Egypt in the picture

Egypt had also been a mighty power in the Middle East. The period of its greatness was about 1600 BC, when the armies of the conquering Pharaohs pressed southwards into the Sudan, westwards along the north African coast, and northwards through the land of Canaan (later Israel) and into Syria.
The land invaded by Nebuchadnezzar who overran Israel, sacked Jerusalem and burnt its temple, and carried thousands away captive to Babylon is now back in the picture with an opposite wealth. For 2500 years Egypt has remained, as Ezekiel prophesied it would, "a lowly kingdom", always dominated by others. But Egypt and the Egyptians did not disappear. They still exist, and though many claim that they have even recovered a measure of independence in recent times, thanks to massive financial support from the U.S.A. and Saudi Arabia, not many people got something from this economic funding.  Lots of the people have not enough to eat and no work. There were no prospects but now thousands have put their hope in a new peaceful revolution.

Egypt has been one of the United States' closest allies in the region but this governments’ reign now looks increasingly likely to fail.  This crisis follows the toppling of the Tunisian president a few weeks ago who fled the country after widespread protests forced him from office. Surely we see distress of nations and the sea and waves roaring. The sea and waves are symbolic of people raging against each other.

George W. Bush had previously pushed Hosni  Mubarak for democratic reforms but the head of state has perhaps promised a lot to his people and to the outside world, but kept 'his country' good in chains.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, with 600,000 members, stands for the re-establishment of the Islamic Empire (Caliphate), the takeover, spiritually or otherwise, of the entire world, and jihad and martyrdom. It has front organizations in the UK, France, and the United States. The danger exist that they are going to exploit the situation and the figure like Mohammed ElBaradei in order to hijack the Egyptian revolution at a later stage. We may not forget that that ever since the Brotherhood was founded over 80 years ago, it has engaged in political terrorism, assassinating Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nuqrashi Pasha in 1948, trying to kill President Abdul Nasser several years later, supports Hamas, and more.
The Egyptians should well be aware what it could implicate if the Moslim Brotherhood comes into the governement. A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt told the Arabic-language Iranian news network Al-Alam on Monday that he would like to see the Egyptian people prepare for war against Israel.

No casualties yet recorded by our brothers and sisters in Egypt. Our brothers and sisters seek seeing "(God's) righteousness" and find it important to try to develop a love of God's character, which means that we want to be worthy Christians showing our love for God His creation, our neighbours, and our love in God's Kingdom because righteousness will be glorified there.

We know that there is a fascinating prophecy in Isaiah 19 that speaks of God setting Egyptian against Egyptian. (Isaiah 19:2,4) As with all prophecies this has both a latter and future fulfilment. As we see Egyptian being set against Egyptian we see a latter day fulfilment now. In verse 4 of that chapter it speaks of a “fierce king” ruling over them. In fact Daniel 8:23 speaks of this fierce king. He is none other than the king of the north who will invade Egypt.

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus describes the nations (multitudes) rising up against nations (multitudes). This month we got reverberations from the mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt to be felt around the Arab world. Is it the woe of the multitude of people? US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the Middle East is facing a "perfect storm" of unrest and nations must embrace democratic change. Democracy (Liberty or freedom of the people from monarchies)  is one of the froglike spirits spoken of in Revelation 16 which gather all nations to battle. Brother Andy Walton agrees with Hilary Clinton:" We can see before our eyes how this spirit of people power will indeed bring war and conflict.... – the status quo is simply not sustainable. There is a day in which God will judge the earth by that man who he has appointed – even Jesus Christ."

Compromise and accomodation

A summary of the Bible Hour presentation at the Christadelphian Hall, Blackpool Street, Burton-upon-Trent on Sunday 5th December 2010 on the compromise and accommodation between Christianity and the religions and philosophies of the world can be found in: The Trinity: paganism or Christianity?

What had once been a simple faith which could be understood by the man in the street, became a complex system of theology which was the preserve of an educated elite. The Christian church became an establishment with political influence and political power. It also became divided.

You also can find more about the historical developments how the Trinity came in to Christianity at the Belgian Biblestudents in the continuation from the articles:  The First Century of Christianity & Positioning of those in power, in Power and position and to be published later Early days of Christianity: Minimizing the power of God’s Force the Holy Spirit; Second Century; Hellenistic influences; Politics and power first priority; Blending of Jewish, Oriental, and Hellenic thought; a.o.

What Jesus sang

As Christmas Eve approaches, monks and nuns in their monasteries will chant Midnight Mass and many of the world's one billion Christians will sing some sort of Christmas music, secular or sacred. And so, we ask: What did Jesus sing? The answer is not simple. But perhaps of even greater importance is the question of whether what Jesus sang influenced the future liturgical music of the Catholic Church, which came to be known as Gregorian chant.

