Exodus 18 defined non-mercinary elders to TEACH groups as small as 10 families who where quarantined to their small village and could not attend the Worship of the starry nost in Jerusalem. The Spirit of Christ in the wilderness excluded vocal or instrumental rejoicing or Al Maxey's form of composing his own "scriptures."Al Maxey Premise: While Jack is preparing his defense of the "law of silence" as a hermeneutical tool for establishing "authority," let me throw a "monkey wrench" into the works. I believe the entire synagogue system, and the participation of our Lord within it, speaks powerfully to this matter. I would ask Jack (and others) to please consider carefully the following thoughts.
The direct command is to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for comfort and doctrine. Therefore, the deep psychological motive might be to explain what they will say to God when they corrupted the word by selling their learning at wholesale.
Christ in Isaiah 57 commands the Law of Silence for both male and female other than teaching that which has been taught
The Ekklesia as A Church of Christ or Paul's use of SYNAGOGUE demanded the silencing of all of the performing arts so that they could "use one mind and one mouth to speak that which is written for our learning."
Isa 57:1 THE righteous
perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart:
and merciful men are taken away,
none considering
that the righteous
is taken away from the evil to come.
Isa 57:2 He shall enter into peace:
they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness.
rĕ-quĭesco
B. Trop., to repose, find rest, take consolation:
II. Act., to let rest; to stop, stay, arrest turba
turba . a turmoil, hubbub, uproar, disorder, tumult, commotion, disturbance, of a crowd of people “turbae carmina,”
“inanium verborum,” Quint. 8, 2, 17: “argumentorum,”
Isa 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.These monuments always show the Israelites as having straight noses, typical of Anglo Saxons. Other monuments, when they show Hittites or other Canaanite people, always show a hook nosed face.
Naturally such Canaanite faces would stand out in contrast to the Anglo Saxon, Israelite faces of Jerusalem. Even today these Canaanite faces stand out in Washington, D.C., London, New York, Los Angeles and other governmental or commercial cities. These are the people that can be recognized by the mere sight of their faces. These were the people that told the entire house of Israel to get out of Jerusalem, as these Canaanites were taking the land for themselves.
These infiltrating Canaanites weren't part of Yahweh's own vine, for they never were any part of true Israel. They had secured positions of wealth and power in Israel and Judah. They were corrupting the nation so that it was no longer bearing the sort of fruit, which Yahweh expected from His vine.
These Canaanite infiltrators are also the same people against whom Yahweh spoke in Isaiah 57:3-4. In the Hebrew He calls these Canaanites, "children of inborn transgression, and a false seed."
Isa 57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
against whom make ye a wide
mouth, and draw out the tongue? are
ye not children of transgression, a seed
of falsehood,
ludo to to SPORT play at a game of some kind:Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song: “ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti,”
B. to sport, dally, wanton (cf. "amorous play," Milton, P. L. 9, 1045): “scis solere illam aetatem tali ludo ludere,” Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 36
“ludere opus,” to imitate work, make believe work,
Sport:
Anag (h6026) aw-nag'; a prim. root; to be soft or pliable, i. e. (fig.) effeminate or luxurious: - delicate (-ness), (have) delight (self), sport self.
Empaizô , fut. - mock at, mock, tini2. euphem. in mal. part., LXXJd. 19.25.
- Jdg 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
- The viol or nebel is named after VILE which can be an empty bag or a harp.
- Jdg 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go
- Illudo to play at or with any thing, to sport with, amuse one's self with, 2. To sport or fool away a thing, i. e. to destroy or waste in sport; in mal. part., to violate, abuse
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: Je.27:9
- 3. Pass., to be deluded, Ev.Matt.2.16, AP10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val.16.14; to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just.1.34.2.
- II. sport in or on, hôs nebros chloerais e. leimakos hędonais E.Ba. 866 (lyr.); tois choroisin e. to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975; tôi gumnasiôi Luc.Lex.5 .
- Hędonę A. enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24, al.; prop. of sensual pleasures,
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Is.55:2
1.04.11 When people speak out of their own imagination instead of the Word as Spirit by Christ in the Prophets and Apostles, Christ calls it blasphemy. Of Hezekiah's Plague stopping exorcism used to say that "God commanded instrumental praise and we must not be disobedient" Christ calls them BLASPHEMERS.
See Christ defining Blasphemy of The Holy Spirit
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them
in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: (CENI)
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, (CENI)
that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23
Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,Despise tthe Word of God of God and using your own words is:
The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you. "You can SOW discord and steal from the owners"
Blasphēm-eō , pf.A. “beblasphēmēka” D.18.10:—speak profanely of sacred things, “eis theous” Pl.R.381e; offer rash prayers, Id.Alc.2.149c; b. kata tinosutter imprecations against, Aeschin.1.180.2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander, “peri tēs emēs diatribēs” Isoc.15.2, cf. D.l.c., ib.82; “b. kata tinos” Isoc.12.65, cf. Arist.Fr.44; “hosa eis hēmas eblasphēmēsan” D.51.3; “b. tina” Babr.71.6, Ev.Luc.23.39, etc.: abs., Phld.Lib.p.8 O.:—Pass., to have evil spoken of one, “beblasphēmēmenous” Id.Vit.p.12 J., cf. 1 Ep.Cor.10.30.3. speak impiously or irreverently of God, blaspheme, “eis ton Kurion” LXX Da.3.29(96); “eis to pneuma to hagion” Ev.Marc.3.29; eis ta theia Vett. Val.58.12; “tous theous” Id.67.20: abs., LXX 2 Ma.10.34, al., Ev.Matt.9.3.
Before
looking
at lots of background, let me say that the Qahal,
synagogue or
church in the wilderness was defined for the general
population who
were NEVER to come near either the Tabernacle or
Temple. Both
vocal and instrumental rejoicing were outlawed--if you
need legalist to
silence you in the presence of God's Word being taught "as
it had been
revealed" and never required a preacher: The Holy
Convocatio
is
h4744 Miqra which came to be each SABBATH day to read and
rehearse the
Word of God. The church was and is a school of the Bible:
if Al Maxey
wants to sing, clap, dance and play then I'm sure that a
Jewish mother
would hurt him real bad.
- The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)
The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai’. The people of Israel, looked upon as ‘a called-out assembly’ were ‘the Church’ of that period.
Notes
with
blue background added
7.27.09
WHAT IS DIRECTLY COMMANDED FOR THE CHURCH
Catholic Encyclopedia.
Every seven years, that is in the year of release, during the feast of Tabernacles,
the Law was to be read before all the people according to the command found in Deut., xxxi, 10.
But this enactment was probably soon found to be impracticable;
and thus the Jewish authorities arranged to read on every sabbath,
commencing with the sabbath after the feast of Tabernacles in one year of release
and ending with the feast of Tabernacles in the next year of release,
a portion of the Law so calculated that the whole Pentateuch would be read through in seven years.
This would in some way the commandment be fulfilled. Some time later,
the Jews of Palestine lengthened the sections for each sabbath
in such a manner that he entire Law could be read in three years (Talm. Babyl. Megillah, 29b).
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something called out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Ne.8:8
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. Is.4:5
WHAT IS DIRECTLY EXCLUDED FOR THE CHURCH
God only authorized the two silver trumpets: these were reserved for sending important signals. However, many people had their own flutes or shofars, tambourines and sistrums: Miriam had here sistrum as a priestess or prophetess in Egypt. The women especially were prone to parade around singing, clapping, dancing and beating on instruments. Therefore, the command:
Num. 10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
Num. 10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys."Despite the differences between the Mosaic and the Egyptian cults, it can hardly be denied that Egyptian influence on Jewish musical practices were quite significant. They would stand to reason because of the high quality of egyptian cultic music.
