[PRCo] Re: Merry Christmas

[Richard Allman]

just to hotdog it a bit, Dennis, isn't also a part of Handel's "Messiah"? 
Merry Christmas! RICH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis F. Cramer" <dfc1 at windstream.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:32 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Merry Christmas


> The name of the group is based upon the 1545 translation of the Bible by
> Martin Luther.  St. Paul's description of the last days of mankind in 1
> Corinthians 15:52 uses the phrase; die Posaune schallen (the Trombone 
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> sound).   To the German mind, the sound of the trombone was like the voice
> of God.
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> 1 Corinthians 15:52
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> Martin Luther 1545
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> 51 Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis: Wir werden nicht alle entschlafen,
> wir werden aber alle verwandelt werden; 52 und dasselbe plötzlich, in 
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> Augenblick, zur Zeit der letzten Posaune. Denn es wird die Posaune 
> schallen,
> und die Toten werden auferstehen unverweslich, und wir werden verwandelt
> werden.
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> King James 1611
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> 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all 
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> changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet:
> for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, 
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> we shall be changed.
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> Neither instrument is from biblical times.  The shofar (rams horn) is the
> probable instrument.
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> Dennis F. Cramer
>      Trombone
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