Jesus knew how to recite, rather than perform, the scriptures -- a practice that developed in the more than 300 synagogues that existed in Jerusalem before the Romans destroyed the Temple. This oral tradition of synagogue cantillation has survived unbroken among the Jewish people for more than 2,000 years and still flourishes today. Over the centuries communities in Spain, Eastern Europe and as far away as Iraq, Persia, Yemen and Uzbekistan have developed their own unique styles of cantillation.

Anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield, writing in a leading Canadian newspaper, explores the relation between the synagogue music of Jesus’ time and Gregorian chant.
The Sacred Bridge, a CD recording that features Psalm 114, “oscillates between Latin and Hebrew, Gregorian chant and synagogue cantillation,” writes Clarfield. “The melodies are identical and despite the alteration between Hebrew and Latin you would think you were listening to the same song. In fact, you probably are, for no doubt this is a distant echo of what Jesus sang.”
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• Geoffrey Clarfield: What did Jesus sing? (National Post)

What did Jesus sing?

At the Passover Seder Jesus and his disciples most likely recounted, in story and song, the exodus of the Jewish people from their bondage in Egypt over a thousand years earlier. In verse 30 we are told that "when they had sung the hymn they went to the Mount of Olives." 

Anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield, writing in a leading Canadian newspaper, explores the relation between the synagogue music of Jesus’ time and Gregorian chant.

The Sacred Bridge, a CD recording that features Psalm 114, “oscillates between Latin and Hebrew, Gregorian chant and synagogue cantillation,” writes Clarfield. “The melodies are identical and despite the alteration between Hebrew and Latin you would think you were listening to the same song. In fact, you probably are, for no doubt this is a distant echo of what Jesus sang.”

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

• Geoffrey Clarfield: What did Jesus sing? (National Post)

Revival of Jesus’ language at Oxford

Christ's endangered language gets new lease of life in Oxford

An Aramaic course offered by Oxford University is drawing scores of scholars from as far afield as Liverpool and London .

Some 56 scholars are now studying the Aramaic language there, outpacing the number of those currently studying classical Greek.It is the language that Christ spoke, but is regarded as "endangered" with ever fewer scattered groups of native speakers.

David Taylor has previously taught the language to groups of two or three people in his study, and was astounded by the turnout for his first public lesson. Though a few fell by the wayside, more than 40 stayed the course until the classes ended in time for Christmas.
John Ma, an Oxford classicist and one of the leaders of Project Arshama which organised the lessons, said: "You would probably have to go back 2,000 years to find a room so full with people speaking Aramaic – the time when Jesus would have been speaking the language."
Dialects of Aramaic – a 3,000-year-old language once spoken by millions across the Mediterranean and near east, from Syria to the borders of India – are still spoken, but Taylor believes the war may push it to the verge of extinction in Iraq.
His students were learning imperial Aramaic, from his own newly devised grammar, which is intended to be easier to learn as a beginner. They were not entirely convinced. Boris Chrubasik, an Oxford classics graduate, said: "Getting used to a semitic language is all but easy, and when the radicals start dropping one gets upset." However, he insisted staunchly: "Learning Aramaic is fun."
Most of the students were postgrad classicists like Chrubasik, but some theologians and biblical scholars came too.
Ma, a fellow and tutor at Corpus Christi, took the lessons himself and is beginning to dream in Aramaic. Very dull dreams, he admits. "Mostly verb paradigms (since there's some rote learning, as with other languages) and once saying to someone, 'Mindeam la avdeth anah' … I didn't do anything."
And he ruefully quotes a fellow student on mastering a particular vowel sound, "a guttural throat sound not unlike incipient vomiting".
However, after two lessons he could read in the original the words spoken by Christ on the cross: "My God, my God why did you forsake me." After eight, he realised to his surprise that he could understand the Aramaic dialogue in Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ.
"It was very satisfying, it's not always like that when you learn a new language," he said.
The lessons were organised by Oxford University's classics faculty and faculty of oriental studies as part of Project Arshama, a collaboration between the universities of Oxford and Liverpool, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project is focused on one of the treasures of the vast Bodleian library, the 13 Arshama letters, written on leather in the Persian empire in the 5th century BC – priceless to scholars because so many documents on parchment or clay have not survived. There will be a seminar and an exhibition on the letters next summer.
Ma has supplied some useful Aramaic phrases for the season (with a nervous eye on his tutor, because he's not quite sure he's got all his vowels right):
• "Shelam biznah qodemay, ap tamah qodemayk shelam", from a letter written 2,500 years ago, translates as "Peace here before me, and also peace over there before you", but colloquially means "I am well, and hope you're well too".
• "Anah rahem leki" (from a man to a woman) and "Anah rahmah lak" (from a woman to a man), which means "I love you".
• "Shelam we sherarat saggi hawseret leki" for "I have sent you peace and much strength".