The tambourine or timbrel, a hoop of bells over which a white skin was stretched, came from Egypt. Miriam used this instrument to accompany the singing and dancing on the shores of the Red Sea (Ex. 15).
The trumpet blown for decampment, at the gathering of the people and on different cultic occasions, especially during sacrifices (2 Chron. 30:21; 35:15; Num 10:2), was the signaling instrument of the Egyptian army.
The sistrum, according to 2 Sam 6:5, was used by the Israelites and bore the name mena'aneim. It was the same as the Egyptian kemkem which was employed in the cult of Isis.
The solemnity celebrated on the occasion of the transferring of the Ark to Sion, as well as the dances of the daughters of Israel at the annual feast of the Lord of Shiloh (Judg 21:21), were similar in thier musical embellishments to Egyptian customs in the liturgy and at parades. As Herodotus reports,
women sang the praises of Osiris while likenesses of the gods were born about and, during the festival of Diana at Bubastis,
choirs of men and women sang and danced to the beating of drums and the playing of flutes." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 65)
However, for the Qahal or Church assembly which was only for teaching the Word, the triumph or alarm blowing of instruments and vocal rejoicing was outlawed. First, this would signal an unlawful assembly and would be a warning. Secind, it would creates the alarm or sense of panic made by any loud vocal or instrumental noises. Thirdly, it would put the people in an aroused state making hearing and learning the Word impossible. Fouth, Calvin notes that no one should attend an assembly not called by God Himself.
The Israelites in Egypt were under the same pagan influences as in Greece and in Babylon to which they were doomed to return because of musical idolatry. The sentence was conditional and Moses warned the people in advance the signs that their second chance had been forfeited.
The Latin defines the synagogue or church in the wilderness as an ACADEMIA
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN HOLD SYNAGOGUE OR SCHOOL OF THE BIBLENumbers 10: [7] But when the assembly is to be gathered together,
you shall blow,
but you shall not sound an alarm.
[7] quando autem congregandus est populus simplex tubarum clangor erit et non concise ululabuntCon-grĕgo Congrego Academia congregation. Collect into a flock, where plato taught, scholars are called Academici, and his doctrine Philosophia Academica in distinction from the Stoica, Cynica. .. The philosophy of the Acadamy, A. For The philosophy of the Academy: instaret academia, quae quidquid dixisses, SunageiroMUSIC ALWAYS IDENTIFIED THE DOGS OR CYNICS EXCLUDED FROM WORSHIP IN THE SPIRIT AS A SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE
The Academi of Jesus Christ is the OPPOSITE of the Academy of the CYNICS--the DOGS as old style praise singers Paul OUTLAWED for worship in Spirit and John condemned to the burn pile
in distinction from Stoica, Cynica, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 98
MEANING that everything including slick oration was for sale. Ornate dressing the hair, adorn, Copiosus of an orator, or of discourse, rich in language, copious in expression, eloquent:Dixisses: to say, speak, utter, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state, assert
Cyrenaica pleasure is the only good. Good in a pleasing agitation of the mind or in active enjoyment. hedone. Nothing is just or unjust by nature, but by custom and law.
- Cynici
- (Kunikoi). A name given to the followers of Antisthenes who founded a distinct school of philosophy at Athens about B.C. 380. Antisthenes had been a pupil of Socrates, and, like that philosopher, he taught that speculative philosophy was unprofitable, and should be supplanted by the practical ethical teaching whose end is a moral and tranquil life. In this respect the Cynic School was like the Stoic, but differed in defining virtue to be extreme simplicity in living.
- This simplicity the followers of Antisthenes pushed so far as to violate the most elementary notions of cleanliness and even decency, and to plunge into the most frantic excesses of austerity, wearing filthy clothing, eating raw meat, and treating all who approached them with insulting rudeness.
- Hence the name Kunikoi, "dog-like," was applied to them in its literal meaning, from their snarling insolence, though the name probably originated from the Gymnasium Cynosarges (q.v.), in which Antisthenes first taught. The most famous of the Cynics, Diogenes of Sinopé,
- accepted the name Kuôn with a sort of pride, and was pleased to be styled "Diogenes the Dog," saying, however, that he did not, like other dogs, bite his enemies,
- but only his friends and for their own good. Besides Antisthenes and Diogenes, the best known Cynics were Crates of Thebes ( Diog. Laert.vi. 86), Hipparchia and her brother Metrocles, Monimus of Syracuse, Menippus of Sinopé, whom Lucian describes as
- "one of the ancient dogs who barks a great deal" (Bis Accus. 33); and at Rome, Demetrius, the friend of Seneca, Oenomaüs of Gadara, and Demonax of Cyprus. Cynicism became ultimately merged in Stoicism.
Cynics Diogenes, in particular, was referred to as the Dog.. a distinction he seems to have revelled in, stating that "other dogs bite their enemies, I bite my friends to save them." Later Cynics also sought to turn the word to their advantage, as a later commentator explained:Argumentum I. A..The means by which an assertion or assumption may be made clear, proved, an argument, evidence, proof (and in particular, that which rests upon facts, while ratio is that which depends upon reasoning
There are four reasons why the Cynics are so named. First because of the indifference of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and at crossroads. The second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it. The third reason is that the dog is a good guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. The fourth reason is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. So do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.
He once masturbated in the Agora; when rebuked for doing so, he replied, "If only it was as easy to soothe my hunger by rubbing my belly."
Augustine stating that they had, "in violation of the modest instincts of men, boastfully proclaimed their unclean and shameless opinion, worthy indeed of dogs." De Civitate Dei 14.20.
From the city of God
Human nature, then, is without doubt ashamed of this lust; and justly so, for the insubordination of these members, and their defiance of the will, are the clear testimony of the punishment of man’s first sin. And it was fitting that this should appear specially in those parts by which is generated that nature which has been altered for the worse by that first and great sin,—that sin from whose evil connection no one can escape, unless God’s grace expiate in him individually that which was perpetrated to the destruction of all in common, when all were in one man, and which was avenged by God’s justice.
Phil. 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Phil. 3:3 For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh.
Presented to the Infirmus to those less nourishing, weak in mind in character, superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded. no weight or consequence
Romans XV. 1 debemus autem nos firmiores imbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Sustinere A. In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve with dignity.
Imbecillitas Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9This is in CONTRAST to the synagogues of the Cynics Paul identified as dogs identified by their howling style of "praise singing" seeking whom they might devour. They were Catamites or male prostitutes and Paul insisted that worship in the PLACE of the spirit would not give them a chance to get on the ministry team. If you MARK the church by reading and discussing the Word of God then they have no place to "feather bed."Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9 Caesar, Gallic War 7.77. LXXVII. But those who were blockaded at Alesia, the day being past, on which they had expected auxiliaries from their countrymen, and all their corn being consumed ignorant of what was going on among the Aedui, convened an assembly [Concilium Pastorium] and deliberated on the exigency of their situation. After various opinions had been expressed among them, some of which proposed a surrender, others a sally, while their strength would support it, the speech of Critognatus ought not to be omitted for its singular and detestable cruelty.
Blowing a horn would be like a church bell: the signal was simple and not musical in any sense. However, the giddy people in the small tribal groups would be--like Miriam and the women--prone to break out in the "praise" singing, clapping and "making noise on istruments of delusion."
Simplex I. In gen., simple, plain, uncompounded, unmixed,
Tuba Apart from military purposes, it was used on various occasions, as at religious festivals, games, funerals,Never forget that scholars note that the pagan practices of the Jews and Greeks were similar: those actually fet to lead the "worship of the starry host" would tend to trouble the Bible study assembly. Both Elijah and Josephus say that these Levites who exercised priestly tasks instead of servant tasks CAUSED the destruction of the nation and were wanting to do it again.
b. Sonorous, elevated epic poetry,
c. A lofty style of speaking,
II. Trop.:tuba belli civilis, i. e. exciter, author, instigato
Cicero F 6. The passport has not been issued at once, owing to the amazing rascality of certain persons, who would have been bitterly annoyed at a pardon being granted to you, whom that party call the "bugle of the civil war"--and a good many observations to the same effect are made by them, as though they were not positively glad of that war having occurred.
Vergil, Aeneid 5.104The praise singing of the Levites under the King and commanders of the army was the halal which meant to make yourself vile as a homosexual rape threat against the enemy. That MARK always existed among those wanting to get paid for poetry or music.
Now came the day desir'd. The skies were bright
With rosy luster of the rising light:
The bord'ring people, rous'd by sounding fame
Of Trojan feasts and great Acestes' name,
The crowded shore with acclamations fill,
Part to behold, and part to prove their skill.
And first the gifts in public view they place,
Green laurel wreaths, and palm, the victors' grace:
Within the circle, arms and tripods lie,
Ingots of gold and silver, heap'd on high,
And vests embroider'd, of the Tyrian dye.
The trumpet's clangor then the feast proclaims,
And all prepare for their appointed games.
Clango [kindred with crocio, glocio; cf. clamo and klazô] , to clang, to sound, resoundhorrida clangunt signa tubae, luctificum clangente tubā, clangunt aquilae, Auct. Carm. Phil. 28.
THIS IS DAVID'S "PRAISE" WORD AS A WARRIOR DOING BOAST CHANTS.
UluloUlŭlo I. Neutr., to howl, yell, shriek, utter a mournful cry. B.Transf., of places, to ring, resound, re-echo with howling:penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes Femineis ululant, Verg. A. 2, 488 :resonae ripae, Sil. 6, 285 :Dindyma sanguineis Gallis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 269 .--
Catullus,Carmina 63Fēmĭnĕus II.Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish, effeminate, unmanly:
Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy rite,
And as her tender finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
She rose a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
"Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,
Hie to the Dindymnean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
The which affecting stranger steads as bound in exile's brunt
My sect pursuing led by me have nerved you to confront
The raging surge of salty sea and ocean's tyrant hand
As your hate of Venus' [ZOE] hest your manly forms unmann'd,
Gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
Drive from your spirits dull delay, together follow ye
To hold of Phrygian goddess, home of Phrygian Cybebe,
Where loud the cymbal's voice resounds with timbrel-echoes blending,
And where the Phrygian piper drones grave bass from reed a-bending,
Where toss their ivy-circled heads with might the Maenades
Where ply mid shrilly lullilooes the holiest mysteries,
Where to fly here and there be wont the she-god's vaguing train,
Thither behoves us lead the dance in quick-step hasty strain."
Gallus A.Galli , ōrum, m., the priests of Cybele, so called because of their raving, Of or belonging to the priests of Isis,
This is undoubtedly a Greek retelling of the Moses, Miriam, Golden calf event.
Ovid Amours XII to Isis
Oh Isis, who delight'st to haunt the fields,
Where fruitful Nile his golden harvest yields,
Where with seven mouths into the sea it falls,
And hast thy walks around Canope's walls,
Who Memphis visit'st, and the Pharian tower,
Assist Corinna with thy friendly powers.
Exodus 15:20 Miriam was a prophetess wih noise. I.a foreteller, soothsayer, prophet, sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant, Aegyptius, propheta primariusSee howq Miriam conjured with the Sistra.
Exodus 15:[20] sumpsit ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis et chorisGod will afflict Miriam with leprosy when she claims to speak for God. The first meaning of prophet in the PAGAN sense meant a charismatic, musical performer. All dramatic performance is INTERPRETATION which is, according to Paul, just speaking in tongues.
Prophe-ta I. a foreteller, SOOTHSAYER prophet... oraculorumque interpretes, sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant, [Priestess of Egpt prophetess call out] Aegyptius, propheta primariusJesus only spoke through the writing prophets.
PHRASE: Aegyptius, propheta primarius1. Aegyptius,
2. Prophetai
3. Primarius I. one of the first, of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent, remarkable,
primarius parasitus,Thee by thy silver Sistra I conjure,
A life so precious by thy aid secure;
So mayst thou with Osiris still find grace:
By Anubis's venerable face,
I pray thee, so may still thy rights divine
Flourish, and serpents round thy offerings twine
May Apis with his horns the pomp attend, [the calf made of gold]
And be to thee, as thou'rt to her, a friend.
Look down, oh Isis! on the teeming fair,
And make at once her life and mine thy care:
Have pity on her pains; the help you give
To her, her lover saves, in her I live.
From thee this favour she deserves; she pays
Her vows to thee on all thy solemn days;
And when the Galli at thy altars wait,
She's present at the feast they celebrate.
The meaning of TRIUMPH OVER:
MORE IDENTIFYING MARKS OF THE ACADEMY OF THE CYNICS OR DOGS
- "The general was allowed to enter the city crowned with a wreath of laurel, bearing a scepter in one hand, and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a circular chariot, of a peculiar form, drawn by four horses. He was preceded by the senate and magistrates, musicians, the spoils, the captives in fetters, etc., and followed by his army on foot in marching order. The procession advanced in this manner to the Capitoline Hill, where sacrifices were offered, and victorious commander entertained with a public feast." Webster
(Kunikoi). A name given to the followers of Antisthenes who founded a distinct school of philosophy at Athens about B.C. 380. Antisthenes had been a pupil of Socrates, and, like that philosopher, he taught that speculative philosophy was unprofitable, and should be supplanted by the practical ethical teaching whose end is a moral and tranquil life. In this respect the Cynic School was like the Stoic, but differed in defining virtue to be extreme simplicity in living.
This simplicity the followers of Antisthenes pushed so far as to violate the most elementary notions of cleanliness and even decency, and to plunge into the most frantic excesses of austerity, wearing filthy clothing, eating raw meat, and treating all who approached them with insulting rudeness.
Hence the name Kunikoi, "dog-like," was applied to them in its literal meaning, from their snarling insolence, though the name probably originated from the Gymnasium Cynosarges (q.v.), in which Antisthenes first taught. The most famous of the Cynics, Diogenes of Sinopé,
accepted the name Kuôn with a sort of pride, and was pleased to be styled "Diogenes the Dog," saying, however, that he did not, like other dogs, bite his enemies,
but only his friends and for their own good. Besides Antisthenes and Diogenes, the best known Cynics were Crates of Thebes ( Diog. Laert.vi. 86), Hipparchia and her brother Metrocles, Monimus of Syracuse, Menippus of Sinopé, whom Lucian describes as
"one of the ancient dogs who barks a great deal" (Bis Accus. 33); and at Rome, Demetrius, the friend of Seneca, Oenomaüs of Gadara, and Demonax of Cyprus. Cynicism became ultimately merged in Stoicism.
Knikos , ę, on, ( [kuôn] ) dog-like, X.Cyr.5.2.17 (v.l. for huďkon); to k. kai thęriôdes tôn orexeôn Plu.2.133b ; k. spasmos unilateral facial paralysis, Cels.4.3.1, Gal.18(2).930; k. kaumata heat of the dogdays, Polyaen.2.30.3: metaph., ho anthrôpos k. currish, churlish, Vulgate 1 Sa 25.3 (?). Adv. -kôs, spômenoi Heliod. ap. Orib.48.38 tit.; in doglanguage, opp. boďkôs, etc., Porph.Abst.3.3.
