What is "grafe"

Usage examples of "grafe".

When it is done no trumpets may be blown, no rocks rent, no graves opened.

The Chippewas, and several other important tribes, always kindled fires on the fresh graves of their dead, and kept them burning four successive nights, to light the wandering souls on their way.

The Greeks were wont to pour wine, oil, milk, and blood into canals made in the graves of their dead.

Augustine and Tertullian call them from the heathen, and Celebrated them over the graves of their martyrs and of their other deceased friends.

What should we think if we could foresee that, a thousand years hence, when the present doctrines and customs of France and America are forgotten, some antiquary, seeking the reason why the mourners in Pere la Chaise and Mount Auburn laid clusters of flowers on the graves of their lamented ones, should deliberately conclude that it was believed the souls remained in the bodies in the tomb and enjoyed the perfume of the flowers?

As well might it be argued that, because the ancient savage tribes on the coast of South America, who obtained their support by fishing, buried fish hooks and bait with their dead, they supposed the dead bodies occupied themselves in their graves by fishing!

But the most judicious, trustworthy critics hold an intermediate position, and affirm that the Hebrew Scriptures show a general belief in the separate existence of the spirit, not indeed as experiencing rewards and punishments, but as surviving in the common silence and gloom of the under world, a desolate empire of darkness yawning beneath all graves and peopled with dream like ghosts.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and bring you into the land of Israel.

The old Hebrew graves were crypts, wide, deep holes, like the habitations of the troglodytes.

Most certainly it was not the restoration of their decomposed bodies from their graves, although that incredible surmise has been generally entertained.

The Pharisees looked for a restoration of the righteous from their graves to a bodily life.

All mankind shall be judged in the spiritual state by the spirit and precepts of my religion as veritably as if in their graves the generations of the dead heard my voice and came forth, the good to blessedness, the evil to misery.

The symbol shockingly perverted from its original beautiful meaning by the mistaken belief that we sleep in our graves until a distant resurrection day is often applied to burial grounds.

Rise, then, from your moral graves, and already, by faith and imagination, sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

Standing by the graves of our loved and lost ones, our inmost souls yearn over the very dust in which their hallowed forms repose.