Apple of Gods eye

“For  thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the  nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple  of his eye.”(Zechariah 2:8 ASV)

God has revealed himself to the world in ways that we can understand.  He has given us His Word in which He also shows His concern about the  Jews – God’s people and the ‘apple of his eye’ (Zechariah 2:8).

God chose Israel as a nation to show forth his glory:
“For  thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath  chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples  that are upon the face of the earth.” (Deuteronomy 7:6 ASV)

God said that the Jews are the evidence of his existence:
“Ye  are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen;  that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me  there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:10  ASV)
Genesis chapter 12. God made promises to  Abraham, the first Jew – that  he would have descendants (the Jews), a  land (Israel), that because of  him not just they but the whole world  would be blessed. Jehovah  made further promises to Abraham's ancestors ,   Isaac and Jacob.

Much  later, in Galatians 3 verse 16, we learn  that these promises also refer  to Jesus Christ: “To Abraham and his  seed were the promises made,” and  that seed (descendant) is Jesus.The  covenant later  opened out to include people of all races who are  faithful (Galatians  3:28-29;  Psalm 103:17-18; Psalm 50:16-23).

There  are prophecies about the nation that are yet to be fulfilled. All  the  indications are that they will be fulfilled soon. (Read Zechariah   chapters 12 and 13.)

Read more about it in:

• Israel proves the existence of God

• God’s offer to man: eternal life on a peaceful earth

• The Jews, the Holocaust and the Bible

Significance Queen Elizabeth II in relation to Bible prophecy

Andy Walton wrote on the significance of Queen Elizabeth II in relation to Bible prophecy.

Click here to download a PDF of the slides. (7mb)
Within the PDF is the link to download the AUDIO.

New articles by Andy Walton

Andy Walton gave a talk recently on the significance of Queen Elizabeth II in relation to Bible prophecy.
Click here to download a PDF of the slides. (7mb)
Within the PDF is the link to download the AUDIO.

Another article you may be interested in is about how Jesus might return.
Click here to download the PDF of this article.
Another new article is on the question of God's involvement in the earthquake in Haiti.
Click here to download the PDF of this article

Younger generation increasingly pro-life

Polling data, record crowds at the 2009 and 2010 March for Life in Washington, and a steep increase in the number of student pro-life groups over the past four years provide evidence that those born between the late 1970s and late 1990s are more pro-life than the baby boomer generation.
“Communications technology through organizations like Live Action, Students for Life and Catholic Vote are giving us terrific images that we know are changing hearts,” says Steve Phelan, communications manager for Human Life International.
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• Generation Y: The Pro-Life Generation (National Catholic Register)

Church enemy of faith

Has the Church become the enemy of faith, an unwelcome intruder into the believer’s pious solitude. For the modern mind, it would be like the commodity choosing the buyer, since religion, like sex and commerce, is just another act between consenting adults, which by implication makes the authority of creeds the doctrinal equivalent of annoying chaperones.

Francis J. Beckwith,  Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University,  thinks this is the case. He says: "As long as “Church” was something that was under me rather than me under it, I was doomed to a life of ecclesiastical promiscuity despite my best efforts to practice safe sects."

According Protestant professor, Carl Trueman of Westminster Theological Seminary "not being a Catholic should be a positive act of will and commitment, something we need to get out of bed determined to do each and every day. It would seem, however, that . . . many who call themselves evangelical really lack any good reason for such an act of will; and the obvious conclusion, therefore, should be that they do the decent thing and rejoin the Roman Catholic Church."

Francis J. Beckwith his book: Return to Rome: Confessions of An Evangelical Catholic.

His blog: Return to Rome. 

His lecture:  “Faith, Reason and the Christian Citizen.”

National Natural Disaster and Bible Prophecy

Is God in control of the National Natural Disasters which crossed Australia? What is the role of Britain in Bible Prophecy?

Andy Walton looks specifically at the Queen of Sheba, Tarshish and Tyre and how they are all linked.
Andy made a cd which includes TWO Bible talks. The Natural National Disaster talk was given as a public lecture recently. It should be beneficial for anyone including interested friends. The Role of Britain in Bible Prophecy was given as a Bible Class and does assume a basic understanding of our core beliefs. eg Christ's return. Both talks have the full powerpoint and audio in a video format.

How does the CD work?

The CD only works on a computer. It runs automatically. The video file is in a WMV format and should work fine on all computers.
NOTE: If you have a MAC the CD will not autorun but you can open the CD, find the files and open from there.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER the Audio Visual Powerpoint

email: email@andywalton.co.uk

web: http://www.weeklyworldwatch.co.uk

Congregation - Congregatie

Congregatie (kongregatie): congregation (ME congregacioun fr.  MF & L congregation, congregatio), the act of congregating,: an assemblage of persons (or things); gathering, assembly of persons, body of Christians, body of believers; company or order of religious persons; deliberative meeting of governing body.  In the Old Testament a name given to the children of Israel.
F: Congrégation D: Gemeinde I: Parrocchiani

Under this tag "congregatie" you shall be able to find articles mostly talking about the community of men that together want to come to serve God.  The church community or fixed group of men that is part of an ecclesia or church. 

