Acts
2. Untoward Generation
Click to hear Al Maxey SHOUTING over the Direct commands, examples and necessary inferences that the MUSIC word is universally associated with Satan, warriors, prostitutes or Sodomites: John called the operatives of the end time harlot worship SORCERERS.
Notes added on the clangs and gongs in Corinth
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The Cainites boasted of the descent from Cain the fratricide, and made him their leader. They regarded the God of the Jews and Creator of the world as a positively evil being, whom to resist is virtue. Hence they turned the history of salvation upside down, and honored all the infamous characters of the Old and New Testaments from Cain to Judas as spiritual men and martyrs to truth. Judas Iscariot alone among the apostles had the secret of true knowledge, and betrayed the psychic Messiah with good intent to destroy the empire of the evil God of the Jews. Origen speaks of a branch of the Ophites, who were as great enemies of Jesus as the heathen Celsus, and who admitted none into their society who had not first cursed his name. But the majority seem to have acknowledged the goodness of Jesus and the benefit of his crucifixion brought about by the far-sighted wisdom of Judas. A book entitled "the Gospel of Judas" was circulated among them.
-CAINITES: According to Irenæus (Hær., i. 31), a sect of the Ophites who worshiped Cain as an instrument of the Gnostic Sophia [and ZOE], treated with hostility by the demiurge. They saw in Judas the one who best of all knew the truth, celebrated his treason as a mystery, and had a "Gospel of Judas." The notices of Pseudo-Tertullian (Hær., vii.), Philastrius (Hær., ii.), and Epiphanius (Hær., xxxviii.) accord with these statements.
Cain was generated of higher power than Abel, and Judas was the benefactor of the human race, either because by his treason he frustrated Christ's intention to destroy truth (Philastrius), or because he compelled the archons to kill Christ, and so assisted in obtaining the salvation of the cross (Epiphanius). When Tertullian (Præscriptio hæreticorum, xxxiii.; cf. De baptismo, i.) mentions "Gaiana heresis" he probably refers to the Cainites. Cf. also Clement, Strom., vi. 108; Theodoret, Hær., i. 15; Hippolytus, Phil., viii. 20. For Cainites, descendants of Cain, See Cain, Kenites.
Cain was a principle seed of Satan intending to destroy Christ by destroying the holy line of Abel
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous. 1Jn.3:12
H7014 qayin kah'-yin The same as H7013 (with a play upon the affinity to H7069 ); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Palestine, and of an Oriental tribe:--Cain, Kenite (-s).
H7013 qayin kah'-yin From H6969 in the original sense of fixity; a lance (as striking fast): spear.
H6969 qun koon A primitive root; to strike a musical note, that is, chant or wail (at a funeral): lament, mourning woman.
You must remember that Jesus CAST OUT these musical minstrels LIKE DUNG.
Cain is said to have HANDLED musical instruments:
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Scripture says that he HANDLES musical instruments WITHOUT AUTHORITY because he used them to control the lives and property of those whom he could seduce.
H8610 taphas taw-fas' A primitive root; to manipulate, that is, seize; chiefly to capture, wield; specifically to overlay; figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
All musical words point to Satan or some evil influence. Not that music was evil but it had the power to drive warriors into battle or cause mothers to give up children to be burned in Jerusalem while they played instruments and beat on drums.
H8608 taphaph taw-faf' A primitive root; to drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine: taber, play with timbrels.
H8611 tôpheth to'-feth From the base of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret.
HELL as Topeth is prepared SPECIFICIALLY for Satan and his/her seduced people who let her USE music to silence the left, rational or spiritual brain given by God.
H8612 tôpheth to'-feth The same as H8611 ; Topheth, a place near Jerusalem:--Tophet, Topheth.
Gen 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
In Matthew 13 Jesus spoke only in parables to the Kenite clergy in Jerusalem because they had lost the right to hear the gospel and be saved. Thus, we CAN say that certain people exist on the earth predestinated to burn in hell. Jesus called them sons of the Devil because they "speak on their own" and John called them sons of VIPERS whom he refused to baptize. Therefore, MUSIC and rejecting baptism may be a MARK.
There WAS a RACE or GENERATION of People from the Fallen Angels who intermarried with human women. That created a superhuman race of people who literally devoured people and used all of the performing arts to steal from and dominate people. This is well documented as the Lamech Family and their story is repeated in Babylonian tablets. The word DEMAGOGUE in the Greek language notes that he RULES by appeasing people with performing arts.
The Book of Enoch liberally quoted in the New Testament identifies the fallen angels and those they seduced from the Living Word by the use of Mixed sex choirs, instrumental music, seductive clothing and other elements of seduction.
The Books of Adam and Eve and dozens of early documents define the Lamech family in more detail. Book One...Book Two
I have detailed the GENUN character who is a composite of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah. The word HANDLED instruments means WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
We can IDENTIFY those predestinated to return to the nether world or HELL and the MARKS are universally that of a perverted race who always STAFFED pagan religions using music to seduce people AWAY from the Word of God. John shows their destiny in Revelation 18
You will notice that Jesus never let the multitude of that generation hear except in parables. He said that truth had been HIDDEN in parables from the foundation of the world. Isaiah 48 shows that it was to HIDE the truth from a certain group of people.
Most of the people at
Pentecost would have been true Israelites most of whom had long
been
dispersed from Jerusalem.
Salvation
for the duration of our life is NOT salvation into heaven: it is
salvation FROM the masses of humanity who are hostile to the very idea
of a supreme CREATOR of the sun and therefore they worship the SUN.
Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
While the MANY are called, FEW are chosen. That is because A GENERATION or RACE of people could not hear without PERVERTING every word.
Jesus refused to preach to them lest they might repent.
Therefore, the ALL excludes the GENERATION or RACE of people who are Kenites or derived from Cain who was OF that wicked one. Both Jesus and John calls the sons of the Devil proven when "the speak on their own" or sons of vipers. The serpent in the garden was not a literal snake but a Musical Enchanter identified as Lucifer "the singing and harp playing prostitute" indwelling the king of Tyre.
Jesus died to remove the LADED BURDEN of the clergy which was "spiritual anxiety through religious rituals." The REST literally points almost exclusively to STOP the singing, stop the instruments, just STOP all of the personal pleasuring.
That gives us REST from the Crooked and Perverted TRIBE OF PEOPLE who flock to the MULTITUDES.
Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
The untoward or perverted or crooked generation were MARKED when....
G4646 skolios skol-ee-os' From the base of G4628 ; warped, that is, winding; figuratively perverse:crooked, froward, untoward.
-Skolios 1 curved, winding, twisted, tangled, Lat. obliquus, Hdt., Eur., etc.:-- bent sideways, douleiê kephalê skoliê (Hor. stat capite obstipo) Theogn.: metaph. crooked, i. e. unjust, unrighteous , Il., Hes., etc.; skolia prattein, eipein Plat.:--so adv. skoliôs, Hes.
Prattein, -Prassô II. experience certain fortunes, achieved bondage, i.e. brought it on himself, grant power of song, get something, plot, 3. of sexual intercourse, b. esp. of secret practices and intrigues
-Charis for his pleasure, for his sake, glôssês charin for one's tongue's pleasure, hy pleasure or sake, s for the sake of my flesh, for the pleasure of devouring it, prassein, 4. love-charm, philtre, charizesthai (1.2), indulge, humour, orgêi,Skoliotês 2. of men, crookedness, dishonesty, LXX Ez.16
Charizomai charizô , fut. chariô 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
A fuller definition;
-Skolios MEANING: riddling, obscure, rhêmatia Luc. Bis Acc.16; to s. têseisodou (into true science)
-Skolios MEANING: ithunei
makes the crooked one straight, Hes.Op.7; s. kai phoberos
-Skolios MEANING: riddling, obscure, rhêmatia Luc. Bis Acc.16; to s. têseisodou (into true science)
-SkoliosMEANING: ithunei skolion makes the crooked one straight, Hes.Op.7; s. kai phoberos
Hes.Op.7; Hesoid Works and Days: (ll. 1-10) Muses of Pieria who give glory through song, come hither, tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise. Throug him mortal men are famed or un-famed, sung or unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. For easily he makes strong, and easily he brings the strong man low; easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud, -- Zeus who thunders aloft and has his dwelling most high.Attend thou with eye and ear, and make judgements straight with righteousness. And I, Perses, would tell of true things.
(ll. 11-24) So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature.
For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods,
men pay harsh Strife her honour due. But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night, and the son of Cronos who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with is neighbour as he hurries after wealth.This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev 18:22
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev 18:22
Identifying Jerusalem a Jebusite High Place where David was forced to go. Jerusalem is "a city set on seven hills a is called Sodom or Egyp or HAGAR which poins to that tribe of interest
Ezekiel 16: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. [4] As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. [5] No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
-Skolion 1 [neut. of skolios] [sub. melos] a song which went round at banquets, sung to the lyre by the guests, Ar.; so called from its zigzag course-- each guest who sung holding a myrtle-branch murrinê, which he passed across the table to any one he chose. or it was said that the songs were easy, but appeared difficult to drunken revellers, Procl. in Phot.Bibl.p.321 B.; or were called difficult kat' antiphrasin, Procl. l.c., Suid.）
Psallo never means melody in a tuneful sense. The word Melos 2. [select] music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14; opp. rhuthmos, metron, Pl.Grg. 502c; opp. rhuthmos, rhēma, Id.Lg.656c; Krētikon, Karikon, Iōnikon m., Cratin.222, Pl.Com.69.12,14: metaph., en melei properly, correctly, “en m. phtheggesthai” Pl.Sph.227d; para melos incorrectly, inopportunely,
3. melody of an instrument, “phormigx d' au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos” Thgn.761; “aulōn pamphōnon m.” Pi.P.12.19; “pēktidōn melē” S.Fr.241: gen
Even so, notice that the word for MELODY--as in English--is not related to thythm or meter: it is just the opposite. Melody is a series of single tones. There is no word for this melody in the Bible.
The Branch of the terrible ones in Isaiah 24-25 is corrected to the :
Zamiyr (h2158) zaw-meer'; or zamir zaw-meer'; and (fem.) zÿmirah zem-ee-raw'; from 2167; a song to be accompanied with instrumental music: - psalm (-ist), singing, song
Is. 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants,
and shalt set it with strange slips:Strange Slips: h2168 putting a branch to the nose while worshiping the rising sun.
Under the Achaemenids, music served an important function in worship as well as in courtly entertainment. The bas-reliefs clearly depict groups of singers, players of trigonal harps (chang) accompanied by large tambourines, as well as long necked lutes and double-flutes
The location of this picture (Tyre, Lebanon) places it outside a Zoroastrian setting. However that is simply the place it was found, not necessarily its point of origin. The date Dumbrill cites, 1500-1000 BC, places it at the very beginnings of the religion and well within the context of the traditions that preceded it. The man looks uncannily like a Zoroastrian priest holding baresman (bundle of twigs held by an officiating priest) and tending a fire. The musically noteworthy element in this image is the depiction of a woman possibly playing a drum next to the fire. Also, the presence of the seven celestial bodies is directly Zoroastrian in nature. The House of Song, Raiomond Mirza.Now, HERE is the audition for the Musical Worship Team.
(a) from skolios crooked, because of the crooked order of the singers, the bad singers being passed over, or the couches being crookedly arranged, Dicaearch.Hist.43, Aristox.Fr.Hist.59, Plu.2.615c, Sch. Pl.l.c. (b) later, the omission of the bad singers being ascribed to the difficulty or non-social character of the songs skolion was derived from duskolon or duskolia, Hsch., Sch.Ar.V. 1217; or it was said that the songs were easy, but appeared difficult to drunken revellers, Ar.Ach.532 Ra.1302, V.1222, Pl.Grg.451e
-Dus-kolos
I. of persons, prop. hard to satisfy with food (cf. Ath.6.262a): but, generally, hard to please, discontented, fretful, peevish II. of things, troublesome, harassing, dus-kolia
-Aristophanes, Wasps [105] glued fast to the column like an oyster. He is a merciless judge, never failing to draw the convicting line and return home with his nails full of wax like a bumble-bee. Fearing he might run short of pebbles [110] he keeps enough at home to cover a sea-beach, so that he may have the means of recording his sentence. Such is his madness, and all advice is useless; he only judges the more each day. So we keep him under lock and key, to prevent his going out; for his son is broken-hearted over this mania. [115] At first he tried him with gentleness, wanted to persuade him to wear the cloak no longer, to go out no more; unable to convince him, he had him bathed and purified according to the ritual without any greater success, and then handed him over to the Corybantes; but the old man escaped them, and carrying off the kettledrum, [120] rushed right into the midst of the Heliasts. As Cybele could do nothing with her rites, his son took him to Aegina and forcibly made him lie one night in the temple of Asclepius, the God of Healing,
Ar.Ach.532 Ar.Ach.532 Aristophanes, Acharnians Thus far the evil was not serious and we were the only sufferers. But now some young drunkards go to Megara and carry off the courtesan Simaetha; the Megarians, hurt to the quick, run off in turn with two harlots of the house of Aspasia; and so for three gay women Greece is set ablaze. Then Pericles, aflame with ire on his Olympian height, let loose the lightning, caused the thunder to roll, upset Greece and passed an edict, which ran like the song, That the Megarians be banished both from our land and from our markets and from the sea and from the continent. 3 Meanwhile the Megarians, who were beginning to die of hunger, begged the Lacedaemonians to bring about the abolition of the decree, of which those harlots were the cause; several times we refused their demand; and from that time there was horrible clatter of arms everywhere.
Note: 3 A song by Timocreon the Rhodian, the words of which were practically identical with Pericles' decree.Plutarch in Symposium Book 1 tells us that the people in Jerusalem were not Israelites and their hoped-for "Messiah" was Bacchus or Dionysis once worshipped as the abomination of Desolation in the temple and the clergy disciples who piped hoping that Jesus would sing and dance the perverted Dionysus "bowing to Baal."
Antisthenes, Hermogenes, and the like,--we will permit them to philosohize, and to mix Bacchus with the Muses as well as with the Nymphs; for the latter make him wholesome and gentle to the body, and the other pleasant and agreeable to the soul. And if there are some few illiterate persons present, they, as consonants with vowels, in the midst of the other learned, will participate not altogether inarticulately and insignificantly.
But if the greater part consists of such who can better endure the noise of any bird, fiddle-string, or piece of wood than the voice of a philosopher,Just so, when philosophers midst their cups dive into minute and logical disputes, they are very troublesome to those that cannot follow them through the same depths; and those that bring in idle songs, trifling disquisitions, common talk, and mechanical discourse destroy the very end of conversation and merry entertainments, and abuse Bacchus.
Therefore, as when Phrynichus and Aeschylus brought tragedy to discourse of fictions and misfortunes, it was asked, What is this to Bacchus?--so methinks, when I hear some pedantically drawing a syllogism into table-talk, I have reason to cry out, Sir, what is this to Bacchus?
Perchance one, the great bowl standing in the midst, and the chaplets given round, which the god in token of the liberty he bestows sets on every head, sings one of those songs called [Skolios] (CROOKED OR OBSCURE); this is not fit nor agreeable to a feast.
Though some say these songs were not dark and intricate composures; but that the guests sang the first song all together, praising Bacchus and describing the power of the god; and the second each man sang singly in his turn, a myrtle bough being delivered to every one in order, which they call an because he that received it was obliged to sing;
and after this a harp being carried round the company, the skilful took it, and fitted the music to the song; this when the unskilful could not perform, the song was called [Greek omitted] because hard to them, and one in which they could not bear a part.
Others say this myrtle bough was not delivered in order, but from bed to bed; and when the uppermost of the first table had sung, he sent it to the uppermost of the second, and he to the uppermost of the third; and so the second in like manner to the second; and from these many windings and this circuit it was called CROOKED.Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: from Lesbos to Alexandria by Gregory Nag
A striking example is the reference in Aristophanes F 235 Kassel/Austin to the singing of a sympotic song of Alcaeus, called a skolion : 'sing me some skolion, taking it from Alcaeus or Anacreon'. 48 This correlation of Alcaeus with Anacreon as masters of sympotic songmaking is particularly valuable in light of the explicit identification of Anacreon with the institution of the symposium: in Herodotus 3.121, this poet is pictured as actually participating in a symposium attended by his patron, the tyrant Polycrates, at Samos ("and he found Polycrates reclining in the men's quarters, in the company of Anacreon of Teos"). 49
48. The word skolion , as used in the time of Aristophanes, is a distinctly sympotic term. It was an appropriate general designation for the performance, self-accompanied on the lyre, of compositions by the great lyric masters; see A. E. Harvey, 1955. "The Classification of Greek Lyric Poetry," Classical Quarterly 5 (1955): 162-63, following R. Reitzenstein, Epigramm und Skolion: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der alexandrinischen Dichtung (Giessen, 1893); see also Nagy, Pindar's Homer, pp. 106-7. To engage in these performances was an old-fashioned convention at symposia, as we can see from such references as Aristophanes Clouds 1355-1356, the scholia to Aristophanes Wasps 1222, and Eupolis F 139 Kock (by way of Athenaeus 638e). According to "Plutarch" On Music 1140f, Pindar attributed the "invention" of the skolion to Terpander, who is also the traditional "inventor" of the system of melodies used in kitharôidia ( On Music 1132d). I should add that Aristotle refers to Alcaeus F 348, which he also cites, as a skolion ; see Aristotle, Politics 1285a35 and following).Psalm 41 predicted that Judas would try to TRIUMPH OVER Jesus: the Judas Bag was for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments. It was always attached to the flute case of the perverted singers.49. See commentary by E. Urios-Aparisi, "Anacreon: Love and Poetry (on 358 PMG, 13 Gentili)," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 44 (1993): 54 on the explicitly sympotic features of the description given by Herodotus.
Jesus accused THAT generation of being like the children of the Agora or marketplace who were the abused boy leaders of the Dionysus Chorus. They piped hoping to find someone to sing and dance. He also CAST OUT the musical minstrels like dung.
This should come as no surprise to Bible students who grasp that it was this say form of NEW WINE musical idolatry at Mount Sinai which invited God to TURN THEMOVER TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST (Stephen, Acts 7 etc.)
Here Symmachus, greatly wondering at what was spoken, says: What, Lamprias, will you permit our tutelar god, called Evius, the inciter of women, famous for the honors he has conferred upon him by madmen, to be inscribed and enrolled in the mysteries of the Jews?
Or is there any solid reason that can be given to prove Adonis to be the same with Bacchus? Here Moeragenes interposing, said: Do not be so fierce upon him, for I who am an Athenian answer you, and tell you, in short, that these two are the very same.
And no man is able or fit to bring the chief confirmation of this truth, but those amongst us who are initiated and skilled in the triennial [Greek omitted] or chief mysteries of the god.
But what no religion forbids to speak of among friends, especially over wine, the gift of Bacchus, I am ready at the command of these gentlemen to disclose.
When all the company requested and earnestly begged it of him; first of all (says he), the time and manner of the greatest and most holy solemnity of the Jews is exactly agreeable to the holy rites of Bacchus; for that which they call the Fast they celebrate in the midst of the vintage, furnishing their tables with all sorts of fruits while they sit under tabernacles made of vines and ivy; and the day which immediately goes before this they call the day of Tabernacles.
Within a few days after they celebrate another feast, not darkly but openly, dedicated to Bacchus, for they have a feast amongst them called Kradephoria, from carrying palm-trees, and Thyrsophoria, when they enter into the temple carrying thyrsi.
What they do within I know not; but it is very probable that they perform the rites of Bacchus. First they have little trumpets, such as the Grecians used to have at their Bacchanalia to call upon their gods withal.
Others go before them playing upon harps, which they call Levites, whether so named from Lusius or Evius,--either word agrees with Bacchus. [Bacchae: Dionysus = Bacchus = Evius = Bromius (all different names for the same god]
They called Mithridates a god, they called him their father and the preserver of Asia, they called him Evius, Nysius, Bacchus, Liber.
Philo to Gaius 40
And I suppose that their Sabbaths have some relation to Bacchus; for even now many call the Bacchi by the name of Sabbi, and they make use of that word at the celebration of Bacchus's orgies.
The Jews themselves witness no less; for when they keep the Sabbath, they invite one another to drink till they are drunk; or if they chance to be hindered by some more weighty business, it is the fashion at least to taste the wine.Some perhaps may surmise that these are mere conjectures. But there are other arguments which will clearly evince the truth of what I assert. The first may be drawn from their High-priest, who on holidays enters their temple with his mitre on, arrayed in a skin of a hind embroidered with gold, wearing buskins, and a coat hanging down to his ankles;
besides, he has a great many little bells depending from his garment which make a noise as he walks.
So in the nocturnal ceremonies of Bacchus (as the fashion is amongst us), they make use of music, and call the god's nurses
And this may be discovered out of Demosthenes and Menander. Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement which the priests of Bacchus display.
Antisthenes, Hermogenes, and the like,--we will permit them to philosohize, and to mix Bacchus with the Muses as well as with the Nymphs; for the latter make him wholesome and gentle to the body, and the other pleasant and agreeable to the soul. And if there are some few illiterate persons present, they, as consonants with vowels, in the midst of the other learned, will participate not altogether inarticulately and insignificantly.
But if the greater part consists of such who can better endure the noise of any bird, fiddle-string, or piece of wood than the voice of a philosopher,Just so, when philosophers midst their cups dive into minute and logical disputes, they are very troublesome to those that cannot follow them through the same depths; and those that bring in idle songs, trifling disquisitions, common talk, and mechanical discourse destroy the very end of conversation and merry entertainments, and abuse Bacchus.
Therefore, as when Phrynichus and Aeschylus brought tragedy to discourse of fictions and misfortunes, it was asked, What is this to Bacchus?--so methinks, when I hear some pedantically drawing a syllogism into table-talk, I have reason to cry out, Sir, what is this to Bacchus?
Perchance one, the great bowl standing in the midst, and the chaplets given round, which the god in token of the liberty he bestows sets on every head, sings one of those songs called [Skolios] (CROOKED OR OBSCURE); this is not fit nor agreeable to a feast.-Ra.1302 Aristophanes, Frogs
Though some say these songs were not dark and intricate composures; but that the guests sang the first song all together, praising Bacchus and describing the power of the god; and the second each man sang singly in his turn, a myrtle bough being delivered to every one in order, which they call an because he that received it was obliged to sing;
and after this a harp being carried round the company, the skilful took it, and fitted the music to the song; this when the unskilful could not perform, the song was called [Greek omitted] because hard to them, and one in which they could not bear a part.
Others say this myrtle bough was not delivered in order, but from bed to bed; and when the uppermost of the first table had sung, he sent it to the uppermost of the second, and he to the uppermost of the third; and so the second in like manner to the second; and from these many windings and this circuit it was called CROOKED.Dionysus
What is this phlattothrat? Is it from Marathon, or
where did you assemble these songs of a rope-twister?Aeschylus
Well, to a fine place from a fine place did I
bring them, lest I be seen garnering from the same meadow as Phrynichos.
But this guy gets them from everywhere, from little whores,
Meletus' drinking songs, Carian flute solos,
Dirges, dances. This will all be made clear immediately.
Someone bring in a lyre. And yet, what need
of a lyre for this guy? Where's the girl who clacks the castanets?
Hither, Muse of Euripides, [singing prostittes, Revelation 18:22}
for whom these songs are appropriate to sing.Dionysus
This Muse never did the Lesbian thing, oh no..
-V.1222 Aristophanes, Wasps
Bdelycleon [similar to "Abomination"] which sex and music in the Holy Places
Spread your knees on the tapestries and give your body the most easy curves, like those taught in the gymnasium. Then praise some bronze vase, [1215] survey the ceiling, admire the awning stretched over the court. Water is poured over our hands; the tables are spread; we sup and, after ablution, we now offer libations to the gods.
Epain-eô , Aeol. epainêmi Simon.5.19; Lacon. epainiô Ar.Lys. 198: impf. epêineon Il 3.461 (tm.): fut
IV. of Rhapsodists, recite, declaim publicly, Pl.Ion536d, 541e.
Philocleon
But, by Zeus! this supper is but a dream, it appears!
Bdelycleon
The flute-player has finished the prelude. [1220] The guests are Theorus, Aeschines, Phanus, Cleon, Acestor; and beside this last, I don't know who else. You are with them and will show how to take up the songs that are started.
Philocleon
Really? None of the Diacrians will show them.
That's why you need a professional singer to sing teeny silly erotic praise ditties. The intention is to PASS OVER the congregation assumed to be POOR SINGERS. Too bad that SINGING is identified with IDOLATRY by Moses and has no role in the SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE.
-Aristophanes, Wasps Bdelycleon
The flute-player has finished the prelude. [1220] The guests are Theorus, Aeschines, Phanus, Cleon, Acestor; and beside this last, I don't know who else. You are with them and will show how to take up the songs that are started.
Of course, this was a time CONSUMED by just singing complicated songs. Does THAT ring a bell.
Next we will PROVE that this was the RACE of evil people who descended from CAIN and were OF that Wicked one.
Paul said that Eve was wholly seduced in the sense of a bride before the marriage is consummated. John said that Cain was OF that wicked one and
1Jn.3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous.
1Jn.5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Jesus admitted that the sectarians who ran the Jewish system were descended from Abraham but denied that they were of Isaac and true Israelites. The rulers in religious Judaism bought their offices as highest bidders just as non-Israelites had served in the Temple too often. The ENEMY has always been the Cainites--who survived the flood--or Kenites or Canaanites who were traffickers to be ousted from the church. This was such a profound takeover that Jesus spoke to the masses only in parables to prevent them from understanding enough of the mysteries to try to defeat the seekers.
Jesus said that the leaders were SONS OF THE DEVIL because they SPOKE ON THEIR OWN. Of John,
Matt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation [gennema=offspring] of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
While some of the rulers believed and obeyed most of them REJECTED God's PRE-counsel by rejecting baptism. The word APISTOS or "believeth not" identifies those in revolt against God and therefore Traitors.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38
For the promise is unto you (Jews), and to your children (Jews), and to all that are afar off (Gentiles), even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 2:39
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Acts 2:40
The untoward includes the Jews but all who are "warped, perverse, crooked. Generaton. It does not speak of the Jews only but THAT PARTICULAR age [genea age, nation] which so dominated Jerusalem that a million received the SPIRIT OF BURNING and JUDGMENT while history says that not one baptized believer perished.
Skolios (g4646) skol-ee-os'; from the base of 4628; warped, i.e. winding; fig. perverse: - crooked, froward, untoward.
THESE are present in all nations and NOT just those in Jerusalem:
Ph.2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
1Pe.2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
One of the MARKS of the evil NATIONAL JEWS but not limited was:
Mt.12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Salvation is FROM the evil, superstitious forces which plagued BOTH Jew and Gentile. Salvation is also TOWARD discipleship.
The word "generation" is a unique word. It is not measured in the terms of years.
=Genea A. geneêphi Il.14.112 : ( [genesthai] ): of the persons in a family,
1. race, family, Priamou, of this race and blood, hence, tribe, nation,
-Latin: Natio II. A breed, stock, kind, species, race, genus,
More rarely does it speak of a AGE or time period.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: Col 1:13
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Col 1:14
G4655 skotos skot'-os From the base of G4639 ; shadiness, that is, obscurity (literally or figuratively):darkness.G4639 skia skee'-ah Apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively [darkness of error or an adumbrati ;shadow.
Matt 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Adulterous
G3428 moichalis moy-khal-is' A prolonged form of the feminine of G3432 ; an adulteress (literally or figuratively): adulteress (-ous, -y).
G3432 moichos moy-khos' Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour; figuratively apostate: adulterer.
The MUSES were the:
Tettix , cicala, Cicada plebeia or allied species, a winged insect fond of basking on trees, when the male makes a chirping or clicking noise by means of certain drums or 'tymbals' underneath the wings, This noise is freq. used as a simile for sweet sounds, Plato calls them hoi Mousôn prophêtai, but they also became a prov. for garrulity, lalein tettix Aristopho10.7 : t. polloi ginomenoi nosôdes to etos sēmainousi Thphr.Sign.54 . They were thought to sing continually without food or drink, Ar.Nu. 1360, Pl.Phdr.259c; or on a diet of air and dew,
And thiis is the SIGN they seek after rather than seeking God in His Word.
G4592 semeion say-mi'-on Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4591 ; an indication, especially ceremonially or supernaturally: miracle, sign, token, wonder.
G4591 sïmaino say-mah'ee-no Fromsema (a mark; of uncertain derivation); to indicate:signify.
Another PROOF CONTEXT
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Luke 7:29
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. Luke 7:30
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All the people look towards him while he settles causes with true judgements: and he, speaking surely,
-Agor-euô the ASSEMBLY In Att., of the crier's proclamation in the Ecclesia, tis agoreuein bouletai; who wishes to address the house
Misguided - blaptô , fut. II. of the mind, distract, pervert, mislead, of the gods, ton de tis athanatôn blapse phrenas Od.14.178 persuading them with gentle words. -Malakos , d. = pathêtikos e. of
music, soft, effeminate, m. harmoniai Pl.R.398e
, 411a, cf.
Arist.Pol.1290a28; tuned to a low pitch, opp. suntonos, chrôma m.
Cleonid.Harm.7 , etc. e.
of music, soft, effeminate, “m. harmoniai” Pl.R.398e, 411a, cf. Arist.Pol.1290a28; tuned to a low pitch, opp. “suntonos, khrōma m.” Cleonid.Harm.7, etc.
Gentle words -Paraphêmi , poet. paraiphêmi and parphêmi , A. speak gently to, advise, mêtri d' egô paraphêmi Il.1.577 :--Med., persuade, appease, mnêstêras malakois epeessi parphasthai Od.16.287 , 19.6 ; tin' allon parphamenos epeessin apotrepseis polemoio Il.12.249 , cf. Od.2.189 ; malakoisi paraiphamenoi epeessin Hes.Th.90 , cf. Parm.1.15. 2. freq. with collat. notion of deceit, speak deceitfully or insincerely, parphamen horkon, logon, Pi. O.7.66, P.9.43 :--Med., polla min parphamena beguiling him, Id.N.5.32. |
We have shown that the twisted or perverted generation identifies singers and musicians. Jesus will not speak to them.
Matt. 11:16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Matt. 11:17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. [SINGING ON DEMAND]
Latin: [17] dicunt cecinimus vobis et non saltastis lamentavimus et non planxistis
-CANO , to produce melodious sounds, whether of men or animals, of the crowing of a cock, (the crowing of a hen being considered as an auspicium malum), A. [select] Of men: “si absurde canat,” Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 9: “celebrare dapes canendo,” Ov. M. 5, 113: “si velim canere vel voce vel fidibus,” Cic. Div. 2, 59, 122; Quint. 5, 11, 124; 1, 8, 2; Gell. 19, 9, 3: “quemadmodum tibicen sine tibiis canere non possit,” Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 338; cf.: “tibia canentum,” Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384; Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; Quint. 1, 10, 14: “curvo calamo,”
[IN ROMANS 14] In the lang. of the Pythagoreans, of the heavenly bodies (considered as living beings), the music of the spheres,C. Since the responses of oracles were given in verse, to prophesy, foretell, predict. In poetry: Sibylla,
Canto III. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm,
-Arnobius speaking of the Parasites: Was it for this He sent souls, that in men they should become IMPURE,
in women harlots, players on the triangle and psaltery ; that they should prostitute their bodies for hire, should abandon themselves to the lust of all ready in the brothels, to be met with in the stews, ready to submit to anything, prepared to do violence to their mouth even?
-Psaltes , ae, m., = psaltês, a player on the cithara, a musician, minstrel, Quint. 1, 10, 18; Mart. Cap. 9, § 924; Sid. Ep. 8, 9; Inscr. Grut. 331, 2; Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 1.
-Thrêneô sing a dirge, wail, Mousai
Thriambeuo (g2358) three-am-byoo'-o; from a prol. comp. of the base of 2360 and a der. of 680 (mean. a noisy iambus, sung in honor of Bacchus); to make an acclamatory procession, i.e. (fig.) to conquer or (by Hebr.) to give victory: - (cause) to triumph (over).
Jesus then speaks of Tyre which was a Type of Lucifer--the singing and harp playing prostitute:
Matt. 11:22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Eze 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast BEEN in EDEN the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy TABRETS and of thy PIPES was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Both pipes and tabrets were instruments of divining: most people believed that the "gods" or demons lived inside musical instruments. When played, the sorcerers or witches such as the Witch of Endor sold the idea that the sounds were God inside.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Isaiah 23:15
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Isaiah 23:16
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. Isaiah 23:1
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. Ezek 26:11
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. Ezek 26:12
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. Ezek 26:13
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God. Ezek 26:14
Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? Ezek 26:15
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; Ezek 26:19
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; Ezek 26:20
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. Isaiah 14:9
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Isaiah 14:10
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. Isaiah 14:11
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Isaiah 14:12
Matt. 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Of Babylon as the Holy Whore identical to Revelation 18:
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their [religious] feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Is.5:12
They are such as are given to mirth. They have their feasts, and they are so merrily disposed that they cannot dine or sup without music, musical instruments of all sorts, like David (Amos 6:5), like Solomon (Eccl. 2:8); the harp and the viol, the tarbet and pipe, must accompany the wine, that every sense may be gratified to a nicety; they take the timbrel and harp, Job 21:12. - Matthew Henry.
The prophet proceeds to state still further the extent of their crimes. This verse contains an account of their dissipated habits, and their consequent forgetfulness of God. That they commonly had musical instruments in their feasts, is evident from many passages of the Old Testament; see Amos 6:5,6. Their feasts, also, were attended with songs; Isaiah 24:8,9.Ecc 2:8 KJV I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
H7705 שדה shiddâh shid-dah' From H7703 ; a wife (as mistress of the house):X all sorts, musical instrument.H7891 שיר ׁשור o shıyr shûr sheer, shoor The second form being the original form, used in (1 Sam. 18:6 ); a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing:behold [by mistake for H7789 ], sing (-er, -ing man, -ing woman)
They PREVENTED teaching of the WORD.
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the maggots cover thee. Is.14:11
HERE IS WHERE YOU ARE IN TIME AND PLACE
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. [seed pickers]
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, [singer] and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; Rev 18:22
Rev 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Matt. 11:24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Matt.
11:25 At that time Jesus
answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because thou hast
hid
these things from
the wise [sophists] and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes.
he PRUDENT is probably any preacher now heaping up a huge STAFF to destroy your rest and living. He / she / it pretends that they can explain to YOU what you cannot understand by reading the text. He / she / it also claims (to keep from working) that they can sing, play instruments, act or seermonize and enhance or AID or make your worship more PROGRESSIVE.
God loves to make fools of fools: the prudent which Amos said should KEEP SILENT are.
Sunetos , ē, on, (suniēmi) A. intelligent, sagacious, wise, Democr.98, Pi.P.5.107, Hdt.1.185 (Comp.), etc.; “phōnaenta sunetoisin” Pi.O.2.85; of Zeus and Apollo, “xunetoi kai ta brotōn eidotes” S.OT498 (lyr.); “x. phrenes” Ar.Ra.876 (lyr.); of animals, Arist.HA589a1 (Comp.); s. hēlikiē the age of wisdom, AP5.111 (Phld.), etc.; hē sunetē alone, ib. 11.25 (Apollonid.); also to s., = sunesis, E.Or.1180, Th.2.15; to pros hapan x. Id.3.82: c. gen. rei, intelligent in a thing, “x. polemou” E.Or. 1406 (anap.)II. Pass., intelligible, “eumares suneton poēsai panti tout'” Sapph.Supp.5.5; “ou x. thnētois peirata” Thgn.1078; “phroneonti suneta garuō” B.3.85; suneta audan, legein, Hdt.2.57, E.Ph.498, etc.; esp. in oxymora, “anaboēsetai ou suneta sunetōs” Id.IA466; “dusxunetou xuneton melos” Id.Ph.1506 (lyr.): act. and pass. senses conjoined, “euxuneton xunetois boan” Id.IT1092 (lyr.); phōnē s. significant, Arist.Po.1456b23.
III. Adv. -tōs intelligently, E.IA466, Ar.V.633 (lyr.).
2. intelligibly, “dialegesthai” Arist.Pr.902a17; phthegxamenou . . ouden s. Plu.Sull.27; suneta homilein to discourse intelligibly, Babr.Prooem.11.
The Phrase: “dusxunetou xuneton melos”Melos , eos, to/, 2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14;
Dus-xunetos , on, A. hard to understand, “dusxuneton xunetos melos egnō” E.Ph.1506
(lyr.); “diagrammata” X.Mem.4.7.3;
Eur. Phoen. 1506
[1495] Your strife—not strife, but murder on murder— has brought the house of Oedipus to ruin with dire and grim bloodshed. What harmonious or tuneful wailing can I summon, [1500] for my tears, my tears, oh, my home! oh, my home! as I bear these three kindred bodies, my mother and her sons, a welcome sight to the Fury? She destroyed the house of Oedipus, root and branch, [1505] when his shrewdness solved the Sphinx's unsolvable song and killed that savage singer. Alas for you, father! What other Hellene or barbarian,Diagramma , atos, 2. in Music, scale, Phan.Hist.17; but aph' henos d. hupokrekein on one note, Plu.2.55d, cf. Dem.13. III. ordinance, regulation,
Opposite. rhuthmos, metron, Pl.Grg. 502c;
Opposite. rhuthmos, rhēma, Id.Lg.656c;
But: rhēmatos ekhomenon Melos still does not include either Rythm or Meter
Melos does not allow:
The word OPHIS or Heb Nachash or Musical Enchanter speaks of the sophists
Matt. 11:26 Even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matt. 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
JESUS NEVER SPEAKS UNTIL HE CASTS OUT THE MINSTRELS LIKE DUNG
Matt. 11:28 Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
This burden is treating people like pack animals:
Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as a vessel or animal), i.e. (fig.) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.
The rest Jesus came to give us is: This WORRIES Doulos!
Anapauo (g373) an-up-ow'-o; from 303 and 3973; (reflex.) to repose (lit. or fig. [be exempt], remain); by impl. to refresh: - take ease, refresh, (give, take) rest.
Ana-pausis , poet. amp-, eōs, h(,
A. repose, rest, Mimn.12.2, Pi.N.7.52, Hp.VM 11, X.Lac.12.6: esp. relaxation, recreation, Pl.Ti.59c, X.Cyr.7.5.47.2. c. gen. rei, rest from a thing, “kakōn” Th.4.20; “polemou” X. Hier.2.11; “kakōn” Epicur.Ep.3p.61U.; “leitourgias” PFlor.57.56.3. Rhet., cadence of a period, Hermog.Id.1.1, al.
leitourg-ia , h(, earlier Att. lēt- IG22.1140.14 (386 B.C.):—at Athens, and elsewhere (e.g. Siphnos, Isoc.19.36; Mitylene, Antipho 5.77),A. public service performed by private citizens at their own expense, And.4.42, Lys.21.19, etc.; l. egkuklioi ordinary, i.e. annual, liturgies, D.20.21; leitourgiai metoikōn, opp. politikai, ib.18.II. any public service or work, PHib. 1.78.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; ho epi tōn leitourgiōn tetagmenos, in an army, the officer who superintended the workmen, carpenters, etc., Plb.3.93.4; “hoi epi tina l. apestalmenoi” Id.10.16.5: generally, military duty, UPZ15.25 (pl., ii B.C.).2. generally, any service or function, “hē prōtē phanera tois zōois l. dia tou stomatos ousa” Arist.PA650a9, cf. 674b9, 20, IA 711b30; “philikēn tautēn l.” Luc.Salt.6.3. service, ministration, help, 2 Ep.Cor.9.12, Ep.Phil.2.30.III. public service of the gods, “hai pros tous theous l.” Arist.Pol.1330a13; “hai tōn theōn therapeiai kai l.” D.S.1.21, cf. UPZ17.17 (ii B.C.), PTeb.302.30 (i A.D.), etc.; the service or ministry of priests, LXX Nu.8.25, Ev.Luc.1.23.-pauô, bring to an end, stop or silence by death, take one's rest, cease, have done, of one singing or speaking.
He spoke, and took the mess in both his hands and set it down there before his feet on his miserable wallet. Then he ate so long as the minstrel sang in the halls. But when he had dined and the divine minstrel was ceasing to sing, [360] the wooers broke into uproar
Pauo means: STOP the: -melōdous' , hê, singing, chanting,
II. chant, choral song, melôidias poiêtês, lullaby, generally, musis
Pauo means: Stop the pain of: -Thamurin aoidēs,
1. song, a singing, whether the art of song, Hom.; or the act of singing, song, Il.
; of one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d : generally, Med. denotes willing, Pass. forced, cessation.
4. less freq. c. inf., stop a person from . . , “em' epausas epi Trōessi makhesthai” Il.11.442 ; “rhapsōdous epause agōnizesthai” Hdt.5.67, cf. 7.54 :-
SIMPLE SIMON KNOWS THAT YOU CANNOT LEARN WHILE LADING PEOPLE WITH ANXIETY.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
His Burden is:
Phortion (g5413) for-tee'-on; dimin. of 5414; an invoice (as part of freight),
This is the universal message throughout the Bible: you MUST stop the singing which is enchantment or SORCERY used by false prophets who throughout the literature are prostitutes or sodomites: priests of KYBEL or CYBLE.
Jesus points directly to Dionysus who with Zeus had brought music and prostitution into the temple in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 13:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
THE CLANING CYMBALS directly outlaws the WOMEN'S practice. The Sounding Bronze is a hi-tek "empty wineskin" used by the WITCH of Endor where amplified MUMBLING was trafficed as the "demons."
The uncovered women "prophesiers" outside of the assembly in 1 Cor 11:5 were often out of the pagan oracles.There, being drunk on some drug they prophesied which was a musical gibberish. Paul warned in 1 Cor 14 that if they spoke even their own tongues or "native dialects" it would sound to the unbeliever as the MADNESS of the female prophesier.
The clangs and gongs are well documented throughout the literature pointing directly to the charismatic and musical madness which had to be silenced SO THAT the Word of God could be spoken "as it has been written" as Paul makes clear in Romans 15.
Strabo Geography 10.3.7
-In [10.3.7] Strabo continues, "The accounts which are more remotely related, however, to the present subject, but are wrongly, on account of the identity of the names, brought into the same connection by the historians--I mean those accounts which, although they are called "Curetan History" and "History of the Curetes," just as if they were the history of those Curetes who lived in Aetolia and Acarnania, not only are different from that history, but are more like the accounts of the Satyri, Sileni, Bacchae, and Tityri;
for the Curetes (clergy or priests), like these,
are called genii or ministers of gods by those who have
handed down to us the Cretan and the Phrygian traditions,
which are interwoven with certain sacred rites,
some mystical, the others connected in part
with the rearing of the child Zeus in Crete and
inpart with the orgies in honor of the mother of the gods
which are celebrated in Phrygia and in the region of the Trojan Ida.
But the variation in these accounts is so small that, whereas some represent the Corybantes, the Cabeiri, the Idaean Dactyli, and the Telchines as identical with the Curetes, others represent them as all kinsmen of one another and differentiate only certain small matters in which they differ in respect to one another;
but, roughly speaking and in general, they represent them, one and all, as a kind of inspired people and as subject to Bacchic frenzy, and,
in the guise of ministers, as inspiring terror at the celebration of the sacred rites by means of war-dances,
accompanied by uproar and noise and cymbals and drums and arms, and also by flute and outcry;and consequently these rites are in a way regarded as having a common relationship, I mean these and those of the Samothracians and those in Lemnos and in several other places, because the divine ministers are called the same. However, every investigation of this kind pertains to theology, and is not foreign to the speculation of the philosopher.
"The 'sounding gong and tinkling cymbal' used in such worship are mentioned in a derogatory sense in 1 Corinthians 13:1; but the religious outcry itself is dealt with more directly. It is essential that we understand that much of the shouting involved in the rite was the specific function of women. Euripides describes the advent of Dionysiac religion to Thebes thus: 'This city, first in Hellas, now shrills and echoes to my women's cries, their ecstasy of joy' (Click: Bacchae, 11, 20-24)
Anon shall the whole land be dancing, when Bromius leads his revellers to the hills, to the hills away! where wait him groups of maidens from loom and shuttle roused in frantic haste by Dionysus. O hidden cave of the Curetes! O hallowed haunts in Crete, that saw Zeus born,
where Corybantes with crested helms devised for me in their grotto the rounded timbrel of ox-hide (lifeless instrument),
mingling Bacchic minstrelsy with the shrill sweet accents of the Phrygian flute, a gift bestowed by them on mother Rhea, to add its crash of music to the Bacchantes' shouts of joy;but frantic satyrs (homosexual priests) won it from the mother-goddess for their own, and added it to their dances in festivals, which gladden the heart of Dionysus, each third recurrent year.
Oh! happy that votary, when from the hurrying revel-rout he sinks to earth, in his holy robe of fawnskin, chasing the goat to drink its blood, a banquet sweet of flesh uncooked, as he hastes to Phrygia's or to Libya's hills; while in the van the Bromian god exults with cries of Evoe (Eve, Zoe and now Mary).
The word used here for 'cry' is olulugia, defined by the Etymologicum Magnum as 'the sound which women make to exult in worship' and by E.R. Dodds as 'the women's ritual cry of triumph or thanksgiving'.
Menander also demonstrates women's role in worship: 'We were offering sacrifice five times a day, and seven serving women were beating cymbals around us while the rest of the women pitched high the chant (olulugia)' (Fragment 326).
Women were expected, then, to provide certain types of sound-effects; and some of these effects seem to have been limited to feminine ministrants.
Pausanias tells of 'the mountain they say was called Eva from the Bacchic cry 'Evoe' which Dionysus and his attendant women first uttered there' (Descr. of Greece, IV, xxxi)
Pausanias on Corinth: Greeks considered madness an important aspect of worship. Women in particular responded to Bacchus (also known as Dionysus), the god of madness; 'him of the orgiastic cry, exciter of women, Dionysus, glorified with mad honors'. (Plutarch, Moralia 671c Ancient Corinth was a center of Dionysiac worship, and Pausinius, world traveler of the second century of our era gives this description:
In the market-place, for most of the temples are there, is the Ephesian Artemis, and there are two wooden statues of Dionysus, gilt except the faces, which are painted with red paint, one they call Lysian Dionysus and the other Dionysus the Reveler. The tradition about these statues I will record. Pentheus, they say, when he outraged dionysus, among other acts of reckless daring actually at last went to mount Cithaeron to spy on the women, and climbed up into a tree to see what they were doing; and when they detected him, they forthwith dragged him down, and tore him limb from limb. And afterwards, so they say at Corinth, the Pythian priestess told them to discover that tree and pay it divine honors. And that is why these statues are made of that very wood. (Description of Greece, II.ii; tr. A.R. Shilleto)
See how Tom Burgess, etal us examples of harp PLUCKING (psallo) to prove that Christians should PLUCK in the assembly which is a "school of the Bible." One such proof text is Moralia. That is why all of the proof texts point mystically to perverted males getting "youth ministers" ready to pluck..
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