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Olan Hicks Instrumental Music in Worship
Olan Hicks The Law of Silence
Olan Hicks Ray Downen The Law of Silence
Olan Hicks: Non-Instrumentalists and Pharisees

David Young Minister North Boulevard Church of Christ.
\g2323. THERAPEUO, ther-ap-yoo´-o; from the same as 2324; to wait upon menially, i.e. (figuratively) to adore (God), or (specially) to relieve (of disease): — cure, heal, worship.

-therap-ōn  henchman, attendant [1] “Mousaōn [2] therapontes”

[1]   Mousa music, song [3 below]  stu^ger-os , Mousa “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas”
        II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugera” A.Eu.308   
        moisan pherein      LADED BURDEN
       adokim-os , disreputable, discredited, reprobate,
      “kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas 
   
S.Tr.643       
        moisan pherein”\
        “adein adokimon m.” Plat. Laws 775b

[2]  therapontes” [preacher of]
kērux generally, public messenger, envoy,
“k., Dios  aggeloi ēde kai andrōn” 1.334; theōn k., of [2]
        Zēus”,[preacher of] ploutou, Semitic Baalim, [preacher of]. Beelbōsōros, .[preacher of] Ōromasdēs, [preacher of] Dios astēr the planet Jupiter [preacher of]  Ploutōn A.Pluto, god of the nether world,rom ploutos) the wealth-giver, a name of Hades, Eur. Alc. 360, Soph. Ich. 273

Eur. Alc. 360 If I had the voice and music of Orpheus so that I could charm Demeter's daughter or her husband with song and fetch you from Hades, [360] I would have gone down to the Underworld, and neither Pluto's hound nor Charon the ferryman of souls standing at the oar would have kept me from bringing you back to the light alive.

Soph. Ich. 273 Zeus came secretly to Atlas's house ... to the deep-girdled goddess ¹ ... and in a cave begot a single son [Hermes, Kairos]He has a hidden machine that makes the sound you're asking about, that so surprised you. It's a box full of pleasure that he made in just one day from a dead animal [A Turtle] he found, and he's down there shaking it.

[preacher as] “kērukōn, hoi dēmioergoi

a skilled workman, handicraftsman,
    peithous dēmiourgos hē rhētorikē
    from presbeis, as being messengers between nations at war
    used interchangeably with apostolos,
[preacher of]    2. crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc.

THE PARASITES IN THE MARKETPLACE WAITING FOR THE ATHENIAN ECCLESIA.  The Kerux or PREACHER was just to keep order
THE Herald, when summonig a meeting of the Council, was quite as much a signal for the citizens to hurry from the Agora, each in terror of arrest, as it was for the Council to proceed to the Council-chamber.³

    Ar.Ach.42  They are gossiping in the marketplace, slipping hither and thither to avoid the vermilioned rope.⁹ The Prytanes¹⁰ even do not come; they will be late, but when they come they will push and fight each other for a seat in the front row. which never told me to ‘buy fuel, vinegar or oil’; there the word ‘buy,’ which cuts me in two, was unknown; I harvested everything at will. Therefore I have come to the assembly fully prepared to bawl, interrupt and abuse the speakers, if they talk of anything but peace,
        9 Several means were used to force citizens to attend the assemblies; the shops were closed; circulation was only permitted in those streets which led to the Pnyx; finally, [from PSALLO] a rope covered with vermilion was drawn round those who dallied in the Agora (the market-place), and the late-comers, ear- marked by the imprint of the rope, were fined.
        The assemblies of the people; they were FIFTY in number.
       
[Minister of]    mustēs , ou, ho, (mueō) A.one initiated
        “ta mustōn orgia”[WRATH] (Prob. cogn. with erdō, rhezō, cf. ergon, orgeōn.）
        orgeōnII. of men, like sphrigaō, swell with lust, wax wanton, be rampant
        to be in heat, desire sexual intercourse

THE SHELL GAME: Ignorant or evil?  Conservatives pretend that the twin text is a LAW of singing and it does not matter who writes the "that which is NOT written for our learning."

Progressives (not liberal) pretend that the Twin Texts are the only New Testament teaching about "music", that the Law of Moses commanded instruments (a lie) and Jesus didn't change the LAW.

Both SHELLS depend on legalism since talent, learning, practicing, rehearsing, performing and getting judged"by the strict laws of rhetoric, music or acting.

Both SPIRITUS and NOMOS are words which point directly to Abaddon or Apollon as the Jew's "worship of the tarry host" and the end time king of the locusts or MUSES who separate those having different marks. The BEAST is the word Therion meaning "a new style of music or satyric drama." Satyric is the Pan or Cappella or the effeminate-musical form of rhetoric, singing, acting, dancing and engaging in real or virtual sexual activity. That is the Purpose Driving the Wimber Vineyard lady who landed with the New Style of Praise Song books.

Paul said that those who meddle with the Word (Logos, Regulative principle) God sends strong delusions that they believe their own lie. Lying Wonders are performed by them as religious performances of rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, acting, dancing and worse. In 2 Corinthians 3 Paul said that they cannot HEAR when the Word is READ in the synagogue (one-piece pattern) nor can the READ BLACK text on BROWN paper. 

The ACTIVE part is to SPEAK to YOURSELVES.  That is obviously AUDIBLE and the commanded resource is "that which is written for our learning" (Romans 15)

Eph. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves 

la^l-eō , A. talk to one,
b. generally, talk, speak, opp. poiēsis siōpōsa  flutes make SOUNDS as do trees or harps
3. in later writers, = legō, speak, NOT: II. chatter, opp. articulate speech, as of locusts, chirp, Theoc.5.34;

        legō   1.to say, speak, explain more fully, to recite what is written, labe to biblion kai lege 

-lexis , eōs, h(, (legō B) A. speech, OPPOSITE. ōdē, Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth,

-ōdē , hē, contr. for aoidē,  OPPOSITE lexis,
Lyric poetry: “en tais ōdais kai melesin” Musical melody is MELOS and never PSALLO, various songs associated with particular employments or conditions, 2. = epōdos, MAGIC song, spell, Longus 2.7.

YOURSELVES not professionals, opinions of others such as orators. No one can speak for Joe but Joe.

heautou  of himself, herself, itself, itself by itself, absolutely allēlois, one another, they surpassed themselves
ipse  one another, of themselves,
        Opposite Adversarius mercantile language, Standing opposite or opposed to one, opinio oratori

in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,  [3 of the four types in the BOOK of Psalms]

OBVIOUSLY THE ANTITHESIS MEANS SILENT:

singing and making melody
        \ IN your heart to the Lord;

In is Ho or place or EIS  that spirit of thine,  there, on that spot, here, NO ONE can hear you.

In 1 Corinthians 14 if you can't speak articulately then Paul commands that you be silent. Lifeless Instruments cannot articulate. Paul called them Lifeless Instruments or Carnal weapons.  The assembly was for speaking the Word of God. Unknown tongues are equated to musical instruments which do not edify or TEACH.

1Cor. 14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue,
        let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course;
        and let one interpret.
1Cor. 14:28 But if there be no interpreter,
        let him keep silence in the church;
        and let him speak to himself, and to God.

David wanted to AWAKEN his lyre so that he could awaken the DAWN. Christ says:

Hab. 2:19 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. 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple:
        let all the earth keep silence before him.

Paul said that men should pray for PEACE and QUIETNESS.
The Women and men were to be SILENT.
So that "all might be saved or safe and come to a knowledge of the truth."

SPEAK to your wife about the credit card
But, mouth your complaints silently IN THE SHOWER.

THE PLACE
Kardi-a   as the seat of feeling and passion, as rage or anger, full of heart, what do you think are his feelings?
mind, “hōs anoon  Acts 5:4 How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart?  

In the Latin:

Aeidō , etc.: hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, hoot as owls, Arat.1000; croak as frogs, hoi tettiges [locusts]
of other sounds, twang, of the bow-string, Od.21.411; whistle, of the wind through a tree, Mosch.Fr.1.8; ring, of a stone when struck,
Theoc.7.26:—prov., prin nenikēkenai adein 'to crow too soon',
also, VIE with one in singing, Theoc.8.6; a. pros aulon ē luran sing TO the flute and lyre [match sounds]
“ta lekhthenta kai asenta” Pl.Ly.205e;
asma kalōs asthen, OPPOSITE p. logos kalōs rhētheis,

HERE IS THE MARK WHEN THE TIME CRONOS OR KAIROS HAS COME
Hom. Od. 21 [410] And he held it in his right hand, and tried the string, which sang sweetly beneath his touch, like to a swallow in tone.
        But upon the wooers came great grief, and the faces of them changed color,
        and Zeus thundered loud, shewing forth his signs [sēmata].... while yet there is light, and thereafter must yet other
        sport be made [430] with song and with the lyre; for these things are the accompaniments of a feast.”
        molpē kai phormiggi: ta gar t' anathēmata daitos

anathēma   A.that which is set up: hence, like agalma, votive offering set up in a temple, Hdt.1.14,92, S.Ant.286, etc.; “a. ek leitourgiōn” Lys.26.4
2. agalma, delight, ornament, “molpē t' orkhēstus te: ta gar t' anathēmata daitos” Od.1.152, cf. 21.430
3. of a slave in a temple, a. poleōs devoted to this service by the city, E.Ion310.—Cf. anathema.