Further it shall be about the Old Testament name given to the children of Israel, the chosen People of God as used in. 

The community of men that stand behind one and the same belief point.  The administration body of a community.  Association of lay people or of clergymen who under ecclesiastic approval hold religious service.

But it can also be about 'The Congregation' (= collection, official name:  Sodali' tium, Sodaliteit'), a particular kind of pious association, with as purpose to perform godly work or charity. 

The congregation distinguishes itself of the usual pious association, because they are organized as a specific organic corporation, the members (congreganists) having the right to vote.  The Congregationalists or congregation members of The Congregation are also members of a brotherhood, set up to promote public service. 

In the Catholic Church the Congregations must be set up or approved by the competent ecclesiastic authorities.  As there are the Roman Congregations, Religious Congregation and Mary-congregation. 

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Association, the members, the associated, those serving together and taking up an engagement, the belonging to, the inaugurated, the togetherness or assembling, the people meeting, the company, the alliance, confederation

confrery, confrère, partnership, trade-union, circle, federation, body, corps, corporation,  apostate, division, section, branching, department, clique, circle, coterie, club, debating-club, circle of friends, desk, collegium, governor, members list, guild,guildsmen, guildstaf, assembly, meeting, session, assembly, council session, members assembly, convent, conference

Congregatie (kongregatie) of broedergemeenschap, broederschap, gemeente of parochie, communiteit, geaffilieerden, aangeslotenen.

Op onze bladzijden zal het meestal gaan over de gemeenschap van mensen die samen willen komen om God te dienen.  De kerkgemeenschap of vaste groep van mensen die behoren tot een ecclesia of kerk.

Verder veel gebruikt voor de in het Oude Testament gegeven naam aan de kinderen van Israël, het verkozen Volk van God.

De gemeenschap van mensen die achter eenzelfde geloofspunt staan.  Bestuurslichaam van een gemeenschap.  Vereniging van leken of van geestelijken die onder kerkelijke goedkeuring godsdienstoefeningen houden.

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Vereniging, de leden, de geassocieerden, diegenen die samen een engagement aangaan, de toebehorenden, de ingewijden of de ingekochten, de samen of bijeenkomenden, de samentreffenden, het gezelschap, de sociëteit, bondgenootschap, eedgenootschap,

aartsbroederschap, gildebroederschap, confrérie, vennootschap, veem, vakvereniging, kring, bond, lichaam, korps, corps, corporatie, gilde, apostolaat, afdeling, sectie, vertakking, departement, clique, cercle, coterie, club, debatingclub, vriendenkring bestuur, bureau, collegium, bestuurder, ledenlijst, gildestaf, vergadering, samenkomst, bijeenkomst, zitting, vergadering, raadszitting, achterraad, ledenvergadering, convent, congres, meeting,

groepsvertegenwoordiging, plenum vergaderplaats, vergaderzaal, verenigingslokaal, raadkamer, sociëteit, rendez-vous, gildehuis, gildekamer, kerkgemeenschap, godsdienstige groepering, godsdienstoverleg, overlegorgaan, geloofsorgaan de opname, aggregatie, incorporatie, coöperatie, voorzitting, leiding godsvruchtig orgaan, godvrezend orgaan, godsdienstige vereniging, godgevallige groepering, godgezinden, godminnenden, godlievenden, godverheerlijkenden,vromen, kerkgezinden,kerksen, heiligbegerigen, hemelsgezinden,godgelaten, devoten, religieuzen, pieuzen, piëtisten, God dienenden/prijzende/lovenden/erenden, godsgetrouwen

kerkbestuur, kerkregering, Bijbelcommissie, Bijbelgenootschap, Bijbelgetrouwen, herderlijke vereniging/genootschap, kloosterling, woudbroeder, heremiet, eremiet, kloostervolk, ordegeestelijken, ordebroeders, regulieren, lekenbroeders, kloosterjuffers, kloosterzusters, kloosternonnen, kloostermaagden, zusters, bruiden des Heer, masoeurs, koorvrouwen, van de wereld wegtrekkenden/terugtrekkenden,


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De Congrega'tie (= verzameling, officiele naam: Sodali'tium, Sodaliteit'), een bijzonder soort vrome vereniging, met als doel het verrichten van godvruchtige of liefdadige werken.

De congregatie onderscheidt zich van de gewone vrome vereniging, doordat zij als organieke corporatie is ingericht, d.  w.  z.  dat de leden (congreganisten) stemrecht of zeggenschap hebben.  De congreganisten of congregatieleden van de Congregatie zijn ook leden van een broederschap, opgericht ter bevordering van de openbare eredienst.

