As a matter of fact, if God and any one of us were to change places things would be exactly as they are now, providing we received all that God is, and He became all that we are. The blasphemy which underlies such an epitaph as this is the implication that Martin Elginbrodde has more loving-kindness and tender mercy than God Almighty. The real truth, of course, is that man has less holiness, less justice.
Changing Places with God
Burton Stevenson, in his Home Book of Quotations, gives the following epitaph from an old English churchyard:
Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde; Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God,
As I wad do were I Lord God,
And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.