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The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... migrated from temples to churches, after the closing of the ... believed to be one of
the stones with which the ... the praetorian camp, which had been used by members ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter i the transformation of.htm

Christian Cemeteries.
... works in metal and crystal, engraved stones, jewels, and ... from the praetorian camp
which were used to close ... The waves are closing over the persecutors, just as ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vii christian cemeteries.htm

The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... the robbers with five of his companions closing round them ... idol was surrounded by
a circle of stones like benches ... the Hill of Sion, where later I used often to ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xvi the flight into egypt.htm

Hymns of Suffering and Trust.
... absorption in God that could make the stones of her ... Hold Thou Thy cross before my
closing eyes; Shine ... boy, and so superstitious, that he used constantly to ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter v hymns of suffering.htm

The Doctrine of the Last Things.
... The events closing the Millennium are apostasy and rebellion (Rev ... This word is used
to describe the condition of ... of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber ...
/.../evans/the great doctrines of the bible/the doctrine of the last.htm

Appendix.
... as we have seen it builded up with living stones, which are ... of what we look on as
a century now closing. ... The Paten and Chalice just presented were used in the ...
/.../various/the sermons and addresses at the seabury centenary/appendix.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... war and pestilence, yea, lamentable woes." The closing lines of ... has expressions very
similar to those used by Hermas ... be slain by a shower of stones cast upon ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the sibylline oracles.htm

Questions About the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-Day ...
... or 'rest,' as applied to the Deity, are used in condescension ... the ministration of
death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious ... 'And the graves were opened ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/questions about the nature and.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... The list of precious stones which Pliny ... furnished by the inscriptions dealing with
the closing years of ... warlike nations II of the East, used neither saddle ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

The Iranian Conquest
... by his adversary, advanced against him with his hands full of stones"stones as large ...
The term Zend-Avesta, commonly used to designate the sacred book of the ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

Nave's Topical Index

Matthew 27:60
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.
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Mark 15:46
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.
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Mark 16:3
And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?
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Subtopics

Stones

Stones of Christ, "A Tested Stone" "A Precious Stone" "A Sure Foundation, "

Stones of Christ, the Water of Life

Stones of Christ's Rejection, the Rejected Conerstone

Stones of Temptation, "Stone of Stumbling"

Stones of the Impenitent Heart

Stones of the Witness of the Spirit, the White Stone

Stones used for Closing Graves

Stones used for Weighing (Margin)

Stones used in Building Altars