De Congregaties moeten in de Katholieke Kerk door de bevoegde kerkelijke overheid zijn opgericht of goedgekeurd.
Zo zijn er de Romeinse Congregaties, Religieuze Congregatie en Mariacongregatie.

To compare - Vergelijken

Under the Tag "vergelijken" compare, compare with/to, equate, you shall be able to find articles on the matter God and Jesus called us to compare matters, writings and thoughts with the different verses in the Holy Scriptures and consider what God really wants or what He let us know.

compare ME comparen MF comparer fr L compare to couple together, fr compare like similar fr com-+par equal so to represent a similar or equal thought or saying. To set together so as to ascertain how far things agree or disagree, to make comparison. We do have to check the thought against Biblical teaching and see how much it differs or stand out in some particular respect or confirm the equality in the different sayings.

Collate, contrast, compare indicates the placing together and examining of two things to discover resemblances and differences. It may or may not concentrate on similarities rather than dissimilarities.

Vergelijken houdt in dat men twee of meerdere dingen naast elkaar gaat plaatsen en daarin de gelijkenissen of de verschillen gaat onderzoeken. Men kan zo teksten met elkaar vergelijken, als het ware naast elkaar plaatsen om eventueel verschil of overeenkomst op te sporen. Dat naast elkaar stellen kan belangrijk zijn om na te gaan of de vertelde zaken in overeenstemming zijn of dat zij voldoen aan de waarheid. God en Jezus geven ons zo de opdracht de dingen naast elkaar te stellen, in verband met elkaar beschouwen om overeenstemming of verschil vast te stellen tussen de betrokken personen, zaken, toestanden, enz..

Bij Bijbelstudie moeten wij aldus vergelijkend te werk gaan.  Zo moeten wij nagaan welke overeenkomsten er zijn in bepaalde Schriftplaatsen. Indien men iets aanhaalt moeten wij die tekst tegenover  andere passages in de Bijbel in het licht durven stellen en telkens nagaan of het overeen komt met andere uitingen in de Heilige Schrift.

De vergelijking is het naast elkaar leggen en beschouwen van verschillende uitingen, zaken, tekst aanhalingen, om overeenkomsten of verschillen te kunnen onderscheiden en bij het vinden van al of niet gelijkenissen daar een besluit te kunnen uit nemen.

Het vergelijken houdt soms ook de durf in om tegenover elkaar te stellen en de tegenstellingen verder te onderzoeken. Tegenoverzetten, tegenoverstellen, tegenoverplaatsen, opponeren.

Onder de Verwijzing of Tag "vergelijken" kan u verder artikelen vinden die verband houden met het vergelijken, met elkaar confronteren of tegenoverstellen.

Vergelijken, bij elkaar brengen, confronteren, reconfronteren, confer, confereren, parallellen trekken

vergelijking, confrontatie,confronteren,  reconfrontering, equatie, herleidbare vergelijking, gelijkheid, onderling afhankelijke vergelijking, onderling strijdende vergelijking, gelijkstelling,
vergelijkenderwijze, bij middel van vergelijking

ongelijkheid, onbepaald stelsel, vals stelsel, eliminatie, substitutie, vervanging, in-de-plaats-stelling

To be carried away - meeslepen of laten verleiden

Zich laten meeslepen of zich er toe laten verleiden om op andere gedachten over te stappen of mee te gaan in andere denkwijzen.

Under the Tag "meeslepen" "carry away","to carry off" shall you be able to find articles on the way people can be carried away, or carried with or sweep along. It is about the ability to fall for something else.

Deprive of self control by exciting or more interesting feelings and thoughts.
Letting yourself being lead along or influenced by mental or emotional appeal.
To allow an opponent to make a good showing by lessening one's opposition or to adapt your ideas to the other.
But also to demean oneself and lowering his status, reputation, or dignity, by doing wrong actions.

Letting yourself being dragged away can restrain that one comes on the path of decline instead of coming on the way to eternal life.

Onder het Etiket ""meeslepen": "meesleuren"," overhalen" zal u artikelen kunne vinden over de wijze waarop mensen kunnen meegesleurd worden om van gedachten te veranderen. Het gaat over de mogelijkheid of bekwaamheid om voor iets anders te vallen of nog beter gezegd de onmogelijkheid om tot een bepaald idee te blijven of stand te houden. Beroofd van zelfcontrole door het opwekken of meerdere gevoelens en gedachten. Zichzelf van zijn lood laten brengen door geestelijk of emotioneel beïnvloeding. Toe te staan dat een tegenstander een goede beurt maakt door het verminderen van een oppositie of zijn eigen ideeën aan de andere aan te passen. Maar ook naar de verlaging van zichzelf en het neer brengen van zijn status, reputatie of waardigheid, door het doen verkeerde acties.