1Cor. 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. [aproaching judgment]
Gal. 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Mark of being abandoned:
A Church of Christ by definition can have no LITURGICAL ACTIONS
Leitourg-eō
  2. perform religious service, minister, “epi tōn hierōn” D.H.2.22; “tō Kuriō” Act.Ap.13.2, etc. (Written lit- in Rev.Et.Anc.32.5 (Athens, i B.C.), etc., cf. leitourgion, leitourgos.）

Anathema and Musical Worship
Anathema is anything so sacrificed or devoted to the Lord and could not be redeemed (Num. 18:14; Lev. 27:28, 29); and hence the idea of exterminating was connected with the word. The Hebrew verb (haram) is frequently used of the extermination of idolatrous nations

Hom. Od. 22.[5] “Lo, now at last is this decisive contest ended; and now as for another MARK, which till now no man has ever smitten, I will know if haply I may strike it, and Apollo [Abaddon, Apollyon] grant me glory.” He spoke, and aimed a bitter arrow at Antinous. Now he was on the point of raising to his lips a fair goblet, [10] a two-eared cup of gold, and was even now handling it, that he might drink of the wine, and death was not in his thoughts. For who among men that sat at meat could think that one man among many, how strong soever he were, would bring upon himself evil death and black fate?

The Phrase:  asma , atos, to, (adō) A. song, esp. lyric ode, hymn,

Plat. Lysis 205e Most certainly, I replied, it is you to whom these songs refer. For if you prevail on your favorite, and he is such as you describe, all that you have spoken and sung will be so much glory to you, and a veritable eulogy upon your triumph in having secured such a favorite as that:  whereas if he eludes your grasp, the higher the terms of your eulogy of your favorite, the greater will seem to be the charms and virtues you have lost, and you will be ridiculed accordingly. Hence anyone who deals wisely in love-matters,

paid-ikos  p. khoros the chorus of boys, f or for a beloved youth, humnoi p. love-songs [why we SPEAK the few Biblical hymns], B.Fr.3.12; paid-ikos  logos a love-tale, darling, favourite, minion, darling pupil, rarely of a girl,

Plat. Sym. 178e So that if we could somewise contrive to have a city or an army composed of lovers and their favorites [Mark of COHORT],¹  they could not be better citizens of their country than by thus refraining from all that is base
        1 There was such a “sacred band” (hieros lokhos) at Thebes, which distinguished itself

tous erastas. The plural is due to the fact that it was usual for a number of erastai to pay court to the same paidika (cp. Charm. 154 A).

kalos , of parts of the body, fair, shapely, added to a name in token of love or admiration,

OPPOSITE p. logos kalōs rhētheis,

logos Opposite to personal comments, jokes, singing, playing instruments. singing, dancing or making love

rhētheis, ero   I. I will say or speak, Latin verbum English Word, speak of, II. I will tell, proclaim

If you say that Paul commanded that you SING that which is written by praise-boy-girls then you call Paul and Jesus the Spirit liars.
If Jesus or Paul wanted to hint at any kind of musical performance in the assembly, they are not stupid as people assume: they know that psallo means to pluck or smite with your fingers and never with a plectrum.  You must use two words to command smite a harp. Or if you are not stupid you use compound words used any time an instrument is included.

Epi-psallō , A. play the lyre, S.Fr.60, Poll.4.58（Pass.); “melesi kai rhuthmois” 

                SING, “tous humnous” LXX 2 Ma.1.30:—30 - Then the priests sang the hymns.

Katapsallō ,  A. play stringed instruments to, [“sumposion kataulein kai k.” Pass., have music played to one, enjoy music, ib.785e; of places, resound with music, Id.Ant.56. 2. Pass., to be buried to the sound of music, Procop.Pers.2.23.

3. metaph., katapsalletai . . ho dēmiourgos is drummed out, Porph.

apo-psallō ,

A.pluck off, “trikhas” Hsch.; a. pagēn spring a trap that is set, Lyc.407; twang a string, Id.915; hēglōtta a. tēn akran Atthida rings out the purest Attic, metaph. from the lyre, Philostr.VS 2.1.7.

apo-psalma , atos

A.“, to” the part of the string which the musician plucks, Ptol.Harm.1.8(pl.),al., Porph.in Harm.295.

apopsauō , prob.

A.   mousomania.

mouso-ma^nia , hē,

A.devotion to the Muses, Plu.2.706c

WHY WAS GOD SO UTTERLY STUPID THAT THE SOWERS OF DISCORD HAVE TO FILL IN THE "SILENCES"?

F. L. Lemley Legalism and Traditionalism: Laws followed in Preaching, singing, playing instruments, acting for a dole for which Christ gave no Role. Hypocrites (Ezekiel 33) are speakers for hire, singers, instrument players and paying audience.  Allowing Tradition to Trump Truth

1. If you say that not using instruments in the School of the Word from the wilderness onward is just an evil, sectarian, patternist TRADITION imposed by churches of Chrit.
2. And the Bible rejects any vocal or instrumental excitement in the synagogue--ekklesia. And Al Maxey became instrumental sectarian as late as 1878.
3. Then the Spirit OF Christ in Jeremiah 23 says that you despise the Word and people and that word is BLASPHEMY against the Holy Spirit OF Christ.  Further, missed prepositions 101aa
4. Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. In Ezekiel 33 the Spirit OF Christ named speakers for hire (hirelings), singers and instrument players. His MARK is that any musical performance proves that no one intends to speak that which is written nor to obey anything they heat.
5. Jesus said that God HIDES from the wise or sophists: self-speaking for hire (a hireling), singers and instrument players.
6. Contrary to "unity in diversity" meaning WE take YOUR property, Paul said that the cunning craftsmen or sophists (speakers, singers, instrument player, actor merchants" are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
1. Recorded history proves that rhetoricians, singers, instrument players or actors learn LAWS required to deceive people.
   

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.." Click for more.

"Philodemos considered it paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration of the gods while musicians were paid for performing this so-called veneration. Again, Philodemus held as self-deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit. (Paul called it mad or insane) He found it significant that, on the whole, only women and effeminate men fell into this folly."

HOW TO AMBUSH PEOPLE.

And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set AMBUSHMENTS against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. 2 Chron 20: 22

Ranah (h7439) raw-naw'; a prim. root; to whiz: - rattle.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. Job 39:22

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. Job 39:23

[The Rule of the Trumpets: the trumpets] of alarm for all their service for the [ . . . ] for their commissioned men, 17[by tens of thousands and thousands and hundreds and fifties] and tens. Upon the t[rumpets . . . ]

[ . . . ] )8[ . . . ] 19[ . . . which ] 20 [,, . they shall write . . . the trumpets of Col. 3 the battle formations, and the trumpets for assembling them when the gates of the war are opened so that the infantry might advance, the trumpets for the signal of the slain, the trumpets of 2 the ambush, the trumpets of pursuit when the enemy is defeated, and the trumpets of reassembly when the battle returns.

2 Chron 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

"The priests shall blow the trumpets of massacre, and the Levites and all the blowers of the ram's horn shall sound a battle alarm,

and the foot soldiers shall stretch out their hands against the host...
and at the sound of the alarm they shall begin to bring down the slain.
All the people shall cease their clamor,
........... but the priests shall continue to blow the trumpets of massacre."  - War Scroll

"And on the banner of the ten they shall write, "Songs of joy for God on the ten-stringed harp," 
and the name of the chief of the ten and the names of the nine men in his command."

The Jacob-Cursed and God-abandoned Levites were commanded to STAND GUARD during the horrors of the sacrifice of innocent lambs: they would execute an Al Maxey who stumbled close to the now-Babylonish holy places or houses.

As noise makers called PARASITES who lived off stolen tithes and offerings they made a loud noise to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter.

The Heretic or Sectarian separated the lambs and lifted them up to cut their throats.

