Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 562
from the facttliat the refusal of the civil authorities to deliver to their friendsthe bodies of those who had suffered martyrdom was felt to be amatter of peculiar hardship. There seems to have been in the minds of some of the Church anapprehension that the appropriate burial of the body was… … Fig. 143.—A street of tombs leadinp: from Herculauemii Gate, Pompeii. were constrained to correct this false notion by careful instructionrespecting the doctrine of the resurrection. Xevertheiess, theChurch insisted upon decent bnrial whenever possible, and stronglycondemned neglect of this sacred…
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