A Resurrection Stone is a stone of immense weight which was hired out to prevent newly buried corpses from being stolen.
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Famous quotes containing the words resurrection and/or stone:
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)
“Now my saying shall be my undoing,
And every stone I wind off like a reel.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
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