312 THE HOLY LAND. 
stone to the door of the sepulchre, and de- 
parted';" and it was afterwards '^ sealed and 
made sure-." Quaresmius, by an engraving' 
for the illustration of the mode of burial then 
practised, has shewn, according to a model 
familiar to the learned monk from his residence 
in the Holy Land where such sepulchres now 
exist, the sort of tomh described by the Evan- 
gelists. But there is nothing of this kind in 
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; nothing that 
can be reconciled with the history of our 
Saviour's burial. In order to do away this 
glaring inconsistency, it is affirmed that Mount 
Calvary was levelled for the foundations of the 
church; that the word a^og, mons, does not 
necessarily signify a mountain, but sometimes 
a small hill; that the sepulchre of Christ 
alone remained after this levelling had taken- 
place, in the centre of the area ; and that this 
was encased with marble! — not a syllable of 
which is supported by any existing evidence 
oiFered in the— contemplation of what is now 
,(l) Matfh. xwi'i. 60. 
(2) Ibid. V. 66. " So they went and made the sepulchre sure^ 
Bealin^ the stone." 
(3) Elucid. Terr. Sanct. torn, II. p. 529. Antuerp. 1639. 
