. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. ough much andincreasing obscurity by patriarchal tradition, andreceiving, it may be, a more correct shape from timeto time by intercourse with those who were moredeeply imbued with right notions on Abraham may have recalled Pharaoh and hissubjects to a knowledge which they were forget-ting, and the influence of Job may have for a timerestrained the idolatry of Arabia. The Scripturetells us, and all history assures us, that the existenceof another state was known to man from the be-ginning. The Egyptian, Arabian, Phoenician,Etruscan, a
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. ough much andincreasing obscurity by patriarchal tradition, andreceiving, it may be, a more correct shape from timeto time by intercourse with those who were moredeeply imbued with right notions on Abraham may have recalled Pharaoh and hissubjects to a knowledge which they were forget-ting, and the influence of Job may have for a timerestrained the idolatry of Arabia. The Scripturetells us, and all history assures us, that the existenceof another state was known to man from the be-ginning. The Egyptian, Arabian, Phoenician,Etruscan, and early Greek theology, all were de-rived at first from the same source, and became cor-rupted each in its own manner, according to thegenius and moral force of its own nation. When standing in those tombs, and looking uponsuch :i scene of the world to come, ;is we were thenspelling by torch-light from the walls, it. is impossi-ble to help wondering at and admiring the quantityof truth and knowledge that remained amongst this TARQUINIA. 203. ) m TARQUINIA. 203 ancient nation, particularly when we remember thestate of Gods own people, who, though they never,down to the Christian era, had a cessation amongstthem of visible communion with the world above,through prophets and miracles, yet in our Saviourstime had many of them become so degenerate, as todoubt and dispute if there were angel or such men, like natural brute beasts, to whomthey level themselves, are made, as the Scripture says,to be taken and destroyed. I will defy any one not toentertain some of these feelings in the grottos of theCardinale and the Tifone. Above one of the walls Micali saw many epitaphsin black letters, of which he made out Velcia, Felce or Felchial, 30^38: V4I0V38: thefamily or order to which the tomb had belonged, butwe could scarcely decipher them. On the upperpart of the pillars, just beneath the leaves, are stillvisible combatsof gladiators. The figures are small,but done with great
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