Rest in peace united in Christ." The abbreviation R.I.P., meaning "Requiescat in pace" "Rest in peace", continues to be engraved on the gravestones of Christians, especially in the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations. In the Tridentine Requiem Mass of the Catholic Church the phrase appears several times. To satisfy a vogue for rhyming couplets on tombstones, the phrase has been parsed ungrammatically as: This verse has been found inscribed in Hebrew on gravestones dating from the 1st century BC, in the graveyard of Bet Shearim. It speaks of the righteous person who died because he could not stand the evil surrounding him. A
Common English Bible and Emerson B. Powery. Protestant, Catholic, Seventh-day Adventist and Reform Judaism were represented among the translators and reviewers . The CEB attempts to substitute more natural wording for traditional biblical terminology. For instance, where most Bibles use the term "son of man" in the Old Testament (e.g. Ezekiel 2:1) the CEB translates it as "human." In the New Testament where Jesus uses the Greek version of this term of himself—probably with messianic overtones—the CEB renders it "the Human One." Another example of common English is substituting "harass" for "persecute": "If the world harassed me, it will harass you too," (John