[5] Deut. xxviii. 26.
[6] Jer. viii. 2.
[7] Jer. xxxvi. 30.
[8] Eccles. vi. 3.
[9] Gen. xl. 19.
[10] 2 Sam. xxi. 10.
[11] 2 Sam. xx. 12.
[12] Smith’s “Dict. of the Bible,” s.v. Rizpah.
[13] Of justice, in that earth should be returned to earth, and dust to dust, for what could be more just than to restore to mother earth her children, ... that she might at last receive them again into her bosom, and afford them lodging till the resurrection? The ancients also thought it an act of mercy to hide the dead in the earth, that the organs of such divine souls might not be torn and devoured by wild beasts, birds, &c. T. Greenhill, “ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ,” p. 33.
[14] Dryden’s “Translation”—Æneid, lib. ix. v. 901.