The New Covenant is made with the Laity of Israel and Judah who are the opposite of Priests and Levites.

PROPHETIC TYPE OF MUSICAL MOCKING JESUS FOR THE FIRST ADVENT.

Jer 11:18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it,
        and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.
Jer 11:19 But I was  like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaugher;
        and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
        saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof,
        and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
        that his name may be no more remembered.

mansŭesco ,
I. Act., to tame, to make tame B. Trop., to render mild, gentle, or peaceable: gentes mild, soft, gentle, quiet
“nam me jam ab orationibus dijungo fere, referoque ad mansuetiores Musas,” Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 23: “ira,” Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 23.—

Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a  muse, one of the goddesses of poetry, music,
“Musarum delubra,” Cic. Arch. 11, 27: “hic Musarum parens domusque Pieria, Mela, 2, 3, 2: crassiore Musā,
A. A song, a poem: “musa procax,” Hor. C. 2, 1, 37

Dumb means the inability to MEDITATE on what is going on. 
cōgĭto The command is to SPEAK the Word and MEDITATE in the heart: not to make music.
Cogitation in a rational sense can be stopped by (d). With de: “cogitavit etiam de Homeri carminibus abolendis,”

In Ephesians 4 Paul insists that if you have APT elders their Job-One is to cast out the cunning craftsmen or sophists. Sophists are speakers beyond the Logos or Regulative Principle, singers, instrument players, actors or dancers. Paul wants them EXCISED because by the MARKS they are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

Jesus said that God HIDES from the Wise or Sophists: speaking personal opinions, singers, instrument players, actors or any STAFF known in all religions as PARASITES.

THE PROPHETIC TYPE MADE MORE CERTAIN.

Mark 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
        and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests,
        and unto the scribes [hypocrites: speakers, singers, instrument players];
        and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
Mark 10:34 And they shall mock him,
        and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him:
        and the third day he shall rise again

Latin Illudo  as a female: Applied as a term of reproach, effeminate men, eloquence, rhētor but with idea of contempt, caneret,”
A. Of men: “si absurde canat, of the crooked race, a reed pipe, a guitar, crowing of a hen tibiae, tubae,  Gallus , i, m., = Gallos Strab., A. Galli , the priests of Cybele, on account of their emasculated condition) Gallic: “turma,” the troop of the priests of Isis, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 18.  “resupinati cessantia tympana Galli,”

Gallos , ho, A. priest of Cybele, gallazō , A. practise cult of Cybele, Galli. Eunuch priests of Cybele or the great mother: begun under the reign of Erichthonius, king of Attica, B.C. 1506;

Galli A form gallantes, as if from gallare, "to rave like a priest of Cybelé," is cited from Varro (ap. Non. p. 119Non., 5). In their wild, enthusiastic, and boisterous rites the Galli recalled the legends of the Corybantes (q.v.). According to an ancient custom, they were always castrated (spadones, semimares, semiviri, nec viri nec feminae), and it would seem that, impelled by religious enthusiasm, they performed this operation on themselves... Other names, however, are of distinctly Semitic affinities; Rhea perhaps=the Babylonian Ri (Mulita or Mylitta), and Nana more certainly=the Babylonian Nana, modern Syrian Nani.  Nana motherof Attis

Tac. Ann. 14.52 Of Nero:  They further alleged against him that he claimed for himself alone the honours of eloquence, and composed poetry more assiduously, as soon as a passion for it had seized on Nero. "Openly inimical to the prince's amusements, he disparaged his ability in driving horses, and ridiculed his voice whenever he sang

Paizo, 4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16. 5. play amorously, “pros allēlous” X.Smp.9.2

Prospaizō, prospaizousa tois ōmois komē playing over, II. c. acc., theous p. sing to the gods, sing in their praise or honour, Pl.Epin.980b: c. dupl. acc., humnon prosepaisamen . . ton . . Erōta sang a hymn in praise of Eros, Id.Phdr.265c. 2. banter , “tous rhētoras” Id.Mx.235c, cf. Euthd.285a; p. ton kuna, ton arkton, , humnon pr. ton 

WORSHIP ANDROGYNY THE PAGAN SEXUAL IDEAL

THE PROPHETIC TYPE FOR THE SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS

PAUL MARKED ANY RHETORIC, SINGING, PLAYING, ACTING, DANCING AND BEYOND!

Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
        why do I yet suffer persecution?
        then is the offence of the cross ceased.

Galatians 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

A. Based on the words Paul uses pointed to the emasculated priests of the mother goddess, Paul intends to CUT OFF the musical performers in the same way the priests were made eunuchs:

First:
Apo-koptō , a.ta gennētika, of eunuchs, Ph.1.89: abs., “apokekommenos” eunuch, LXXDe.23.1, cf.Luc.Eun.8:—Med., make oneself a eunuch, Ep.Gal.5.12, cf. Arr.Epict.2.20.19.

Second:
3. esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini hē phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85.

Ton-os , o(, (teinō) 2. of sounds, raising of the voice, Aeschin.3.209,210, D.18.280, Phld.Lib.p.19 O., etc.: hence, a. pitch of the voice, Pl.R. 617b, Arist.Phgn.807a17, etc.; including volume, “tonoi phōnēs: oxu, baru, mikron, mega” X.Cyn.6.20; of a musical instrument, Plu.2.827b, etc.; diatonic scale,
3. esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini hē phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85. 

phōn-ē ,  4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595; “suriggōn” (pipe) E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “aulōn”(flute) Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “hē ph. tēs salpiggos” (harp) LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7; “hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.

Plat. Rep. 397a [397a] “the other kind speaker, the more debased he is the less will he shrink from imitating anything and everything. He will think nothing unworthy of himself, so that he will attempt, seriously and in the presence of many, to imitate all things, including those we just now mentioned—claps of thunder, and the noise of wind and hail and axles and pulleys, and the notes of trumpets and flutes and pan-pipes, and the sounds of all instruments, and the cries of dogs, sheep, and birds; and so his style will depend wholly on imitation

Cut off the Organs of sound:

Organon , to/, (ergon, erdō) A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing,
“polemika (war) hopla te kai organa” Pl.R.374d, cf. Lg. 956a
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous,Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2.

Ergon , 1. in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, “polemēia e.” Il.2.338, al., Od.12.116 ; “ergon makhēs” Il.6.522 of Marsyas,

B. John Chrysostom understood Paul's message.
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 .

F.L.Lemley also missed Bible 101a since there is no command, example or remote inference of any congregational singing with or without instruments in the entire Bible.  Singing as an ACT was imposed from Syria c. ad 373 after Constantine allowed preachers to be paid for the first time in recorded history.  This was chanting by syllables the human-compositions.  This split the east from the western churches.

There is no command, example or remote inference of congregational singing (unison) without instruments until John Calvin permitted some psalms only to be rewritten and set to a simple melody: melody is not harmony.

The Bible and recorded history uses musical instruments which made a sound which spooked the superstitious then and now as the MARK of people called hypocrites of men who had no intention of obeying the wilderness onward command to PREACH the Word (only) by READING the Word on the REST days with no mediating clergy identified in all religions as parasites.  Any audience you can sell a TICKET for attendance are also hypocrites because they have no intention of obeying the command to elders to "teach that which has been taught."

No one tried to justify sowing discord by imposing the organ (only, we promise) until the Disciples in the year 1878 which sectarianized the Disciples-Christians but NOT Churches of Christ.  Jesus used the SOP to identify Judas as the musical deceiver (Psalm 41) or son of perdition.  SOP and PSALLO have the same root meaning and in 1878 it was the MARK prophesied in Revelation 17f of the "lusted after fruits" as craftsmen, singers and instrument players John called SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world. Instruments and Burning are always connected and the Sorcerers and Dogs will be (have been) CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE and punished for ever and ever.

The Spirit of Christ identified Lucifer (Zoe and Eve as practiced) as the singing and harp playing prostitute who had been cast as profane (Chalal, Halal) into the garden of Eden.  In Isaiah 30 Christ alerts us to the fact that the MARKS of God driving His enemies into "hell" will be the same wind, string and percussion instruments.

1. We may not know how long is for ever and ever.
2. We may not know the exact meaning of HELL or the Lake of Fire.
3. We can be dogmatically certain that the CAST people are those who HAD forever tried to silence the voice of God in the prophets and apostles through Christ.
4. Read any recent article or listen to any sermon and you will discover that mighty mouths for hire make certain that Jesus doesn't get a word in edgewise nor that any cultified member is liberated to enjoy the REST from the Scribes  and Pharisees, hypocrites nor believe that "your money was your own." The "lord" cannot use it.
   

The Confessed Attack of Musical Agents Identical to the c. ad 2000 Prophecy Fulfilled

The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit:         with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it,         and the branches of it are broken. Jer 11:16 Dwaine E. Dunning the NACC: There are at least three ways to kill a tree. You can poison it, or burn it. It might not survive if all the limbs were lopped off. But men usually choose to kill a tree by cutting down its trunk. We take an axe or saw to it not far above the roots and "fell" that tree. Likewise a system of doctrine may be destroyed in various ways. It might be poisoned (or sweetened in this case) by injecting a different spirit into those who hold the doctrine. Or its various contentions may be individually or specifically refuted, like lopping off a tree's branches one by one. vox , “theatrum ita resonans, ululantique voce canere, [halal] I.a voice, sound, tone, cry, call.  “deripere lunam vocibus,” with charms, incantations, siderā excantata [utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play.] voce Thessalā,” incantation Music is sorcery or witchcraft always connected to BURNING ignis Fire-starter or song-starter ore dabat pleno carmina vera dei For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee,         for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah,         which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger         in offering incense unto Baal. Jer 11:17 Jer 11:18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:         then thou showedst me their doings. Jer 11:19 But I was  like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaugher; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. mansŭesco ,  I. Act., to tame, to make tame B. Trop., to render mild, gentle, or peaceable: gentes mild, soft, gentle, quiet   “nam me jam ab orationibus dijungo fere, referoque ad mansuetiores Musas,” Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 23: “ira,” Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 23.— Mūsa , ae, f., = Mousa, I.a  muse, one of the goddesses [male or female] of poetry, music, “Musarum delubra,” Cic. Arch. 11, 27: “hic Musarum parens domusque Pieria, Mela, 2, 3, 2: crassiore Musā, A. A song, a poem: “musa procax,” Hor. C. 2, 1, 37 bold, locutio,” Cat. 61, 126: “sermo shameless, impudent, “mulier meretrix et procax Dumb means the inability to MEDITATE on what is going on.  cōgĭto The command is to SPEAK the Word and MEDITATE in the heart: not to make music. Cogitation in a rational sense can be stopped by (d). With de: “cogitavit etiam de Homeri carminibus abolendis, = I.to retard or to check the growth of; hence, in a more extended sense, to destroy, efface, abolish = Homeri carmin Jer 11:20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously,         that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:         for unto thee have I revealed my cause. Jer 11:21 Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying,         Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand: Jer 11:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,         Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword;         their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: Jer 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them:        for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1175b.1 But things that are akin to things of different kinds must themselves differ in kind.         [3] A still clearer proof may be drawn         from the hindrance that activities         receive from the pleasure derived from other activities. For instance, persons fond of the flute cannot give their attention to a philosophical discussion [The LOGOS or Regulative Principle]         when they overhear someone playing the flute,         because they enjoy music more than the activity in which they are engaged;                 therefore the pleasure afforded by the music of the flute                 impairs the activity of study. [4] The same thing occurs in other cases when a man tries to do two things at once; the pleasanter activity drives out the other, the more so if it is much more pleasant,          until the other activity ceases altogether. Hence, when we enjoy something very much, we can hardly do anything else; and when we find a thing only mildly agreeable, we turn to some other occupation; for instance, people who eat sweets at the theater do so especially when the acting is bad. [ 5] And since our activities [of the flute] are sharpened, prolonged and improved by their own pleasure, and impaired by the pleasures of other activities, it is clear that pleasures differ widely from each other. In fact alien pleasures have almost the same effect on the activities as their own pains; since,         when an activity causes pain, this pain destroys it,          for instance, if a person finds writing or doing sums unpleasant and irksome;         for he stops writing or doing sums, because the activity is painful.

IF you have an APT elder their first job is to eject the cunning craftsmen or sophists: they are speakers for hire, singers, instrument players or actors. Jesus said that God HIDES from them. School of the Word is not possible because THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

To claim that NOT beginning to use instruments which the faithful have NEVER USED since the Church in the wilderness is LEGALISM is one of those sins for which God casts them alive into the lake of fire.  Legalism is ALWAYS defined as the RULES and patterns for learning, practicing, performing and getting applauded for speaking, singing, playing instruments, acting or dancing (included in the music word).

Surprise! Ephesians 2 - 4 comes before Ephesians 5 

We are saved by Grace through faith: saved or SAFE from WHAT?

Eph 2:1 AND you hath he quickened [Baptism], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
        [not unconsious]
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past YE walked  [not unconsious]
 ....according to the course of this world,
.....according to the prince of the power of the air, 
.....the SPIRIT that now WORKETH in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past  
        in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the DESIRES of the flesh and of the mind;
        and were by nature the children [produced by] of wrath [ORGY], even as others.

Orge I. natural impulse or propension: one's temper, temperament, disposition, orgê , hê, II. passion, anger, wrath, 3. Panos orgai panic fears (i. e. terrors sent by Pan), Eur.:--but, orgê tinos anger against a person or at a thing, Soph.; hierôn orgas wrath at or because of the rites, Aesch.

Orgi-a , iôn, ta, secret rites, secret worship, practised by the initiated, orgia Mousôn with erdô, rhezô, cf. ergon, orgeôn all WORK words. for Demeter, theCabeiri and Demeter, Orp;heus, Dionysus.

ORGIAZO  To celebrate orgia, to worship demons as at Mount Sinai.

Erôt-ikos  A.of or caused by love, orgê

[190] hymn the unending gifts the gods enjoy and the sufferings of men,  all that they endure at the hands of the deathless gods, and how they live witless and helpless and cannot find healing for death or defence against old age.  

See Strabo 10.3.7
"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'

Ephesians 2:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places
        might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Always SILENCED so you can SPEAK that which is written for our LEARNING

Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, 
        tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
        by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness,
                    [sophists: speakers, singers, instrument players]
        whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

1Cor. 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
        seemeth to be wise [sophos] in this world,
        let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Cor. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
        For it is written,
        He taketh the wise  sophia
        in their own craftiness. pa^nourg-ia

Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

1Cor. 3:20 And again,
        The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, sophōn
        that they are vain. matai-os 

-Sophia A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasēs eu eidē s. Il.15.412; of the Telchines, Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 1d; of Daedalus and Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33, cf. 1.4.2; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117

God HIDES from the wise or sophists: self-speakers, singers and instrument players and reveals Himself only to "babes" who can understand that you cannot SPEAK and SING at the same time: this would intentionally silence Jesus as the ONLY Teacher when APT elders "teach that which has been taught."

AS A MARK OF A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST:

Ephesians 5:19 SPEAKING to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing AND making melody
               \ IN your heart
                                    \ to the Lord;

IN and TO are prepositions: when I sing IN MY HEART you cannot hear it because WE are TEACHING and OWNING the Word of God
The heart, spirit, mind is a PLACE: both ODE and PSALLO are IN the mind as a PLACE: you cannot hear it.

The command is to SPEAK
-lexis , eōs, h(, (legō B) A. speech, OPPOSITE. ōdē, Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth,

God is not stupid as the musical discorders think.  If He or simple simon wanted to INCLUDE a harp then both knew that you need a compound word or NAME the harp.

Psalmōd-ia , A. singing to the harp,  
Epi-psallō , A. play the lyre, S.Fr.60, Poll.4.58（Pass.); “melesi kai rhuthmois” Plu.2.713b ; sing, “tous humnous” LXX 2 Ma.1.30:—Pass., Ph.1.626.
psal-tikos , ē, on, A. of or for harp playing, ps. organon a stringed instrument, Ath.14.634f (of the magadis）; andra psaltikēn agathon a good harpist, Ael. ap. Ar.Byz.Epit.84.8.
psaltōd-eō , A. sing to the harp, LXX 2 Ch.5.13.

PATTERN:
Silence the rhetoricians, singers and instrument players because THEY are lying in wait to DECEIVE.
Next, don't be IGNORANT but understand the WILL OF THE LORD.  He commanded that we teach and observe what HE commanded to be taught.
Next don't get filled with WINE as in the SOPHISTS
But, be filled with the Spirit which is the WORD of Christ (John 6:63)

Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be ye not UNWISE, but understanding what the WILL of the Lord is. 
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 

-kat-auleô , A. charm by flute-playing, metaphor I will flute to you on a ghastly flute, E.HF871 (troch.):--Pass., of persons, methuôn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains of the flute, Pl.R.561c; k. pros chelônidos psophon to be played to on the flute with lyre accompaniment,
II.  katauloumenon subdued by a flute accompaniment, to be piped down, ridiculed, gelômenoi  
2.  make a place sound with flute-playing, resound with flute-playing, nêsos katêuleito Plu.Ant.56

The WILL of the LORD is "that which is written for our learning" in Romans 15.

Colossians 3:16 Let the WORD [logos] of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
        teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
        singing with grace
                            \ in your hearts to the Lord. 
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
        do all in the name of the Lord [Kurios] Jesus,
        giving thanks to God [Theos] and the Father by him.

logos God's Regulative Principle or Creative principle is done by SPEAKING logos
LOGOS is the opposite of rhetoric, singing, playing or acting which are learned, practiced, performed and judged by LEGALISTIC principles.

We repeat: The command is to SPEAK
-lexis , eōs, h(, (legō B) A. speech, OPPOSITE. ōdē, Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth,

Please note that those who live off the widow's purse and sow discord make a MAJOR INDUSTRY over Ephesians 5: Paul COMMANDED SPEAK but they SEE the command to SING that which is NOT written.  Jesus flashed the mark of the SOP to signal the end of the Devil's gain. PSALLO has the same root meaning and it was FLASHED to signal the end time assault.

What God HIDES (from the wise or sophists: speakers, singers, instrument players) is that Ephesians 4 comes before Ephesians 5 and IF you have an APT elder the will be MARKED by ejecting the cunning craftsmen or sophists.  Sophists are speakers, singers, instrument players or actors. Paul conveyed the ABSOLUTE CENI to mark APT elders because Paul says that these hypocritic arts and crafts are men LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.

Edward Fudge NOT A Final Word about Hell

1. Al Maxey and Edward Fudge call the Clear statements about Hell lies only they have discovered.
2. Hell or the Lake of Fire is ALWAYS for those who have LIED about Instrumental Music.
3. All recorded history including Scripture says that SATAN brought religious instruments to silence the Word.
4. The Devil and his "angels of blight" and as many as they can recruit are the subjects.
   

1. We may not know the exact meaning of HELL: some evidence suggests that it may be the burning of unsatisfied passion and being forced to live with those who HAD deceived the whole world since ages after ages agrees with several destructions of the "world" and REcreation.
   
2. It may be true that being tormented for ever and ever might be just foolish writers and "traditionalists" before NOW.
3. However, we can be dogmatically certain that those who are said to be driven into hell are done so with the sounds of wind, string and percussion instruments (Christ in Isaiah 30) or craftsmen (staff-parasites), singers and instrument players Jesus calls SORCERERS (Revelation) who will be cast ALIVE into the Lake of Fire shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. . (Revelation 20:10-14)
4. The BEAST or Therion is defined as "A New Style of Music or Satyric-Cappella Drama by despicable people called "dogs" or "concision"  These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
5. Topheth for the physical destruction outside of Jerusalem was for those CAST DEAD into burning garbage-not brimstone or sulfur.

LEGALISM INVOLVED THE JACOB-CURSED AND GOD-ABANDONED LEVITES

Because of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai God turned the Civil-Military-Clergy complex over to worship the starry host.  They performed work or hard bondage in the belief that their cursed "mega church" could earn something from God Who owned all of the cattle on a thousand hills.

THOSE WHO LOOK FOR GREATER REWARD BY SOWING DISCORD AMONG THE WISE FROM WHOM GOD HIDES.

If you claim that NOT using musical instruments when we meet with Jesus to REST is based on two verses by Paul then you fall under the claim that God sends strong delusions to those who are not OF TRUTH or OF FAITH: that means that they are OF the World and Jesus doesn't even pray for them. The PROOF of being strongly deluded is that you destroy the REST Jesus died to give US with "lying wonders" which includes rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, acting and DANCING which is a defacto part of MUSIC.

You cannot have read Acts 7 and asked Stephen to define the clear words using BLACK text on BROWN paper.  The Jacob-Cursed and God-Abandoned Levites performed as "soothsayer-sorcerers using musical machines during animal slaughter and burnt offerings God did NOT command. Sorry, you can get a Phd and miss Isaiah 1 and Jeremiah 7.

A PARASITE is such a priest or instrumental noise maker to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter" are called PARASITES.  All STAFF not connected with obeying the command to teach what Jesus Christ commanded to be taught are in all systems of religionism called PARASITES.  They are DEDICATED to adorn or enhance a religious temple or holy place and that word is called ANATHEMA.  Those who have dedicated their bodies and skills to ENHANCE the Word are ANATHEMA which means "they cannot be redeemed and must be burned." That is why musical instruments (sourced from the Devil or Lucifer) are almost always connected with being PUNISHED FOREVER AND EVER or ages after ages. 

Lucian of Samosato The Parasite and Instrumental Music as His tool

Parasi_t-os , ho, A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite, ; peri Parasitou, title of work by Lucian: c. gen., “kenēs p. trapezēs” [Money Changer's Table: collection Plates] metaph., ikhthus ēn p. (v. opson) Luc.Lex.6. II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense,

Parasi_t-i^kos , ē, on, A.of a parasitos : hē -kē （tekhnē) the trade of a parasitos, toad-eating, ib.4 ; in full, Ath.6.240b.
     LEGALISM: tekhn-ē , hē, (tektōn) A. art, skill, cunning of hand of a soothsayer, A.Ag.249 (pl., lyr.), Eu.17, S.OT389, etc.; “tekhnai heterōn heterai” Pi.N.1.25; “ōpase t. pasan” Id.O.7.50.
III. an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, LAWS system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, Pl.Phdr.245a, Arist.Rh.1354a11, EN1140a8; “hoi tas t. tōn logōn suntithentes LAWS of rhetoric, Arist.Rh.1354a12,
but rather TRICKS of Rhetoric, in Aeschin. 1.117)

Plat. Phaedrus 244e Moreover, when diseases and the greatest troubles have been visited upon certain families through some ancient guilt, madness  has entered in and by oracular power has found a way of release for those in need, taking refuge in prayers and the service of the gods,  and so, by purifications and sacred rites, he who has this madness is made safe for the present and the after time, and for him who is rightly possessed of madness a release from present 245a ills is found. 
        And a third kind of possession and madness comes from the Muses.
        This takes hold upon a gentle and pure soul, arouses it and inspires it to songs [ōdas opposite Logos] and other poetry,
        and thus by adorning [kosmousa] countless deeds of the ancients educates later generations. 
But he who without the divine madness comes to the doors of the Muses, confident that he will be a good poet by art, meets with no success, and the poetry of the sane man vanishes into nothingness before that of the inspired madmen.

THE ONLY LEGALISM CONCEPT OTHER THAN THE JEWS SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM INVOLVES ALL OF THE HYPOCRITIC OR PERFORMING ARTS.

A musical instrument is their "machine for doing hard work, making war and SHOCKING your pants off."

Nomos , ho, ( [nemô] ) can mean "the Law of God" without respect to MOSES.

A. that which is in habitual practice, use or possession, not in Hom. (cf. J.Ap.2.15), though read by Zenod. in Od.1.3.
I. usage, custom, [Mousai] melpontai pantôn te nomous kai êthea kedna Hes.Th.66n. archaios aristos

A. Mousa 1 [known as filthy adulteresses and the LOCUSTS of Revelation] I. the Muse, in pl. the Muses, goddesses of song, music, poetry, dancing, the drama, and all fine arts, Hom.: the names of the nine were Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia or Polyhymnia, Urania, and Calliope, Hes., II. mousa, as appellat., music, song, Pind., Trag.:--also eloquence, Eur.:--in pl. arts, accomplishments, Ar., Plat.[hypocrites]

Homer, Odyssey 1:[1] Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea

A. Melpontai Melpo celebrate with song and dance. Od.4.17, [make melody with singing and the phormizon or HARP of Apollo.] dance a war-dance in honour of Ares, Sing and play the kithera, sing and play the aulos or flute. Epithet of Dionysus.

Od.4.17 Homer Odyssey 4.[15] So they were feasting in the great high-roofed hall, the neighbors and kinsfolk of glorious Menelaus, and making merry; and among them a divine minstrel was singing to the lyre, and two tumblers whirled up and down through the midst of them, as he began his song.

II. a musical mode or strain, Aesch., Plat., etc.; nomoi kitharôidikoi Ar.
kitharôidikos 1 Or Click
1. of or for harp-playing, Ar.
2. hê -kê (sc. technê ) kitharôidia, Pla
2. a song sung in honour of some god, Hdt.; nomoi polemikoi war- tunes, Thuc.

To Set Ambush

polemikos 1 [polemos]
I. of or for war, Thuc.; aspis polemikôtatê most fit for service, Xen.
2. hê -kê (sc. technê ), the art of war, war, Plat.: --ta polemika warlike exercises

Plat. Laws 7.812c  regarding rhythms and harmonic compositions, in order that when dealing with musical representations of a good kind or a bad, by which the soul is emotionally affected,
        they may be able to pick out the reproductions of the good kind and of the bad,
        and having rejected the latter, may produce the other in public,
        and charm the souls of the children by singing them,
        and so challenge them all to accompany them in acquiring virtue by means of these representations.

Clinias Very true.

Plat. Laws 812d

Athenian
So, to attain this object, both the lyre-master and his pupil must use the notes of the lyre, because of the distinctness of its strings, assigning to the notes of the song notes in tune with them;¹ but as to divergence of sound and variety in the notes of the harp, when the strings sound the one tune and the composer of the melody another, or when there results a combination of low and high notes, of slow and quick time, of sharp and grave,

1 i.e. the notes of the instrument must be in accord with those of the singer's voice. “The tune, as composed by the poet, is supposed to have comparatively few notes, to be in slowish time, and low down in the register; whereas the complicated variation, which he is condemning, has many notes, is in quick time, and high up in the register.” (England.)

Hes. Th. 63 There are their bright dancing places and beautiful homes, and beside them the Graces and Himerus （Desire） live [65] in delight. And they, uttering through their lips a lovely voice, sing the laws of all and the goodly ways of the immortals, uttering their lovely voice. Then went they to Olympus, delighting in their sweet voice, with heavenly song, and the dark earth resounded [70] about them as they chanted and a lovely sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to their father.

THE WISE OR SOPHISTS: SPEAKERS, SINGERS, INSTRUMENT PLAYERS, ACTORS MUST FOLLOW EXACT LAWS.

Al Maxey: David lamented in one of his psalms the fact that a friend had become an enemy --- "My companion and my familiar friend; we who had sweet fellowship together; who walked in the house of God in the throng" (Psalm 55:13-14).

PICTURE OF THE FAMILIAR FRIEND: The Judas Box is always attached to the FLUTE CASE: The Judas Figure PIPES trying to ALARM Jesus.  Psallo and SOP have the same root meaning.

Psa 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues:
        for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psa 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
        mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Psa 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psa 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it:
        neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;
        then I would have hid myself from him:
Psa 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Psa 55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Psa 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell:
        for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Psa 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.

Earler this friend (fiend) is defined:

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Psalm 41: 8

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. Psalm 41: 9
But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalm 41: 10 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. Psalm 41: 11

The Church of Christ (the Rock) outlawed "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" or speaking beyond PREACHING the Word by READING the Word.  Christ outlawed the alarm or triumph over and left is as a MARK to identify God's Enemies.

The Jewish clergy as "musical children" did play their pipes and tried to force John and Jesus into their dance of ecstasy in violation of God's will:

But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. Nu 10:7

The truimph-over alarm, suitable to tribal movements, panicing the enemy or national rejoicing where no word from God was expected is:

Ruwa (h7321) roo-ah'; a prim. root; to mar (espec. by breaking); fig. to split the ears with sound, i. e. shout (for alarm or joy): - blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout for joy, sound an alarm, triumph.

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy (Judas) doth not triumph over me. Ps.41:11

DSS: And they, teachers of lies and seers of falsehood, .........have schemed against me a devilish scheme, to exchange the Law engraved on my heart by Thee .........for the smooth things which they speak to Thy people. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. Isaiah 32:6 The instruments [sword or psaltery) also of the churl (withholding instructions) are evil (afflicting): he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying (sham) words, even when the needy speaketh right. Isaiah 32:7 Instruments: Keliy (h3627) kel-ee'; from 3615; , instrument, jewel, that is made of, one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, / psaltery, DSS: And they withhold from the thirst the drink of Knowledge, (Amos 5, 6, 8, Isa 5) and assuage their thirst with vinegar, that they may gaze on their straying, on their folly concerning their feast-days (Jubilee, Feast of Tabernacles) on their fall into their snares. DSS: "The priests shall blow the trumpets of massacre, and the Levites and all the blowers of the ram's horn .........shall sound a battle alarm, .........and the foot soldiers shall stretch out their hands against the host... and at the sound of the alarm .........they shall begin to bring down the slain. All the people shall cease their clamor, .........but the priests shall continue .........to blow the trumpets of massacre."  - War Scroll DSS: They have overtaken me in a narrow pass (gap) without escape .........And there is no rest for me in my trial. .........They sound my censure upon a harp .........and their murmuring and storming upon a zither." Ps.41:11 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Ps.41:8 DSS: Then will I play on  the zither of deliverance and harp of joy, on the tabors of prayer and the pipe of praise without end.

 

Al Maxey Legalist: Enabling a weak soul is not ennobling it. We must learn the difference, and then proceed with love (both for Truth and the weak soul in need of its enlightening, freeing embrace).

God doesn't give anyone the right to ENABLE or DISABLE but Jesus.  Paul uses synagogue words for assemblying, gathering or coming together.  In Romans 14 paul SILENCES any private opinion which does not edify meaning EDUCATE.

WHO ARE THE WEAK WHO MIGHT ATTEND BUT NOT BE PERMITTED TO SPEAK.  If you DON'T play instruments when you CLAIM to speak for Jesus ALL of the Musical Discorders use the language of violence but speak out of their own imagination.

Romans 14:1 Him that is weak in THE faith receive ye,
        but not to doubtful [divisive interpretation of dreams or omens, quarrel]
        disputations.

THE WEAK GREEK;   -Asthen-ēs , es,  weak in the mind 5. Insignificant, “ouk asthenestatos sophistēs Hellēnōn” [pagan] Hdt.4.95; paltry, “a. sophisma” A.Pr.1011;

Hdt. 4.95 Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras [IMPURE worship is THRESKIA from "that Thracian, Orpheus]

Aesch. PB 1007 Yet it is a paltry device that prompts your vehemence, for in the foolish-minded mere self-will of itself avails less than anything at all. But if you will not be won to belief by my words

THOSE WHO ARE WEAK:--Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28,  of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” [play flute] with modal words added, Prietly person Making Melody in the Assembly “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” Ael.NA11.1   Apollōnos [Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon]  poiētai, humnous idekai suggrapheis, compose a speech

The WEAK Latin in-firmus   less nourishing,  Of things, of no weight or consequence, weak, trivial, inconclusive: II.    Trop., weak in mind or character, superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded: “tenuis atque infirmi haec animi videri,” Caes. B. C. 1, 32: “quippe minuti Semper et infirmi est animi voluptas ultio,” [passonate] Juv. 13, 190:

vŏluptas, satisfaction, enjoyment, pleasure, delight  an officer in the imperial household,” master of the revels, Suet. Tib. 42 fin.—
A. Of persons, as a term of endearment: “mea voluptas,” my joy, my charmer,
B. Voluptates, sports, shows, spectacles, given to the people, Cic. Mur. 35, 74: “ne    "Are you asking employment as a pimp from a band of luxurious youths"  minimo quidem temporis voluptates intermissae,” Tac. H. 3, 83; C. The desire for pleasure, bent, passion: “suam voluptatem explere,” Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Am. prol. 19;

In-firmus   weak in mind or character, superstitious, pusillanimous, inconstant, light-minded: not to be depended on,
2. Weak-mindedly, superstitiously: “tonitrua et fulgura paulo infirmius expavescebat,” Suet. Aug. 9. —

God is God and Al Maxey is Not: Therefore, Al Maxey does not get any authority--usurped from the vocational elders--is to teach that which has been taught.  God said that the Imagination of man is only evil continually. That is why Christ commanded US not to pay for the free water of the Word in Isaiah 55 and the pretenders NOT to seek their own pleasure or SPEAK THEIR OWN WORDS (Isaiah 58).  That's the command of the Spirit OF Christ: Al Maxey may know better.

Psallo is a wicked word so Paul SILENCED it.  If God had wanted to indicate musical melody (a series of single tones) He would have used the word MELOS: the word for meditating in the heart is MELETE.

cōgĭtātĭo  a thinking, considering, deliberating; thought, reflection, subitam et fortuitam orationem commentatio et cogitatio facile vincit,” A. Concr., a thought, opinion, judgment; a resolution, design. plan, project:

Speaking, singing or playing instruments comes out of the apostate's OWN IMAGINATION and they intend to BIND people to RELIGIOUS observations to which Jesus said the Kingdom does not come. ALL musical terms point to sorcery (Miriam and the Levites) because they BIND the mind to the performer who INTENDS that you give your attention (worship) to Him and not to God.

vincĭo to bind, fetter, confine, restrain, attach: “vi Veneris vinctus,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 32: “religione vinctus astrictusque,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 42, § 90; cf.: “inimica ora (magicis artibus),” Of speech: “membra (orationis) sunt numeris vincienda,” i. e. arranged rhythmically, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

LEGALISTIC BINDERS ARE ars  I. Skill in producing any material form, handicraft, trade, occupation, employment (tekhnē).
1. With the idea extended, any physical or mental activity, so far as it is practically exhibited; a profession, art (music, poetry, medicine, etc.); : “rhetorica,” Quint. 2, 17, 4: “musica,” poetry, Ter. Hec. prol. 23: “musica,” music,

Al Maxey Legalist: In a fabulous study titled "Music and History," the author, F. L. Lemley, makes this observation: "There is no valid reason why one who seeks Truth should withhold information on a controversial point. Fear of reprisal from well-meaning, but often misinformed, brethren should never cause us to hesitate in telling all of the Truth we know" [Mission Messenger, vol. 30, no. 11, November, 1968].

F.L.Lemley had not read the Bible either.

F. L. Lemley and the Mission Messenger was a Purpose Driven Paper intended to be a Stalking Horse for the NACC after the RESTRUCTURE of the Disciples of Christ--Christian Church. That was finalized when the NACC was removed from the DISCIPLES body count as Churches of Christ denied that they had EVER unioned with the Disciples. Remember that the DISCIPLES finally removed the NACC from its census in 1971: Leroy Garrett (a Summerite) boasted about becoming a "campus minister." The Ston-Campbell Movement is a deliberate lie.

July 4-6, 1974, the 9th Annual Unity Forum was held at Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee. Leroy Garrett proposed this forum while at Bethany College nine years ago; F. L. Lemley presided on the panel which discussed "How Do Faith and Opinion Relate to Unity and Fellowship'!" The first speaker was Edward Fudge. A key point urged by Ed was, "Fellowship and unity, therefore, do not mean the same thing." (This and other quotes of Ed's speech taken verbatim from tapes.

The use of instruments is an OPINION which is ANTI-FAITH since faith comes by hearing. NOT using instruments was never based on opinion since there is not a command, example or remote inference of the godly people ever being called out of their rest for "congregational singing" with or without instruments.  The Disciples-Christians had built mega churches and staff from Carpet Bags: when they ran empty they confessed that they could not continue without adding the organ (ONLY, you see).

Edward Fudge first and always an ANTI is ANTI anything the Church of Christ does. That includes baptism, the Lord's Supper, Instrumental Music, Women in leadership and denouncing the Spirit of Christ about HOW LONG is forever and ever.

Al Maxey Legalist:  Whenever this subject comes up, get your Bibles ready because you can be sure that you will be referred to the "twin jewels" of all proof-texts: Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16. There it is, folks. Proof positive that God forbids the use of instruments when His church gathers to sing His praises.

Praise singing is the world's OLDEST profession of the "prophesier" or witchdoctor who was emotionally and sexually abnormal. By engaging in fertiliity rituals the praise concept is that you can CALL DOWN whatever material gift you praise.  Furthermore, the praise leader was hired to ASSIST the gods who kept on failing them over and over.  Paul said that the way to praise or glorify God is to "use one mind and one mouth to speak that which is written for our LEARNING." We straight adults don't do praise services when we sit dow and listen to Jesus IF you have APT elders.

Jacob cursed and God abandoned the Levites to worship the starry host in the Babylonish Jerusalem. God did not command king, kingdom, temple, animal slaughter or Levites making EXORCISING noises.

The Jews (Israelites) fell into instrumental of the always-pagan Egyptian trinity at Mount Sinai. This was a sin beyond redemption and God turned them over to worship the Starry host.

Lucifer is Venus, Zoe or EVE as she was worshipped as the only Mediatrix.  The Spirit OF Christ called him/her "a singing and harp-playing prostitute in the garden of Eden."

Christ outlawed "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" or Al Maxey's private words.  The synagogue was defined as:
EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrument rejoicing that "blowing the trumpet" sounds.
INCLUSIVE of REST, reading and rehearsing the Word of god.
That pattern never changed for the godly Jews and continued by the definition of ekklesia or synagogue as a School of the Word.
There is no command, example or remote inference of congregational singing with or without instruments in the Bible or until long after the Reformation.
Instrumental noise is always the CAUSE or MARK of God driving His enemies into hell or the Lake of Fire.

Al Maxey Legalist: And then I bothered to read mine!! It wasn't long before I was asking God to forgive me for my ignorance and arrogance!! I was ashamed of myself for mishandling His Word so horribly, and, frankly, am both ashamed and embarrassed by the continued distortion of these texts by the traditionalists [a lie word] in my faith-heritage. [a lie word]

Paul did not CORRUPT the Word meaning selling learning at wholesale. Those who give the Simon Magos the "spirit gift" sell learning at RETAIL.  That word means PROSTITUTION. 

LOGOS or word is the Regulative principle: it is the opposite of Al's rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting.
Christ in Isaiah 8 said of those who do not SPEAK THE WORD "THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM." Therefore, Al is still strongly deluded and believes his own lies. PROOF?  Lying Wonders includes rhetoric, singing, playing or acting in a religious OPERATION to which Jesus said the kingdom does not come.

Jesus said that God HIDES from the WISE or SOPHISTS: speakers, singers and instrument players.
Jesus said that He will not pray for the WORLD or KOSMOS promoted by the NACC and once-Christian colleges as COSMIC WORSHIP.

Christ in the Prophets, Paul and all recorded history

SPEAK to YOURSELVES with "that which is written for our learning.
ODE and PSALLO IN (place) the heart meaning silent as in 1 Corinthians 14.
ODE is an enchanting or sorcery word and PSALLO is a making war or making perverted love word.

AL MAXEY PROVING THAT THE CANDLESTICK HAS BEEN REMOVED LITERALLY SEES DENIES BLACK TEXT ON BROWN PAPER.

Al Maxey Legalist says: SING or Listen to performers violating the commanded resource.
Al Maxey Legalist:           SING and make melody UPON a HARP outside of the heart or mind.

YOU BLASPHEME GOD when you say that HE was more ignorant than simple simon who understood that if you want to speak of an instrument you:

As in the Bible uses two or three words.

Is. 23:16 Take an [1] harp, go about the city,
        thou harlot [who earns money] that hast been forgotten;
        make sweet [2] melody,
        [3] sing many songs,
        that thou mayest be remembered.

PROSTITUTES SELL PARTS OF THEIR BODY WIITHOUT PRODUCTIVE WORK CALLED PARASITES.

X.Mem.1.6.13  Xen. Mem. 1.6.13

To this Socrates replied: “Antiphon, it is common opinion among us
        in regard to beauty and wisdom
                that there is an honourable
                and a shameful way of bestowing them.
        For to offer one's beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution;

        But we think it virtuous to become friendly with
              a lover who is known to be a man of honour.

        So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money
               are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom, 

        But we think that he who makes a friend of one whom he knows to be gifted
               by nature, and teaches him all the good he can,
               fulfils the duty of a citizen and a gentleman.

Sophis-tēs , ou, o(, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” [melody in the holy place--a death sentence for any Levite]

SELLING THE FREE WATER OF THE WORD IS CALLED THIEVERY

HO, every one that thirsteth,
        come ye to the waters,
        and he that hath no money;
        come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
        come, buy wine and milk WITHOUT MONEY
        and WITHOUT PRICE. Isa 55:1

2 Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many,
............ which corrupt the word of God:
............ but as of sincerity, but as of God,
............ in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

kapēl-euō,  A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade Hdt. 3.89  ta mathēmata
sell learning by retail, hawk it about, Pl. Prt.313d , 2 Cor. 2:17, of prostitutes,

Plat. Prot. 313d  For among the provisions, you know, in which these men deal, not only are they themselves ignorant what is good or bad for the body, since in selling they commend them all, but the people who buy from them are so too, unless one happens to be a trainer or a doctor. And in the same way, those who take their doctrines the round of our cities, hawking them about to any odd purchaser who desires them, commend everything that they sell, and there may well be some of these too, my good sir, who are ignorant which of their wares is

[313e] good or bad for the soul; and in just the same case are the people who buy from them, unless one happens to have a doctor's knowledge here also, but of the soul. So then, if you are well informed as to what is good or bad among these wares, it will be safe for you to buy doctrines from Protagoras or from anyone else you please: but if not, take care, my dear fellow, that you do not risk your greatest treasure on a toss of the dice.

