3. _Religious_ places be they where the entire body of a man, or at least the head is buried: because no man can have two sepulchres. But the body or any member without the head doth not make the place wherein it is buried religious. But according to the civil law the corpse of a Jew, or paynim, or unbaptised infant maketh the place of its sepulchre religious: yet by the Christian religion and the canonical doctrine the body of a Christian alone maketh it so. And note that whatever is _sacred_ is _religious_; but the contrary holdeth not. But the afore-named religious place hath divers appellations: such be _cemetery, polyandrum_, or _andropolis_ (which is the same thing), _sepulchrum, mausoleum_ (which is also the same), _dormitorium, tumulus, monumentum, ergastulum, pyramid, sarcophagus, bustum, urna, spelunca_. 4. _Cemetery_ hath its name from _cimen_ which is _sweet_, and _sterion_, which is a _station_: for there the bones of the departed rest sweetly, and expect the advent of their Saviour. Or because there be therein _cimices_, that is reptiles of intolerable odour. 5. _Poliantrum_, from _pollutum antrum_, on account of the carcases of men therein buried. Or _poliantrum_ signifieth a multitude of men, from _polus_, which is a _plurality_, and _andros_, which is a man; and therefore a cemetery is so called on account of the number of men therein buried.' [Footnote 368] [Footnote 368: It has been thought right to give a few of the bishop's derivations, lest his translators should be accused of concealing a circumstance which may weaken, with some, his testimony on other points (though, as we have before shown, most unjustly): it has not, however, been thought necessary to follow him through all his names of a cemetery: since to do so would be a mere waste of the reader's time.] {83} [Sections 6 to 10 elided.] 11. Cemeteries are said to have their beginning from Abraham, who bought a field from Hebron: in which was a double cave, [Footnote 369] where he and Sarah were buried: there also Isaac and Jacob were buried: there also Adam and Eve. [Footnote 370] Therefore there was a double cave there: since they who buried therein were placed side by side, every man and his wife; or the men in the one, and their wives in the other: or because everyone there interred had a double cave, after the fashion of a chair. Whence saith Hierome, Three patriarchs are buried in the city Hebron, with their three wives. But they were buried as it were in a sitting posture: the upper part of the cave held the trunk from the loins: the lower the thighs and legs.