Resurrection Stone

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:

    So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.
    Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 15:42-45.

    Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.
    William Gibson (b. 1948)