_Burning dead Bodies._--In his remarks on "ashes to ashes," CINIS says
(Vol. i., p.22.) that "the burning of the dead does not appear to be in
itself an anti-christian ceremony," &c.: he is mistaken, for the early
Christians, like the Jews, never burned their dead, but buried them. The
catacombs of Rome and Naples, besides those in other places, were
especially used for sepulture; and if CINIS wish for proofs, he will find
an abundance in Rock's _Hierurgia_, t. ii. p. 802., &c.