buried in sepulchres excavated amidst stones, whereas the king of Babylon is an unburied "carcass trodden under foot.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Egyptians and Persians, and is practiced at the present day, among many nations; also the custom of placing food in their sepulchres, which is rebuked by St. Augustine.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “One of the sepulchres was a well-jointed vault of stone with no wall-paintings.”

  New Italian sketches

• “But the bodies of sinners are called sepulchres of the dead, because the sinner's soul is dead in his body; for that cannot be deemed to be alive, which does no spiritual or living act.”

  Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew

• “Origen: And in the prophetic writings, the historical sense is the body, the spiritual meaning is the soul; the sepulchres are the letter and books themselves of Scripture.”

  Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew

• “Success and admiration, even the admiration of those whose yoke they had broken, cheered them while living, still sheds a glory round their remote and untitled sepulchres, and will illumine the page of their history for ever.”

  Domestic Manners of the Americans

• “Even so, Douai-Rheims gave us "through a glass darkly", "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof", "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's" and "whited sepulchres".”

  The Guardian: The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar

• “I like the biblical reference to this phony spectacle, likening the public prayer-bots to sepulchres, all whitewashed on the outside yet full of stench, rot, and decay on the inside.”

  Freshwater: More sanctions coming against Hamilton? - The Panda's Thumb

• “Whitewashed sepulchres and clashing gongs and all that.”

  Making Light: Open thread 136

• “Blair has dipped his blood-smeared snout into various corporate troughs, amassing millions, while simultaneously becoming one of the great whited sepulchres of our day, making a great show of his conversion to Catholicism, his”

  Miraculous Organ: Blair, Obama and the Narcissist's Defense

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