Bible Encyclopedia: Rocks: Tombs often Hewn out of

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Letter Xlvi. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.
... As often as we enter it we see the Saviour in ... Lord, the evangelist Matthew tells
us: "The rocks rent, and ... Everywhere we venerate the tombs of the martyrs; we ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xlvi paula and eustochium.htm

The Tomb of the Pharaoh
... I watched him often at the work.". ... Somewhere among the rocks up the moonlit hollow
an owl hooted ... But the tombs he sought were in the upper end of the main ravine ...
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The Nile and Egypt
... But time has often dismantled their summits and loosened ... to cut his quarries and
his tombs; while the ... During the inundation, the rocks and sandbanks of the ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

The Memphite Empire
... incise the scenes which cover the surfaces of the rocks. ... the sovereign who had ordered
it and often the year ... texts, is elsewhere applied to the tombs of nobles ...
/.../chapter iithe memphite empire.htm

The Political Constitution of Egypt
... to south, leaving in every possible place marked traces of his visits"on the rocks
of Elephantine and ... They are often represented on the tombs beside their ...
/.../chapter ithe political constitution of.htm

Crucified, Dead, and Buried. '
... In the earthquake the rocks were rent, and their tombs opened. ... the sufferings of
those on the Cross, since the punishment of crucifixion often lasted not ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xv crucified dead and.htm

The First Theban Empire
... On one of the rocks of the island of Konosso ... Often also it was constructed partly
in the base, and ... not always an external chapel attached to these tombs, but a ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... Religion, human sacrifices, festivals; sacred stones"Tombs and the ... blocked with gravel
and fallen rocks, winds its ... to which the country was often exposed, or ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Eighteenth Theban Dynasty --(Continued)
... Building and ornamental woods are often mentioned in ... than one of the officers of
the crown whose tombs we see ... is that of the year VII., on the rocks of Konosso ...
/.../chapter ithe eighteenth theban dynastycontinued.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... as the Kabr-Hiram and other similar tombs correspond with ... not absorb all their resources,
and often left them ... banini, had engraved on the rocks overhanging the ...
/.../chapter iithe rise of the.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 22:16
What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here, as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that engraves an habitation for himself in a rock?
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

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