verglijden, afwijken, afschavelen, glippen, wegglippen, ontslippen, ontschieten, zich laten uitschuiven, afdwalen, zich laten afleiden, zich laten prikkelen, zich laten aanhitsen/ophitsen,  doordrongen worden van iets, iets aangepraat worden, zich iets laten inscherpen, op zich laten inpraten, onder de invloed van iemand of iets geraken, door iemand ergens aan toe gebracht worden, overhaald worden door iets of iemand, voor iets of iemand gewonnen geraken, door iets of iemand worden aangedreven

weerklank vinden, nawerken, raad aannemen, zich laten gezeggen, zich laten afkopen, gaande raken, opmaken, opzetten, iemand achterna lopen, laten meeslepen, laten omkopen, afkopen, bekopen, bestoppen

met klinkende woorden overhaald worden, met een natte vinger te verleiden zijn, zijn handen laten zalven, met een gouden net (hengel) vissen, de gouden sleutel aannemen om ergens binnen te komen

iets op het hart gedrukt krijgen,

Het zich laten meeslepen kan inhouden dat men op het pad terecht komt van verval in plaats van op de weg naar eeuwig leven.

Decomposition, decay - vergaan, afsterven, ontbinding

De ontbinding (decomposition, decay)of het vergaan door bacteriële omzetting van eiwitstoffen (vooral van lijken en kadavers) (corruption of the body after death), maar ook de opheffing (dissolution, disbandment, annulment, rescission) van iets.

Under the Tag "ontbinding" we shall mainly look at the situation after death, which is discribed in the Bible as the givingup of the spirit (pneuma) (Luke 23:46) and the laying down or departure of the soul (= any living thing; AV: life; Greek: psuche) (John 10:11,15,17). After we die our body is going to decompose, decay, rot, putrefy, spoil meaning to undergo destructive dissolution. When the body is not put in an incinnerator or on a firestake the body shall slowly change from a state of soundness or humanly form to dust. It shall decompose and break down by chemical change.

decay
c.1460, from O.Fr. decair,  from V.L. *decadere  "to fall off," from L. cadere  "to fall" (Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper )
Latin decadere to fall, sink, from Latin de- + cadere to fall
: break down, corrupt, decompose, disintegrate, fester, foul, mold, molder, perish [chiefly British], putrefy, rot, spoil, fall apart, go to seed (or run to seed) (Merriam-Webster Dict.)


A gradual falling into an inferior condition; progressive decline as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action. The decomposition  suggests the reducing of a substance to its component elements; and the disintegration  emphasizes the breaking up, going to pieces, or wearing away of anything, so that its original wholeness is impaired.
Often people would like not to hear that the body also can rot away. Rot  being a stronger word than decay  and esp. applied to decaying vegetable matter, which may or may not emit offensive odors.
Decay can denote partial deterioration short of complete destruction.



putrefaction, deterioration, decadence, impairment, dilapidation, degeneration.

After death the body returns to the earth, while the mind becomes inactive and leaves the person without the capacity to think, act or react. (Psalm 164:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) with everybody is going to happen as with the animals and the plants, once the soul, the being itself dies, having no superiority to the rest of the creation, men shall also go to the same place (sheool, the grave) and rot away to return to dust.(Ezekiel 18:4; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)

Onder de verwijzer of  Etiket "ontbinding" zullen wij hoofdzakelijk de toestand na dood onder de loep nemen. De artikelen zullen bespreken wat er gebeurt na de toestand van het sterven, die in de Bijbel als het opgeven van de geest (pneuma) wordt genoemd (Lukas 23:46) ook beschreven als het neerleggen of vertrek van de ziel (= levende dingen; AV: leven; Griek: psuche) (Johannes 10:11,15,17). Nadat wij gestorven zijn gaat ons lichaam ontbinden, desintegreren, vervallen, rotten, bederven. Bederven om vernietigende ontbinding te ondergaan. Wanneer het lichaam in een incinnerator of verbrandingsoven is gezet of op een brandstapel wordt gelegd kan het zeer vlug over gaan tot asse. Indien het echter begraven wordt zal het lichaam langzaam van een staat van schijnbare uiterlijke gezondheid of menselijk vorm veranderen om tot stof. Het zal door chemische verandering wijzigingen ondergaan en desintegreren.



De ontbinding is een geleidelijk vervallen tot een minderwaardige toestand; progressieve afname tengevolge van bacteriële, schimmel of chemische actie. De decompositie stelt de verminderen van een substantie naar zijn componentonderdelen voor; en het uiteenvallen benadrukt het afbrekingsproces,  het tot gaat stukken uiteenvallen, zodat de oorspronkelijke heelheid geschaad wordt.

Dikwijls zouden mensen het liever niet willen  horen dat het lichaam ook weg kan rotten. Rot zijnde een sterker woord dan verval en specifiek toegepaste op het vervallen van groentematerie, welke onaangename geuren kan teweeg brengen.
Verval kan de gedeeltelijke achteruitgang aanduiden tegenover die van volledige vernietiging.

Bederf, achteruitgang, decadentie, beschadiging, verval, degeneratie.

