The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ers. stone sarcophagi already noticed. The mouth ofthe sepulcher was secured by a huge stone (:6o; John XK38). But the entrance-porch,to which the removal of this rude door gave ad-mittance, was so large that several persons couldstand in it and view the interior; and hence weread that the women who visited the sepulcher ofour Lord, entering in, saw a young man sitting,clothed
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ers. stone sarcophagi already noticed. The mouth ofthe sepulcher was secured by a huge stone (:6o; John XK38). But the entrance-porch,to which the removal of this rude door gave ad-mittance, was so large that several persons couldstand in it and view the interior; and hence weread that the women who visited the sepulcher ofour Lord, entering in, saw a young man sitting,clothed in a long white garment (Mark xvi:s) ;and in like manner, in reference to the flight ofsteps, that Peter stooping down, and looking in,saw the linen clothes lying (John xx:5). Someof the more splendid of these tombs, however, in-stead of the block of stone, have the porches sur-mounted with tasteful mason-work, and supportedby well-finished colonnades; and as they standopen and exposed, do now, as they did formerly,afford recreats to numbers of vagrants and law- BURIAL 316 BURNT-OFFERINGS less characters. The rocky valleys around Jerusa-lem exhibit numberless specimens of these sepul-chral Exterior of Sepulcher. (11) Monuments. Monuments of this elegantdescription were erected to many of the prophetsand other holy men who figured as prominentcharacters in the early history of Israel, and itseems to have been considered, in the degenerateage of our Lord, an act of great piety to repairand ornament with fresh devices the sepulchers ofthose ancient worthies (Matt. xxiii:29). The artand taste of the times would, of course, expendtheir chief resources in what was deemed thepatriotic service of adding fresh beauty and at-traction to edifices which contained such venera-
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