"Incineration" Quotes from Famous Books
... the body shall suffer (for of spiritual death we speak not now). It is not, though this be exitus a morte: it is introitus in mortem; though it be an issue from manifold deaths of this world, yet it is an entrance into the death of corruption and putrefaction, and vermiculation, and incineration, and dispersion in and from the grave, in which every dead man dies over again. It was a prerogative peculiar to Christ, not to die this death, not to see corruption. What gave him this privilege? Not Joseph's great proportion of gums and spices, that ... — Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Together with Death's Duel • John Donne |