5. "That others have done so even after death upon a re-union of their souls and bodies." (H.) "There were not only certain persons under the law and among the Jews who were raised to life; but there were also histories among the Gentiles of several who rose the third day; and Plato mentioneth another who revived the twelfth day after death, _Plato de Rep._, lib. x.; _Plin._ lib. vii. 52., "De his qui elati revixerunt;" _Philostrat._ lib. iii. c. xiii."--_Pearson on the Creed._ There are histories of this description in _Bonifacii Hist. Ludiceæ_, p. 561. _et seq._ 6. "The opinion of the Pythagoreans and Platonists, &c., concerning the restitution of our bodies, and of all other things in the world to their former state, after the revolution of many ages, by a new birth or production." On the Platonic year confer Gale's _Court of the Gentiles_, book iii. c. 7.; on the Phoenix cycle of the Egyptians, Rev. Edw. Greswell's _Fasti Catholici and Origines Calendariæ_. By some this restitution is considered as merely astronomical, _v._ Costard's _Hist. of Astronomy_, p. 131. "The opinion of some of the Genethliacal writers, that the soul returns and is united to the same body in the space of 440 years."--_Varro ap Aug. de Civit._ xxii. 28.; Jackson's _Works_, vol. iii. p. 424. "The opinion of the Stoics concerning the reproduction of all the same men, &c., after the general conflagration," v. _Eusebii Praep. Evang._, lib. xv.; _M. Antonin. Imp._, lib. xi. The resurrection was asserted by the Persian Magi, the Indian Brachmans, and other philosophers both oriental and western. "Thus we have demonstrated what evident notices the heathens had of the last conflagration, with the ensuing judgment, and man's immortal state; and all from sacred oracles and traditions."--Gale, _ut suprà_. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. CAN A CLERGYMAN MARRY HIMSELF? (Vol. v., p. 370.) A Query has been put respecting a clergyman marrying himself. Such a thing did once occur in the case of the Rev. J. D. T. M. F----g, curate of the parish of S----n M----t, Somersetshire. The parish register informs us that-- "On three several Sundays, namely, on the 22nd and 29th days of July, and the 5th August in the year 1787, banns of marriage were published in the parish church between J. D. T. M. F----g and H. V. B----t; and after the third publication, no impediment being alleged, the said J. D. T. M. F----g and H. V. B----t were _immediately_ married in the face of the congregation, on the 5th of August, 1787, by J----n F----g curate."