According to Jack Kirby at a San Diego Comic-Con appearance in the late 1980s, the inspiration for the size of the Wall comes from " Rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham ", a religious song that contains the lyrics, " So high you can't get over it / So low you can't get under it / So wide you can't get around it / You gotta go through the door ".
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Some Christians believe that death is a period of dormancy, or sleep in the body, or an Intermediate state, on Earth, or in the Bosom of Abraham, in which there is no consciousness and no Heavenly activity has yet begun-no judgment, no trip to heaven nor hell, based on their interpretation of the following scriptures : " The dead know not anything . . . Their love, their hatred, and their envy is now perished " ( Eccl . 9 : 5 ); " In death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave, who shall give thee thanks ? " ( Psalm 6 : 5 ); " The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence " ( Psalm 115 : 17 ); " The grave cannot praise thee : death cannot celebrate thee " ( Isaiah 38 : 18 ).
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There, following a prayer that the dead may rest " in the land of the living, in thy kingdom . . . in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ", etc ., is found this continuation : " And keep for us in peace, O Lord, a Christian, well-pleasing and sinless end to our lives, gathering us under the feet of thy Elect, when Thou willest and as Thou willest, only without shame and offence; through thy only begotten Son our Lord and God and Saviour, Jesus Christ . " We notice here the reference to the elect ( in " electorum tuorum grege " ), the prayer that we may be kept " in peace " ( " in tu?pace disponas " ), the allusion to the " end of our lives " ( " diesque nostros " ) and the unusual " " Per Christum Dominum nostrum " ", making a break in the middle of the Eucharistic prayer.