II. Kunikos, ho, Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium ( [Kunosarges] ) where he taught, D.L.6.13; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, Diog.Cyn. ap. eund.6.60, Metrod.16, Polystr.p.20 W., Elias in Cat.111.2, etc.; Kratęti tôi k. Men.117 ; k. hairesis, askęsis, philosophia, Ph.1.352, J.AJ6.13.6, Jul.Or.6.187a; parręsiaVulgate 1 Samuel 15: [3] Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. [4]
Kunikos 1 [kuôn]
I. dog-like, Lat. caninus, Xen.
II. Kunikos, ou, a Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called,
AS PROMOTED BY TOM BURGESS AND ALL OF THOSE SOWING DISCORD OVER MUSICPLUTARCH
Tom Burgess: Examples 60 and 61 have been obtained from the writings of Plutarch. Plutarch's use of the word psallo is of great value and worth because he lived and wrote during the same period as did the Apostles (46-120A. D. ). His books, Parallel Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans and Moralia, are a great credit to Greek literature. Plutarch's use of psallo shows, without a doubt, that he knew nothing of any drastic change in the word which extracted the musical instrument from it s definition.
Three times in example 60 he uses a form of psallo. These have been translated: "plucked the strings, " "to pluck the strings, " and" pluck the strings," In example 61another form is translated "harpplayer, "
HERE IS THE MARK OF THOSE USING THE NACC PROOF TEXTS.
Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:
Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12.
"I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you."
"A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will,
let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated.
Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees? ... But if you will not allow this,
why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul;
and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure.Most music spoke of warfare, seeking victory and at times deciding life and death. That is why the NACC has always waged WORSHIP WARS
CAN WE CONSIDER THESE PEOPLE SINCERE BRETHREN?
Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without the lyre"; for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors..
The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without rhythm.
If it is metrical, it lacks persuasiveness, for it appears artificial,
and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention,
since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such a cadence..
According to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."
10.15.06 I have posted a rebuttal of Al Maxey's Shouting above the silence. He makes the strange assumption that the Old Testament does not command the Synagogue. Because Jesus READ the Bible in the synagogue Al thinks this refutes the "law of silence" and gives authority for adding instrumental music. He makes the same strage error or denying that one could eat bread during Passover. You KILL the Passover and EAT the passover and Al misses the WHOLE concept. Click for Al Shouting above Direct Commands to harshly pass judgment on his betters.
Al Maxey is an elder and preacher at the Cuba Avenue Church of christ, Alamogordo, NM. He identifies the following absolute truth about the universal outlawing of music as worship as "Dorkism" or some such RACA word.
> God restated the Abrahamic Covenant to Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai. This had no mandatory sacrifices and no "church meetings." By no means did it have paid preachers. This was The Book of the Covenant and was a system of Grace. The first born males were the teachers.
> God allowed Satan to test Israel just as he does us. The people could not exist without a VISIBLE presence of the invisible God. So, they threw in their gold and "out jumped this golden calf." The worship is perfectly defined by their worship in Egypt. The women of note were prophetesses and led the women in often obscene rituals. Miriam would have been a prophetess of Hathor and she was BITTER and caused the women to escape with singing, dancing and music.
"Before the establishment of the kingdom under Saul, it was the women who, as in every young civilization, played a major part in the performance of music. Such figures as Miriam, Deborah, Jephthah's daughter, and the women hailing the young hero David have become almost archetypes of female musicians.
"Characteristic of all these cases is the familiar picture of a female chorus, dancing and singing, accompanied by frenzied drum-beating.
This is the scene known to the entire Near East, and not
"even the severe rule of Islam could wholly suppress this age-old practice." (Int Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 457).> As a result, the Tabernale was radically changed and the common 'congregation' was quarantined on the penalty of death. Still, no one at that time dared to even make animal sacrifices with "music." The 613 tenets of the Law of Moses were given "because of transgression" through musical idolatry of the Egyptian triad.
> The people were now STRANGERS and could not enter into the Tabernacle. However, God's plan was that people learn His Laws. The ONLY occassion for an assembly of the people was for instruction and NEVER for worship.
> Stephen identifies the same self-pleasing rejoicing and says that God turned them over to worship the starry host. The synagogue is the commonly used word Qahal: when the Israelites synagogued in the wilderness it was ONLY for instruction or synagoguing. The assembly was the SYNAGOGUE or church in the wilderness.
> The ALARM or TRIUMPH OVER was the use of horns and twanging bowstrings to drive the enemy into panic or modern-day frenzy or anxiety hoping that they would turn coward and run. That is what happens when the musical sectarians attack with music: the effect is that of FIGHT, FLIGHT or SEXUAL SEEKING SALLY. God authorized them to use the trumpets like a "church bell" to call assembly. However, they could not "play instruments and make a joyful noise to the lord." EVERYONE understood that to be the TRIUMPH OVER which Psalm 41 prophesied of JUDAS whose "bag" was for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments.
> Al Maxey is wrong and is caught up into the cycle defined in the Book of Enoch and other accounts which says that once you are seduced by "music" which, the Bible agrees, was brought by Lucifer to "wholly seduce" Eve and "make Adam bow," you have fallen and you will spend the rest of your life trying to find people to join the merry band.
The Bible associates "music" with Satan, prostitutes, children and those sacrificing TYPES of Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, no singer or musician or preacher could enter into the Holy Place as a destructive type of the body or church of Christ. "Musicians" were warriors and were used by the king and commanders of the army to give glory to the earthly kingdom, king and temple. This condemnation is universal in the Bible and in contemporaneous literature which always associates music and musicians with the homosexual priests of the "nations" pagan, perverted "worship" using "rituals."
ALL ASSEMBLIES OF MASS GROUPS CREATES SPIRITUAL ANXIETY. That is why Jesus died to remove both the BURDEN and the BURDEN LADERS. Jesus invited the BURDEN LADEN (also meaning "an extra tax") to come to HIM in twos and threes (Paul said, "outside the city" or camp) to "come learn of ME." Paul understood the assembly to be the synagogue: there were no praise services in the synagogues. Therefore, we can INFER that the Christian synagogues had no praise service. If we cannot grasp that Paul said to SPEAK to one another with "that which is written."
THE ENEMY OF THE SPIRIT AND OF GOD IS RITUAL WORSHIP. The Pharisees spoke and prayed and collected BECAUSE they claimed to have a SUPERIOR CONNECTION TO GOD. Why else would one HIRE OUT to be THE authorative teacher usurping the role of the Living Word in the Written Word? It is NOT POSSIBLE to be a Biblical Pharisee without being a PROFESSIONAL "Pharisee [preacher-prayer], Scribe [sermon and song writer] or Hypocrite. The Hypocrite was a SECTARIAN group of the Pharisees along with the Scribes. They were singers, musicians or actors whose "night job" among the Greeks was male or female prostitutes:
Threskia worship of ANY RITUAL is derived from the musical Orpheus. Therefore, James defines pure threskia not in terms of rituals or ACTS. On the other hand James shows that the SILENCE demanded for the synagogue or school of the bible would silence anyone who did not glorify God "with that which is written." Rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers and musicians performed the role of sorcery. Because anything they ADDED to what is written would prove them a parasite:
The 'unholy harlot' worship is identified when RITUALS are performed from silence such as music and preaching "that which is NOT written." Jesus died to build a SYNAGOGUE and not a pagan worship center. Jesus is our ONLY teacher and only when we SPEAK and we speak as the oracles of God. Paul insisted that faithful and qualified elders TEACH THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT. That leaves no room for the unfaithful dogs slink in:
FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Phil 3:1
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Phil 3:2
For we are the circumcision,
........ which worship God in the spirit,
........ and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
........ and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Phil 3:20
Politeuma (g4175) pol-it'-yoo-mah; from 4176; a community, i.e. (abstr.) citizenship (fig.): - conversation.
Oikuteyinau (g4176)pol-it-yoo'-om-ahee; mid. of a der. of 4177; to behave as a citizen (fig.): - let conversation be, live.
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
........ that ye stand fast
........ in one spirit,
........ with one mind
........ striving together for
........... the faith of the gospel; Ph.1:27
OUTLAWING THE MUSIC JOHN CALLS SORCERY IN REVELATION 18
All musical and instrument terms speak of enchantment or sorcery: instruments are "machines for doing hard work." Most often the magicians or wizards sought to HEAR where God had not spoken. That is why God spoke INCLUSIVELY and EXCLUSIVELY.
Dt 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
The Hebrew for "serpent" in Genesis 3:1 nachash which means to hiss, mutter or whisper as do enchanters. It also means in a secondary sense to divine, or enchant or mesmerize, as a snake often does before catching its prey. It also has the meaning to shine or sparkle, like bronze or copper. Some Scriptures also tell us that Satan has an extremely attractive appearance (see e.g. 2 Cor. 11:3, 14), and this Hebrew word therefore also conveys the meaning to fascinated bewitch. (Cp. Deut. 18:10-14).
Dt 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Divination:
H7081 qesem keh'-sem From H7080 ; a lot; also divination (including its fee), oracle:--(reward of) divination, divine sentence, witchcraft.
H7080 qâsam kaw-sam' A primitive root; properly to distribute, that is, determine by lot or magical scroll; by implication to divine:--divine (-r, -ation), prudent, soothsayer, use [divination].
Observer of times:
H6049 ‛ânan aw-nan' A primitive root; to cover; used only as denominative from H6051 , to cloud over; figuratively to act covertly, that is, practise magic, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
David had these on his staff because he was abandoned to worship the starry host. "We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'AROUSERS,' sang (every morning?) this verse from "Ps 44:23: "Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever." The Talmud tells us that John Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom." (Roland de Vaux, p. 247).Enchanter:
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:-- X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
H5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its hiss):--serpent.
H3784 kâshaph kaw-shaf' A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic:--sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).
The only way to MARK those trying to SPEAK where God has been SILENT is defined by God for all times. Please note that the Spirit OF Christ spoke only through the prophets. All of the prophets radically condemn the sacrificial system and the MUSIC of the national "worship of the starry host" God had abandoned Israel to BECAUSE of musical idolatry.
Deut 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto the
and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Jesus as "son" spoke only what He heard from the "father" who was within. Classical trinitarians define God as Father of the thought. When He speaks his wordS are defined as His Son. Therefore, not even Jesus Christ spoke form SILENCE.
Deut 18:19 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deut 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die.
Does Al Maxey think that he is a prophet? Superior to a prophet? Superior to Jesus Christ as the incarnated WORDS of the invisible, inaudible Deity?
Deut 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart,
How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
Note in reviewing Al Maxey's Shouting above the Silence, we noted that it was the Christian Church which defined the Law of Silence to mean that where God in Christ has not spoken then He gives ME the authority to decide for myself. After that we have a NEW Word of God. That means--based on Maxey's hostility--that YOU have no authority to hear a different message from Silence. H. Leo Boles who marks the end of any effort to work together with the Disciples (Christian church) that it was not silence but the Baptist "missionary society" introduced in 1949 which shut down any effort to "fellowship."
Deut 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord,
if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken,
but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.God is NEVER silent about what HE wants from us. People look for LOOPHOLES because they are LEGALISTS and are not happy with the LOUD VOICE of God. Paul in silencing the diversities of the marketplace in Romans 14 defines the DIRECT COMMAND for the synagogue or ekklesia founded by Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong
........... ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,
........... and not to please ourselves.Rather than aggitate and drive away the infirm and OLD, the direct command is that as a SCHOOL of the Bible we are to BEAR the burdens of the weak.
The word PLEASE is to LIFT UP with AROUSAL SINGING to CARRY AWAY (heresy) people for THEIR OWN USES.
Rom 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour
........... for his good to edification.The word means INSTRUCTION or EDUCATION. No one is "edified" by violating the direct command of Paul and the example of Jesus NOT to fall into the singing, dancing, sexaul ritual.
The DIRECT COMMAND is to teach our NEIGHBORS: not a FAMILY or COMMUNE.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Phil 3:20
Politeuma (g4175) pol-it'-yoo-mah; from 4176; a community, i.e. (abstr.) citizenship (fig.): - conversation.
Rom 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself;
........... but, as it is written,
........... The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.Reproaches are also an attempt to EXPOSE one's nakedness: real or virtual.
Cherphah (h2781) kher-paw'; from 2778; contumely, disgrace, the pudenda: - rebuke, reproach (-fully), shame.
Charaph (g2778) khaw-raf'; a prim. root; to pull off, i. e. (by impl.) to expose (as by stripping); spec. to betroth (as if a surrender)
Lu.7:3 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Arousing people with musical PLEASURING is making the naked: the "minister" gets his kicks on route 666 when he sees the ooohing and awing and body pumping.
If you are not illiterate that is a LAW against having musical sex as the meaning of IMpure religion. If you NEED a direct command not to expose your nakedness then you MAY be the more legalistic.
Jesus founded an EKKLESIA or SYNAGOGUE or SCHOOL of the Bible to give us REST from the spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals: performing sex but claiming that the "spirits" are HOLY and blaspheming God.
Rom 15:4 For
........... whatsoever things were written aforetime
........... were written for our learning,
........... that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
........... might have hopeJesus Christ is the "another Comforter" and the ONLY ONE. Paul claims that he COMFORTS us through the Scriptures.
Rom 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
........... grant you to be likeminded one toward another
........... according to Christ Jesus:ONLY THEN, can you be a "church of Christ" insteade of a COMMUNITY which always meant COMMUNE.
Rom 15:6 That ye may with
........... one mind and
........... one mouth
........... glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.There is a direct command defining how we praise God: we speak the songs and sermons of God in Jesus Christ and the prophets.
Charismatic (perverted--sexual) performance rituals SOW DISCORD with a high hand because too many of the "worship masters" have made it perfectly clear that they would prefer that the old people GET OUT.
Rom 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another,
........... as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.This is also the only way Christ Himself can "sing to the Gentiles" as church is TEACHING body and NOT a pagan worship center.
Most PhDuhs will say that GOD NEVER SPOKE on the meaning: therefore WE can make up our own. Jesus said that speaking ON OUR OWN proves that we are sons of the Devil.
A TRUE FAST on the Sabbath OUTLAWED "speaking your own words" because synagogue was to READ or REHEARSE the Word of God JUST as Paul commanded to Timothy.
If you think that God is SILENT then read 2 Cor 3. In all of his letters Paul defines the ekklesia or assembly similar to the synagogue which "had no praise service."
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
........ to be strengthened with might
........ by his spirit
........ in the inner man; Ephesians 3:16That Christ may dwell
........ in your hearts by faith;
........ that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Ephesians 3:17But I see another law in my members,
........ warring against the law of my mind,and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
........ which is in my members. Romans 7:23O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me
........ from the body of this death? Romans 7:24
All who "see godliness as a means of financial gain" see the school of Christ as OCCUPATION. There ARE no professions in the church: only ministers who forsake all and GO into the world are worthy of the "daily dole of food" of the temple servant. That is why the Greek world defined rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers, musicians and 'technocrats' as SORCERERS and therefore the PARASITES. Parasites were named after the obsolete servants in sacrificial rituals.
"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music. Nor the tortures of Mithras
The word in the Bible is:
Threskos (g2357) thrace'-kos; prob. from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship (as demonstrative), i.e. pious: - religious.
