lay in the grave

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So long as Christ lay in the grave there was no assurance that His redemptive work had been acceptable to God.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

Olive had been told that when people died, it was their bodies only that lay in the grave, and their souls went up to heaven to be with God.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

Some bison bones lay in the grave as if a food-offering had been made.

From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)

Like the lady who lay in the grave, and was ever after of the colour of a shroud, so I am white-souled, the past has left its mark with me for ever.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Note here, too, the mystic history of Osiris, how he put on death; how he lay in the grave; and how, thus fulfilling a solemn atonement, he rose again from the dead!

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron