John Trapp on Jeremiah 8:1

CHAP. VIII.

Ver. 1. AT that time they ſhall bring out the bones] They ſhall not ſuffer the dead to reſt in their graves, Maximè propter ornamenta in ſepulchris condita, chiefly for the treaſure, the Chaldees ſhall there look for: See 2 Chron. 36.19. Neh. 2.3. Joſeph Antiq. lib. 13. chap. 15. Baruch 2.24. For extremity of deſpite alſo, A. D. 897. dead mens bones have been digged up. Pope Formoſus was ſo dealt with by his ſucceſſour Stephanus the ſixth: and many of the holy Martyrs, by their barbarous perſecutors.Act. & Mon. 1905. Ibid. 1784. Cardinal Paol had a purpoſe to have taken up King Henry the eighths body at Windſor, and to have burned it, but was prevented by death. Charles 5. would not violate Luthers grave, though he were ſolicited ſo to do, when he had conquered Saxony. But if he had, it had been never the worſe with Luther: who being asked where he would reſt? anſwered ſub caelo: Caelo tegitur qui caret urnâ. Of all foule, we moſt hate and deteſt the crows: and of all beaſts, the Jackalls (a kind of foxes in Barbary) becauſe the one digs up the graves and devours the fleſh, the other picketh out the eyes of the dead.