"If any one perchance thinks that we are speaking calumnies, let him take the books of the Thracian soothsayer (Orpheus the inventor of musical soothsaying), which you speak of as of divine antiquity;
and he will find that we are neither cunningly inventing anything,
nor seeking means to bring the holiness of the gods into ridicule,
and doing so: for we shall bring forward the very verses which the son of Calliope uttered in the Greek,and published abroad in his songs to the human race through out all all ages." (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 499).
Paul equated speaking in tongues to blowing of trumpets as unclear signals of warfare. He said that we do not make war with CARNAL WEAPONS which are CARNAL INSTRUMENTS:
Mention is often made of the singing and dancing of the Thracians, especially of a martial kind. Xenophon (Anab. vi. 1. § 5, seq.) gives an account of a dance and combat performed by some Thracians, to celebrate the conclusion of a peace between the remnant of the 10,000 Greeks and the Paphlagonians:
they danced fully armed to the music of the flute, jumping up nimbly to a considerable height,
and fencing with their swords:at last, one man struck another, to all appearance mortally and he fell as if [p. 1184] dead, though in reality not in the least injured, His antagonist then stripped off his armour, and went out singing the praises of Sitalces, while the other man was carried out like a corpse by his comrades (cf. Ib. vii. 3. § 32, seq.; Tac. Ann. iv. 47).
The primary "worship" word was conducting real or pretend warfare: the dueling harps:
Their music was rude and noisy. Strabo (x. p. 471) compares it to that of the Phrygians, whom, indeed, he regards as descended from the Thracians. Xenophon, in the passage last referred to,
says that they played on horns and on trumpets made of raw ox-hide.
Their worship of Dionysus and Cotytto was celebrated on mountain tops with loud instruments of music, shouting, and noises like the bellowing of cattle. (Strab. x. p. 470.)Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? 1 Corinthians 14:7NAS
If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played? 1 Cor 14:7
Of Thracia:
And ever on the watch from their place of prospect with its fair haven, often from many had they taken away their sweet return, consuming them with the waste desire; and suddenly to the heroes, too,
they sent forth from their lips a lily-like voice (opa leirion). And they were already about to cast from the ship the hawesers to the shore,
had not Thracian Orpheus, son of Oeagrus, stringing in his hands his Bistonian lyre (phorminx),
rung forth the hasty snatch of a rippling melody so that their ears might be filled with the sound of his twanging; and the lyre (phorminx) overcame the maidens' voice.
And the west wind and the sounding wave rushing astern bore the ship on; and the Sirens kept uttering their ceaseless song. (Translation: Seaton 1980)
They spoke a barbarian language, that is, one unintelligible to the Greeks, we must despair of being able to comprehend these accounts of the ancient Thracian minstrels, and of assigning them a place in the history of Grecian civilisation; since it is [p. 1181] manifest that at this early period, when there was scarcely any intercourse between different nations, or knowledge of foreign tongues,
poets who sang in an unintelligible language could not have had more influence on the mental development of the people than the twittering of birds.
If the Greek testimony associates music with warfare, sexuality and sorcery, and Paul uses the same language to define the SPEAKING in the tongues of Barbarians in Corinth, why isn't it LOGICAL to INFER that this supports the entire Biblical view and Secular writings about MUSIC AS WORSHIP?
If all of history associates RITUAL worship and a HIRED "interpreter of the gods" with men who are clearly types of SATAN, and Paul and Peter outlawing PRIVATE INTERPRETATION or further expounding, why is it a demonic INFERENCE to conclude that such "messengers of the gods" are now UNLAWFUL and eternal damaging to the SCHOOL OF CHRIST?
Paul says that a Jewish converts MUST worship in the PLACE of the spirit because OUTSIDE are dogs and sorcerers.
Ceremonial legalism speaks of EXTERNAL RITUALS where Pharisees change the Words of God and DO rituals such as "praying" or "preaching." God in Christ died to set us free: Paxil has "doing church ceremonies" as their best promoters because RELIGIONISTS cannot survive without MANUFACTURING "spiritual anxiety through religious rituals."
Jesus died so we can come aside to REST and "learn of me." Jesus never USED musical performers: in fact He cast them out more or less violently as one ejects DUNG. What can one INFER from that? Oh, I know, that was the OLDEN Jesus Who has been replaced by the Spirit. But the name of the Spirit and/or Father, Son and Spirit is Jehovah- Saves.
"Melody" produces the same SENSE OF ANXIETY one felt when he heard Apollo's (Abaddon, Apollyon) twanging bowstring and then the "singing" arrow aimed directly at one's literal heart.
How can sectarians INFER that that has no meaning?
There ARE NO MUSIC words associated with spiritual religion.
How MUST anyone who cares about people INFER that the Bible is FILLED with direct commands to make music. Yea, Max Lucado says that the Spirit is God's song writer and dance master!
The Bible condemns music it as Satanic beginning in heaven and the garden of Eden. The serpent was a MUSICAL ENCHANTER just as the serpent in Revelation is the sOPHISts, singers and musicans: just stinging people with deadly venom.
Why would anyone want to use THE LAW OF SILENCE and INFER that music is acceptable when he KNOWS--or should know--that he is deliberately sowing discord among the brethren?
Did you know that Paul said that we live, move and have our being in God: He is not far off that we have to send for a message. We LIVE in a three-dimensioned world and also in time. Paul said that we live in the SPIRITS or MINDS and we live in a FOURTH DIMENSIONED WORLD!
Therefore, it is heresy to claim to be able to assist you in worship--for a price, always for a price!
Paul was literate and taught enough to grasp that Jesus said that God only SEEKS those who worship in the new PLACE of a spirit made holy as it is devoted to the Truth.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cor 4:18
FOR we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Co.5:1
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Heb.9:11
Al, this says that Christ IS NOT the high priest over your house "made with human hands" for "worship by human hands."
Why can professional, performing priestcraft INFER that we MUST come to the hand-made Tabernacle to "worship" when our citizenship has been transferred into heaven?
Unlawful preachers who legalistically look for SILENCE to give them permission to sow discord and teach error are in a FOOD FIGHT with the same kind. It is the old shell game: the pea is not under EITHER institutional legalists.
The MADNES Paul identified in Corinth was always induced by the uncovered women prophesiers condemned in 11:5.
mustagog-ia
II. mystical doctrine, Iamb.Myst.1.1; he Chaldaion (clanging brass)
III. divine worship, Just.Nov.58.Chaldaios
I. a Chaldaean, Hdt., etc.
II. an astrologer, caster of nativities, Cic., etc.THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1Co.13:1
Chalkos (g5475) khal-kos'; perh. from 5465 through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose); copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it): - brass, money.
The "familiar spirit" of the witch of Endor was a "musical instrument."
Owb (h178) obe; from the same as 1 (appar. through the idea of prattling a father's name); prop. a mumble, i. e. a water-skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar): - bottle, familiar spirit.
This has the same meaning as the harp:
Nebel (h5034) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel; from 5034; a skin- bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): - bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol
Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make vile, wither..
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Na.3:6
A gazing stock is:
Raiy (h7210) ro-ee'; from 7200; sight, whether abstr. (vision) or concr. (a spectacle): - gazingstock, look to, (that) see (-th).
When the musical minstrels wanted to perform their religious and superstitious ritual over the dead girl, Jesus CAST THEM out "more or less violently" as one "casts out dung." In Athens the same city official regulated the flute-girls who were prostitutes, the cemetary and the dung heap.
Nabal (h5036) naw-bawl'; from 5034; stupid; wicked (espec. impious): - fool (-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
Often associated with:
Magos Magian, one of a Median tribe, Hdt.1.101, Str. 15.3.1: hence, as belonging to this tribe,
2. one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, Hdt.7.37, al., Arist.Fr. 36, Phoen.1.5, Ev.Matt.2.1.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Cor 1:20
Wise is the Sophist: the serpents of Revelation.
