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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. TOMBS AND SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. "Strong vaulted cells where martyr'd seors of old Far in the rocky walls of Zion sleep; Green terraces, and arched fountains cold, Where lies the cypress shade so still and deep. Th' unearthly thoughts havo passed from earth away, As fast as evening sunbeams from the sea. Tby footsteps all, in Zion's deep deeay, Were blotted from the holy ground. Yet dear Is every stone of hers. For Thou wert surely here." Well did the expatriated cup-bearer of Artaxerxes Longimanus, when soliciting the office of Tirshatha of Jerusalem, style the capital of his father-land " the place of his father's sepulchres"--for no expression could more forcibly characterize the Holy City than the term necropolis--its rocks being everywhere perforated with tombs, and its soil covered with grave-stones. Most ardently does every Jew still desire a final resting-place in the Holy City, and especially in the Valley of Jehosaphat, not only because he dreads the underground passage (should he die abroad), but because he believes that the Lord will there finally plead for "his people" and judge the nations. It is a much cherished belief amongst the Jews that beneath the adjacent mountain all their dead are inhumed, and shall there be raised. "When the dead shall live again," say they, "Mount Olivet is to be rent in two, and all the dead of Israel shall come out thence: yea, those righteous persons, who died in captivity, Sepulchres--Jewish and Roman. shall be rolled under the earth, and shall come forth under the Mount of Olivet"--so declare the Rabbins. These myriads of sepulchres, though originally designed, almost without exception, for the interment of the dead of Israel or their proselytes, have, in turn, served also for...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230247793
- ISBN 13 9781230247793
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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