RE: A question about tombs

From: Bill Ross (wross@farmerstel.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 1999 - 11:02:14 EST


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face=Arial size=2>{Tony}&nbsp;</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><SPAN
class=130074915-01041999>&nbsp;</SPAN>In Matthew's account of the resurrection,
he uses two words for tomb, one "<FONT color=#000000>tafos" in</FONT> 28.1 and
another "mnemeiou" in 28.8 .</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000>Any comments upon the possible significance of the different
words?</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=130074915-01041999>{Bill
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=130074915-01041999>Both
words are relating to the burial place, but the words have different nuances in
their origins which makes them precious reminders of the victory of Christ in
the resurrection in different ways.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=130074915-01041999>TAFOS
resonates with the funeral rites</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=130074915-01041999>MNEMEIOU has a sense of a memorial</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=130074915-01041999>So we
see the hope of the resurrection in contrast to the resignation to death and in
the contrast to the vain immortalizing of memory.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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