In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: "Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?" Isa 33:18
Shaqal (h8254) shaw-kal'; a prim. root; to suspend or poise (espec. in trade): - pay, receive (-r), spend, * throughly, weigh.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zec.11:12
Why would you INFER that the Bible is silent about "the law of giving?" How can you use THE LAW OF SILENCE and and, when Paul said, "this is not a law" you INFER that Paul meant "This IS the law of giving."
3. enchanter, wizard, esp. in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, Heraclit.14, S.OT387, E.Or.1498 (lyr.), Pl.R.572e, Act.Ap.13.6, Vett. Val.74.17: also fem., Luc.Asin.4, AP 5.15 (Marc. Arg.).
A Chanter is such a wizard and because he has none of his pretended power he is a charlatan. The musical enchantr or serpent in the garden of Eden was a musical enchanter. Why would you INFER that the Bible is SILENT by associating music as the "carnal weapon" to bleed off worship due only to a Spirit God in the new PLACE of our human Spirit?
II. magos, on, as Adj., magical, magps technei prattein ti Philostr.VA1.2 ; kestou phoneusa magotera AP5.120 (Phld.). (Opers. magus( 'Magian'.)
techne
I. art, skill, craft in work, cunning of hand, esp. of metal-working, Od.; of a shipwright, Il.; of a soothsayer
2. art, craft, cunning, in bad sense, dolie t. Od.; in pl. arts, wiles, cunning devicesThe music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No workman (techne) of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again. Rev 18:22
How can you INFER that the religious performers and technocrats are really God's CHOSEN AGENTS of Change when He says that they are signs that the Babylon harlot worship has begun with the locusts (muses or performers) being resurrected by Apollo or Abbadon or Apollyon?
Similar Definition to the techne-crats:
Babulon , onos, he, Babylon, Alc.Supp.16.10, etc.:--Babulonioi , hoi, Babylonians, Hdt.1.77, etc., and Babulonia , he, Babylonia, Arist. Oec.1352b27:--also Babuloneus , eos, ho, St.Byz.; fem. Babulonis , idos, Nonn.D.40.303:--Adj. Babulonios , a, on, Hdt.1.106, etc.; os, on, Arr.An.6.29.6; or Babuloniakos , e, on, Alex.308.
Theiazo , (theios A) to be inspired, frenzied, hoposoi autous theiasantes epelpisan as many as made them hope by divinations, Th.8.1; th. kai theophoreitai is divinely inspired, Ph.1.479; hoposoi teletais etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual, Philostr.Her.5.3.
Ppelpizo
I. to buoy up with hope, to cheat with false hopes, Thuc.
II. intr. = elpizo, Eur.But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:25
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain. James 1:26
On the other hand, pure religion as related to what Jesus died to silence which was "creation of spiritual anxiety through religious rituals."
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Jas 1:27
All of the clergy play the shell game: validating their role by making you guess which shell the pea is under. The TRUTH, dear dupe, is that the shell is under NEITHER.
MY brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. James 2:1
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; Ja.2:2
God never changed the ASSEMBLY of the non-governmental people who were DISCIPLES at the synagogue even in the wilderness. The added Lord's Supper is still to show forth or to TEACH the death of Christ. Paul uses a synagogue word for the people who ASSEMBLE as opposed to the church house. Now, we have James using the word:
Sunagoge (g4864) soon-ag-o-gay'; from (the redupl. form of) 4863; an assemblage of persons; spec. a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by anal. a Christian church: - assembly, congregation, synagogue.
There was no praise service in the synagogue and there was none in the early church or ekklesia or synagogue any more than you would bring out the singy-clappy guys and dolls in county court or in a classroom.
-
What is
the Doctrine of Christ according to Christ?
See Al Maxey and the Law of Silence
Read Al Maxey claiming NO authority for the fast. Thus proving that IMPROVISING was not condemned.
Al Maxey using the Synagogue and the law of silence to authorize instrumental music.
What is the Doctrine of Christ according to Christ?
Al also supports Fred Peatross who defines the Emerging Church of Christ quite identical to the methods and motives of all ancient paganism using music and modern witchcraft. These are tidbits of GRACE out of the Grace Centered Movement.
If you get nothing else please grasp that not among the Jews nor in the most vile pagan temples did the musicians enter into the Holy Places. Among the Jews, the Holy Place is a carnal type of the spiritual body of Christ. No Levitical musician could enter into this type of the church of Christ even to clean out the garbage.
The temple musicians in a "religious sense" (grouped with prostitutes in pagan religions) were in the court making a loud mocking noise during the sacrifice and burning of animals. They were part of a "like the nations" ritual permitted when the elders "fired God." Gad was the civil King's SEER or STARGAZER. Since they were abandoned to WORSHIP THE HEAVENLY HOST, the added INSTRUMENTS under the king and commanders of the Army was for CIVIL sacrifices ONLY.
In fulfilment of the prophetic type, it was prophesied in Psalm 41 and fulfilled in the Dead Sea Scroll translation that Judas and the military musicians would attempt to turn Jesus into a coward. Click for some examples.
Since Al probably also believes the heresy that Amos didn't condemn instrumental music but A BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE you may want to grasp that Israel was performing the WORSHIP OF THE STARRY HOST including Saturn (666). This was the "worship" to which God abandoned the Israelites because of MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai. Click Here.
|
The
trumpets of God (as opposed to the
Instruments of David for a like the nation's
temple state) were SIGNAL
INSTRUMENTS. Playing and making a joyful noise was
the WARRIOR'S CHANT
in all national armies.
The "alarm" was to play musical instruments and "make a joyful noise before the Lord." This was not worship but a BATTLE CRY. Therefore, it was not to be used on the "congregation" of God's people.
"This is the word used in most English versions as a rendering of the New Testament's Greek word ekklesia. Ekklesia really means "a calling out", a meeting or a gathering. Ekklesia is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew qahal, which means an assembly or a congregation. Neither ekklesia nor qahal means a building." Therefore, God still OUTLAWS most of what we do as PAGAN WORSHIP when the Ecclesia or Assembly was always for instruction: even the Lord's Supper is to PROCLAIM the death of Jesus. It needs no proving that when instruments are played and the people are "taught" from sentimental or erotic praise songs the DELIBERATE EFFORT IS TO TRIUMPH OVER JESUS OR SILENCE HIM. This LAW was never violated by faithful Jews: the people's congregation was LOCKED OUT of the temple when the loud instruments made a great crashing sound while the Levites encouraged and helped the priest slaughter and burn the TYPE OF LORD JESUS CHRIST but NOT in the holy places. |
See Al Maxey on the authority of Bible silence and the instrument.
Click for the short course refuting Al's CONFIDENT boasting that he knows the Law and it says NOTHING about the synagogue. This table capsules the Spirit of Christ authorizing the synagogue and absolutely outlawying musical instrumenta and "making a joyful noise to the Lord." This was the War Chant: don't make war on God as did Judas and clergy.
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2:19
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20
Synagogue or church is School of the Bible and not a pagan worship center.
We say, "Not very Grace Centered." Wrong grasp of the Bible and therefore wrong conclusion.
We invite any Doctor of the Law to Explain why the Synagogue did not exist as Al Demands to make his conclusions valid that I am insane and you can make music.
We invite the deacon's daughter who exclaimed: "What a DORK!!" to tell me what she read.
We invite Al's elders at Cuba Avenue Church of Christ who "couldn't stop laughting" to point out why the Synagogue did not exist just because "Al told you so."
Read Al Maxey's definition of the non-instrumentalists as sectarians or heretics.
Al Maxey and Instrumental Music neither commanded nor condemned.
