Let us swallow them up alive as the grave
The innocent person, and those that are with him, his servants;
our gang is so numerous that we can very easily dispatch him and
all his attendants, and bury them out of sight at once, as if
they were swallowed up alive in a grave, and so no more to be
seen or heard of; and consequently we shall be in the utmost
safety and security, there being no traces of what is done, nor
any left to make a relation of it, or to give any information of
us, or to pursue us;
and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
who though whole and in perfect health, shall in a moment be
destroyed and cast into the pit, being first plundered of all the
riches they have about them; for this swallowing them up alive
and whole, which is an allusion to a beast of prey swallowing up
another creature all at once, not only intends their cruelty in
taking away life, but their rapaciousness in seizing upon their
substance.