Re:In Event of Moon Disaster (1969)
by tptacek on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:21PM
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I think it's a misstatement. The body is normally committed to the deep; the soul is commended to God. But "commend" here means "entrust to", so there's a reasonable reading either way.
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Safire probably just misspoke but it looks like the OG 1549 Book of Common Prayer somehow manages the full cartesian product - there's a commend of body and soul, the commend-and-commit phraseology often used today and a commit of soul.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1549/Burial_1549.ht...