lay in the grave

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It told that Christ, who came to seek and save men's souls on earth, had continued that work in the world of the dead while His body lay in the grave.

From The Gospel of the Hereafter by Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson)

All Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night, His body lay in the grave; His soul was—where we cannot tell. 

From Twenty-Five Village Sermons by Kingsley, Charles

The words apply in their fullness only to the parenthesis of time whilst He lay in the grave, and the disciples despairingly thought that all was ended.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

She had taken her daughter to Egypt; she had dwindled there till there was little more than a skeleton to lay in the grave.

From Esther Waters by Moore, George (George Augustus)

I am a good ten years older than the man we are to lay in the grave.

From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)