Na dood keert het lichaam terug naar de aarde, terwijl de geest inactief wordt en de  persoon zonder de capaciteit tot denken, te handelen of te reageren laat. (Psalm 164:4, Prediker 9:5.10) Met iedereen gaat het zoals met de dieren en de planten, zodra de ziel, het wezen zelf sterft, heeft het geen superioriteit naar het overige van de creatie, mensen zullen ook naar dezelfde plaats (sheool, het graf) gaan en zullen weg rotten om terug te keren naar stof. (Ezechiël 18:4; Prediker 3:19-20)


afsterven, bederven, in verval raken, aftakelen, bederf, verval, aftakeling, creperen, creveren,

ter ziele gaan, aas worden,

de laatste tol aan de natuur betalen, de weg van alle vlees gaan, naar het pierenland gaan, het pierenkuiltje ingaan,

Grave, tomb, sepulchre - graf, begraafplaats, rustplaats, sepulcrum

Het graf (grave, tomb, sepulchre) of opbergruimte voor een lijk of dood lichaam, de grafstede alsook de plaats waar iemand begraven ligt (burial place, resting place).

[Old English græf;  related to Old Frisian gref,  Old High German grab,  Old Slavonic grobǔ; ] (Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition )
O.E. græf  "grave, ditch," from P.Gmc. *graban  (cf. O.S. graf,  O.Fris. gref,  O.H.G. grab  "grave, tomb;" O.N. gröf  "cave," Goth. graba  "ditch"), from PIE base *ghrebh-/*ghrobh-  "to dig, to scratch, to scrape" (cf. O.C.S. grobu  "grave, tomb"); related to grafan  "to dig"). (Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper )
1150–1200;  ME sepulcre  < OF < L sepulcrum,  equiv. to sepul-  (var. stem of sepelīre  to bury) + -crum  n. suffix of place (Dictionary.com Unabridged )
tomb: 1225–75;  ME tumbe  < AF; OF tombe  < LL tumba  < Gk týmbos  burial mound; akin to L tumēre  to swell. (Dictionary.com Unabridged )
from Old French tombe,  from Late Latin tumba  burial mound, from Greek tumbos;  related to Latin tumēre  to swell, Middle Irish tomm  hill (Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition )
tomb

c.1275, from Anglo-Fr. tumbe,  O.Fr. tombe  (12c.), from L.L. tumba  (cf. It. tomba , Fr. tombe , Sp. tumba ), from Gk. tymbos  "burial mound, grave, tomb," from PIE base *teu-  "to swell" (see thigh). The final -b  began to be silent 14c. (cf. lamb, dumb). ... A tombstone  (1565) originally was a horizontal stone covering a grave (or the lid of a stone coffin); meaning "gravestone, headstone" is attested from 1711.

(Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper )

sepulchre - a chamber that is used as a grave  

burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulture

chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space

crypt - a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

tomb, grave - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"

mausoleum - a large burial chamber, usually above ground

monument, repository - a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

burial vault, vault - a burial chamber (usually underground)
(Collins Thesaurus of the English Language)

catacomb, crypt, final resting place, last home, mausoleum, mound, permanent address, place of interment, resting place, sepulcher, shrine, six feet under, tomb, vault

boneyard, God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, cemetery, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave , graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault

Under the tag "graf" you shall be able to find articles on any excavation made in the earth in which a dead body can be buried. Any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past, the last place of interment; a tomb or sepulchre.
It is about a place for the burial of a corpse, which can be beneath the ground but also above the earth in a special build construction, a cavity in a mensa, a vault or mausoleum and usually marked by a tombstone.

The sepulchre is first mentioned in the Bible as the burialplace or grave purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Genesis 23:20). This was the "cave of the field of Machpelah," where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were burried (79:29-32). That place was considered as the unseen world: Hades and Sheool, were since the first sin entered the wold also death came by it and therefore every element of creation had to face death and decay without any difference between plant, animal or human. (Ecclesiastes 3:19,20) All had to go to that one place, the grave, to become dust again. (Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7) In Acts 7:16 it is said that Jacob was "laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem." Moses, Elisha, King David were placed in a sepulchre. Kings (1 Kings 2:10) and prophets (1 Samuel 25:1) were generally buried within cities. Graves were generally grottoes or caves, natural or hewn out in rocks (Isaia 22:16; Matthew 27:60). There were family cemeteries (Genesis 47:29; 50:5; 2 Samuel 19:37). Public burial-places like gehenna outside Jerusalem, were assigned to the poor (Jeremia 26:23; 2 Kings 23:6). Graves were usually closed with stones, which were whitewashed, to warn strangers against contact with them (Matthew 23:27), which caused ceremonial pollution (Numeri 19:16). There were no graves in Jerusalem except those of the kings, and according to tradition that of the prophetess Huldah.
Joseph of Arimathea provided his own newly made sepulchre for use of Jesus from Nazareth (Matthew 27:57-60) who also went into the hel of death.