Al Maxey: While Jack is preparing his defense of the "law of silence" as a hermeneutical tool for establishing "authority," let me throw a "monkey wrench" into the works. I believe the entire synagogue system, and the participation of our Lord within it, speaks powerfully to this matter. I would ask Jack (and others) to please consider carefully the following thoughts.
It is a fact that the defenders of instrumental music to worship a Spirit God invented the LAW OF SILENCE. Al's intention is to show that since there is no law against music then it is ok. It reads something like this:
God hath not said "thou shalt not play Rock and Roll as worship." Therefore, we are legalistically justified in playing Rock and Roll. This is such a powerful law that we can sow discord and steal the "church houses of widows."
Al wants Jack to justify why Al uses the LAW OF SILENCE and why he sows the discord. This old dodge was invented by Adam.
Now their assertion is reduced to absurdity, if they shall say that the cause of the wound is not the dart, but the shield, which did not prevent the dart from passing through;
and if they blame not the thief, but the man who did not prevent the theft.
what we assert to have taken place in the theft, is not a cause at all;
but that what prevents is involved in the accusation of being a cause.
Al's logic lets him teach that those who have used the Biblical text to TEACH one another for 2,000 years actually SOW DISCORD by resisting the thief stealing their property. John Calvin notes that if the SIN of sowing discord to add instruments is old enough then it expires.
Thereafter, anyone who refuses to endorse and participate with those who have a panic feeling about holding onto their ill gotten freedom and property are guilty of sowing discord. To fall into the trap would be to endorse the evil which has not become less Biblical, divisive and Word-silencing over the years. The church buildings stolen and being stolen as we write are stolen property and it will never cease being stolen property in the hands of those who relay on GRACE to let them keep their stuff.
Al Maxey: There is no question but what the synagogue, and the activities associated with it, were an "innovation" or addition of men.
By-the-way, I'm using this term "innovation" in a neutral sense here -- I'm not suggesting it was either good or bad, merely that it was not "ordained of God" via the Law of Moses or the inspired OT documents.
No, that is not the truth. Al and all preachers need to become Old Testament literate.
We will show that the "synagogue" or assembly of the congregation was commanded, that the common people were to be gathered only for instruction and that God absolutely outlawed "sounding instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" when He was speaking. This was never music but the Israelite 'battle cry' and was not to be used against the people because it would absolutely destroy the purpose for the synagoguing: instruction from God. They used it on Jesus just as prophesied in Psalm 41.
Al Maxey: In other words, the Scriptures are completely "silent" with respect to this "synagogue system."
(Personally, I don't think there is anything at all wrong with the synagogue system, just for the record.)
No, that is not the truth. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic. Therefore, the READING of the word would often require someone OVERSEEING to make sure that the meaning was conveyed. Both ekklesia and synagogue are borrow words from the Greek. Therefore, if we don't see the word SYNAGOGUE too often it is because the Hebrew had many other words to describe an assembly. An assembly is a synagogue, ekklesia, church or under an oak tree where the document was posted by Aaron.
A synagogue is an ekklesia and they both simply mean ASSEMBLY. The word SYNAGOGUE is A GREEK WORD and we do not find it often in the HEBREW text. Make sense? However, in the Greek version the word is EKKLESIA. Jesus said to COME LEARN OF ME. When they assembled or synagogued in Acts 20:7 paul DID NOT preach but DIALOGED. The proper synagogue involved READING the word "as it has been taught" says Paul to the elders--not to the preachers. People prayed their own prayers except the formal READING of a prayer hymn.
The meaning of RESTORATION has T. Campbell defining CHURCH as a school of Christ and WORSHIP as reading and dialoging the WORD. Singing was PSALMS until A. Campbell and others published SONG BOOKS which was about like publishing a self-composed bible.
The word for synagogue in Psalm 74 would NOT be alone if all of the Old Testament was in GREEK.
Mowed (h4150) mo-ade'; ormoed, mo-ade'; or (fem.) mowadah (2 Chron. 8:13), mo-aw-daw'; from 3259; prop. an appointment, i. e. a fixed time or season; spec. a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed)
The silver trumpets were to CALL ASSEMBLY but not for MUSIC or ALARM.
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Num 10:3
To assembly is:
Edah (h5712) ay-daw'; fem. of 5707 in the orig. sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (spec. a concourse, or gen. a family or crowd: - assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm.
The assembly is:
Mowed (h4150) which is translated SYNAGOGUE in Psalm 74.
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, Deut 31:10
Solemnity is Mowed (h4150) or synagogue
When ALL Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Deut 31:11
And throughout the land forever:
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within THY gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: Deut 31:12
GATHER IS: Qahal (h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) together).
This was the GATHERING in the wilderness where the ALARM or playing the trumpets and making a joyful noise was OUTLAWED because the assembly or synagogue was always for INSTRUCTION.
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. Deut 31:13
This DEFINES the meaning of worship and BURNING ANIMALS was never defined as the SUNDAY SERVICE worship while the synagogue was like WEDNESDAY night. The SYNAGOGUE was always in UTTER OPPOSITION to the temple rituals which were LIKE THE NATIONS and not spiritual worship.
When "scholars" claim that the synagogue was invented in Babylon they have reference to the GREAT SYNAGOGUE convened in Babylon as well as to the more organized INSTITUTIONALIZED system of building houses for reading the Word, public prayer, higher education where the scholars could be found at the "building," the function of a bank and as a LAW COURT. By the time of Christ this included compulsory education beginning at about aged 5.
Paul never used the word CHURCH: he used the word ekklesia. When people GATHER or ASSEMBLY it was for GIVING HEED TO THE WORD and individual prayers. Singing UTTERLY FAILED if it did not mean to TEACH the inspired Biblical text. Even the Lord's Supper was to show forth or TEACH the death of Christ.
ANYTHING you add to that diminishes the role of the gathering (synagogue or ekklesia and NEVER church).
Isaiah 58 explains modern CHURCH and why it rarely works. To those DAILY SEEKING to know God's Ways, here was part of the DIRECT COMMAND:
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking THINE OWN words: Isa 58:13
And Jesus would be proud that Al agrees with His endorsement of the teaching or rather reading of the Word but against any collections or prayer or "praise services." Rabbinic law actually made it illegal to do what Al and the preacher boys do each week.
"After each verse an Aramaic rendering was given by an interpreter, who in Palestine was bound NOT to use a written translation and not to allegorize" (The New Shaff-Herzog, Ency., p. 215).
Preaching, therefore was translating and explaining the text as, and when needed, it was being read "as it had been delivered to them." Even a boy student could READ the word which is Pauls unique worship word. However, the OVERSEER was not county boss; he stood over the reader to make sure that he did not make ANY mistake in "teaching the Word as it has been taught." This might have to be translated or discussed if the "students" or disciples which Jesus accepted had a question. That is why Paul said that the women should not ask questions during the reading.
Paul lines up against Al and crew by insisting that the Word made more sure by Jesus is not subject to "private interpretation." That means that it is a violation of a direct command of Scripture to sell yourself to "further expound" that which has been expounded.
John Calvin: But is it not altogether at variance with reason that the ploughing oxen should starve, and the lazy asses be fed? They will say, however, that they serve at the altar. I answer, that the priests under the law deserved maintenance, by ministering at an altar;
but that, as Paul declares, the case under the New Testament is different.
Al would not be happy about Jesus' comments about the professionals clustered around the synagogue trying to collect money from widows.
People always assuredly always worshiped "in spirit" but never with music.
One "advanced degreer" when asked about a course in Isaiah responded: "No, they didn't offer that when I went through." And I will bet that those who think that the Bible is silent have never read Amos or Job or Isaiah or Ezekiel, or about the king/qeen of Tyre and the king/queen of Babylon and the end-time king/queen Babylon Towers of Babylon where we first see the musical worship teams.
