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What the Fathers say

1 Kings 13:31

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

Well did the man who had deceived the man of God bury him with honor in his own tomb and give orders that he himself should be buried next to his bones, hoping thus to spare his own bones. He knew that the time would come according to the prophecy of that man of God when Josiah, king of the Jews, would dig up in the land the bones of many dead and with them defile the sacrilegious altars that had been set up for graven images. …

On the Care of the Dead 7.9 ↗