Onder het etiket "graf" zal u artikelen vinden welke betrekking hebben op de rustplaats van afgestorvenen. Het graf kan daar gaan om een kuil in de aarde, een opgraving gemaakte in de aarde waarin een lijk kan begraven worden. Maar ook over enige andere plaats waar datgene dat dood is, het leven verloren heeft tot rust wordt gebracht of als laatste plaats krijgt van een ter aarde bestelling of begrafenis; een graf of sepulcrum, grafkelder, grafspelonk, graftombe. Het is over een plaats voor de begrafenis van een lijk, dat onder het terrein kan zijn maar ook boven de aarde in een speciale opbouw, een holte in een mensa, een gewelf, stenen grafmonument,  graftempel of mauseleum en gewoonlijk gemarkeerd door een grafsteen. Een grafspelonk daarentegen is de rotsen uitgehouwen uitgehouwen grot, waarin het lijk kan geplaatst worden.



Het sepulcrum wordt eerst in de Bijbel als de begraafplaats of graf vermeld dat door Abraham voor Sarah van Ephron de Hettiet werd gekocht  (Genesis 23:20). Dit was het "hol van het veld van Machpelah", waar ook Abraham en Rebekah en Jacob en Leah werden begraven (79:29-32). Die plaats werd als de ongeziene wereld beschouwd: Hades en Sheool. Deze plaatsen waren, aangezien door de eerste zondeval in de wereld ook de dood tot iedereen gekomen was, voor eenieder onderdeel van de schepping de tegemoet teziene laatste rustplaats. In de dood zou voor iedereen en alles verval optreden, zonder verschil tussen plant, dier of mens. (Prediker 3:19.20) Iedereen moest naar die plaats, het graf, gaan om opnieuw stof  te worden. (Gensis 3:19; Prediker 12:7) In Handelingen van de Apostelen 7:16 wordt gezegd dat Jacob "in het sepulcrum werd gelegd dat Abraham van de zonen van Emmor de vader van Sychem voor een som geld had gekocht". Mozes, Elisha, Koning David werden in een sepulcrum geplaatst. Koningen (1 Koningen 2:10) en profeten (1 Samuel 25:1) werden algemeen binnen steden begraven. Graven waren algemeen grotten of holen, natuurlijke of uit rotsen gehouwde holten (Jesaja 22:16; Mattheus 27:60). Er waren familiebegraafplaatsen (Genesis 47:29; 50:5; 2 Samuel 19:37). Openbare begraaf-plaatsten zoals Gehenna buiten Jeruzalem, werden aan de armen toegewezen (Jeremia 26:23; 2 Koningen 23:6). Graven werden gewoonlijk met stenen afgesloten, welke werden witgewassen, om vreemden te waarschuwen tegen contact met hen (Mattheus23:27), welk ceremoniële vervuiling veroorzaakte (Numerieken 19:16) . Er waren geen graven in Jeruzalem behalve die van de koningen en volgens traditie die van de profetes Huldah. Joseph van Arimathea verzorgde zijn eigen pas gemaakt sepulcrum voor gebruik voor Jezus van Nazareth (Matthew 27:57-60) die ook door zijn dood in "de hel" ging.

Graf, begraafplaats, grafplaats, grafakker, Gods Akker, Akker des Heren, dodenakker, Golghotha, catacombe, crypte, sarcofaag, bijzetplaats, ter aarde bestelling, grafruimte, grafstede, grafkuil, aardkuil, pottenbank, familiegraf, erfgraf, kindergraf, grafspelonk, koepelgraf, keldergraf, familiekelder, grafgewelf, crypte, grafgang, eregraf, praalgraf, tombe, eretombe, mausoleum, columbarium, urneplaats, urnemuur, reuzengraf, hunnebed, grafheuvel, grafterp, tumulus, piramide, konus, pantheon

grafmonument, cenotaphium, dolmen, sarcophaag, grafzuil, grafnaald, graftombe,

grafsteen, grafgesteente, grafzerk, , lijkgesteente, grafnis, grafplaat, grafbord,

gewijde grond, graftuin, begraafplaats,

campo-santo,

ossuarium, knekelhuis, beenderhuis, beenderurn, beenderengrot, beenderhoop,

ligplaats tussen vier planken, ligplaats voor eeuwig,

laatste ankerplaats, laatste tolplaats, den dieperik, poort tot het eeuwig e (niets/leven), pierenkuil, put voor de gecrepeerden, put/kuil der ruste, bij de mieren zijn, plaats van ontbinding, lijkenstek, lijkenplaats,, knekelmansplaats, doodskistenplaats, kadaver plaats/ruimte,

aan de schoot der aarde toevertrouwen, onder de grond stoppen, in de put steken,een lijk bijzetten, lijken verbranden/verassen,