RESOURCE FROM CHRIST: Jeremiah Prophetic 

Jer 15:16 Thy words were found,
        and I did eat them; and
        thy word was unto me the joy

sermo prose as opposed to poetry, verba inculcantes   to impress

-Verba translation of logos,

RESOURCE Ephesian Prophecy made more certain
Eph. 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise,
      but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

-aphrōn A.senseless, of statues, and so, crazed, frantic, “aphrona kourēn”  of maiden-goddesses, however old, as the Eumenides,
Dialog of Phaedrus and Socrates notes:
It might be so if madness were simply an evil;
but there is also a madness which is a divine gift,
and the source of the chiefest blessings granted to men.
        For prophecy is a madness,
        and the prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses at Dodona
                when out of their senses have conferred great benefits on Hellas,
                both in public and private life, but when in their senses few or none.

Eph. 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
         lŏquor tone of conversation

logos, Vulg. Joan. 1, 1; id. 1 Joan. 5, 7; id. Apoc. 19, 13. [Opposite of poetry or music]

CHRIST IN JEREMIAH

and rejoicing [ludo]
of [IN, EIS] mine heart
Cor, person, to have at heart, to lay great stress upon, to value, wisdom, understanding, heart, mind, judgment, kardia

AND PAUL CONFIRMED THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST TO JEREMIAH.

singing and making melody
      in your heart to the Lord;

The command is to SPEAK the ODES

-lexis , eōs, h(, (legō B) A. speech, OPPOSITE. ōdē, Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth,

ōdē, [never instrumental, enchantment, sorcery] OPPOSITE -lexis

You cannot PSALLO nor ODE WITH your HEART.  The heart is in OPPOSITION to the voice. You cannot TEACH or admonish or comfort WITH your heart. Your heart is

kardia what do you think are his feelings? Pl.R.492c; of sorrow or joy, 3. MIND, “hōs anoon kradiēn ekhes
noos  1. mind, as employed in perceiving and thinking, sense, wit, apprehenD, remember.  b. Mind as the active principle of the Universe, OPPOSITE TO. doxa, Pl.Ti.51d,
doxa  notion, mere, opinion, judgement, whether well grounded or not
Opposite epistēmē, scientific knowledge,
Opposite noēsis, II. concrete, idea, concept, “hē koinē tou theou
doxan,
Opposite. kat' ousian 2. substance, essence, Opposite. pathē  stable being, immutable reality,

Al Maxey Legalist: Brethren, here is a truth that some among us would prefer you never hear -- the two passages referred to above have nothing whatsoever to do with instrumental music. They neither condone nor condemn their use; they neither permit nor prohibit. Further, these two passage have nothing whatsoever to do with a corporate "worship service" of believers.

When you are commanded to SPEAK and to TEACH you just don't include "instrumental noise."
When you IMPOSE instruments when the command is to TEACH that which is written for our LEARNING you are ANTI--WORD.

IN CHAPTER 4 WHICH COMES BEFORE CHAPTER 5

A Christ gifted APT elder as the only pastor teacher is told to SILENCE the cunning craftsmen or sophists (speakers, singers, instrument players) SO THAT you

Ephesiahs 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man,
        which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Ephesiahs 4: 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;  [be filled with the spirit or Word]
Ephesiahs 4:24 And that ye put on the new man,
        which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Ephesiahs 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying,
        speak every man truth with his neighbour:
        for we are members [of the assembly] one of another.

Christ in the Wilderness defined A SCHOOL OF THE WORD: it was PREACHED by being READ on the REST days. Christians are Disciples and Disciples are STUDENTS. Students do not attend "worship services" which is what the pagans.  Christians never gathered, assembled or come together as SYNAGOGUE to make music when it was outlawed for the crude and rude.

Al Maxey Legalist:  The legalistic [a lie word] patternists [a lie word],
        however, will become so enraged over such a revelation
        that they will almost literally foam at the mouth, [a lie word]

for this truth renders their "proof texts" for condemning the "denominationalists" for their "soul-damning error" of using instruments in a "worship service" null and void. The stark reality is: the only ones in error here are those condemning where God Himself has not!! [a lie word]

We patternists since the Word or Logos is the REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE only get uppity when Maxeyites boast about infiltrating and diverting YOUR congregation into a theater for holy entertainment.

Al Maxey Legalist:  If one will simply bother to examine the context of these two passages, one will quickly discover that the apostle Paul is NOT discussing procedural precepts and ritualistic restrictions for a "worship service" in a "church sanctuary" on a Sunday morning. He is discussing guiding principles of daily living among the disciples of Christ.

When Paul uses words such as assemblying yourselves, gathering together or coming together which is a SYNAGOGUE word he is speaking of the ekklesia or the assembly of Christ. The ONLY reason they came together in a ONCE A WEEK PATTERN was ordained by Christ for the ekklesia, synagogue, qahal or Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness.

THE ONE PIECE PATTERN WHICH EXCLUDED RHETORIC OR STAFF:

Acts 8:32 The place of the scripture which he READ was this,
        He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
        and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
        them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Acts 23:34 And when the governor had READ the letter,
        he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;

2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
        for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the READING of the old testament;
        which vail is done away in Christ. 
2Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is READ, the vail is upon their heart.

Col. 4:16 And when this epistle is READ among you,
        cause that it be READ also in the church of the Laodiceans;
        and that ye likewise READ the epistle from Laodicea.

1Th. 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be READ unto all the holy brethren.

Rev. 5:4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to READ the book, neither to look thereon.

JESUS was defining A School of the Word of Christ: a church of Christ is built upon or EDUCATED by the Prophets and Apostles. Why would anyone think about making music to EDUCATE?

Ephesians 4 Comes before Ephesians 5:

Paul ALWAYS silences the hypocritic arts and crafts SO THAT the direct command to "use one mind and one mouth" to teach "that which is written for our LEARNING" is possible. Paul continues to show that the Scriptures are for our Comfort: Jesus as the  Holy Spirit Paraklete COMFORTS through His Word.  Preaching, singing and playing instruments and making you PAY for it is NOT very comforting.

RELIGIONISTS OUTSIDE OF GOD'S GRACE:  We are saved FROM:

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
        according to the prince of the power of the air,
        the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Kosmos , ho,  natgural, II.rnament, decoration, esp. of women; “hieros k.” OGI90.40 (Rosetta, ii B. C.): pl., ornaments, A.Ag.1271; “hoi peri to sōma k.” Isoc.2.32: metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets, Id.9.9 (pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14, Po.1457b2, 1458a33; hadumelē k. keladein to sing sweet songs of praise, Pi.O.11 (10).13 (s.v.l.).

Hēdu^-melēs , Dor. had- , Aeol. ad- , es, A. sweet-singing, “khelidoi” Anacr.67, cf. Sapph.122（Comp.), Pi.N.2.25; sweet-sounding, “xoana” S.Fr.238, etc.: poet. fem., “hēdumeleia surigx” Nonn.D.29.287.

Surigx , iggos, hē,

A. shepherd's pipe, Panspipe, “aulōn suriggōn t' enopē” Il.10.13; “nomēes terpomenoi surigxi” 18.526; “suriggōn enopē” h.Merc.512; “hupo ligurōn suriggōn hiesan audēn” Hes.Sc.278; “ou molpan suriggos ekhōn” S.Ph.213 (lyr.); kalaminē s. Ar.Fr.719; “kat' agrous tois nomeusi surigx an tis eiē” Pl.R.399d.

2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “surizō” 11.2, surigmos:—the last part of the nomos Puthikos was called surigges, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10.

3. mouthpiece of the aulos,

THE CHRISTIAN ANTITHESIS:

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon [educated by] the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

CHRIST TOLD PAUL THAT APT ELDERS ARE TO TOSS OUT THE SOPHISTS

Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;
        and some, pastors and teachers;

NO PREACHERS AS SERMONIZERS, NO SINGERS, NO INSTRUMENT PLAYERS. If you have an evangelist then QUICKLY SEND HIM OUT with a begging bag to validate he FREE GOSPEL.

Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
        for the edifying [educating] of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith,
        and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
        unto a perfect man,
        unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children,
        tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
        by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

CHURCH MUST EXCLUDE ALL OF THE CUNNING CRAFTSMEN.

Panourgia (g3834) pan-oorg-ee'-ah; from 3835; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry: - (cunning) craftiness, subtilty.

-Panourg-êma  A. knavish trick, villainy, S.El.1387 (lyr.), LXX Si.1.6 (v.l.); sophistry, Gal.5.251; cf. panourgeuma.

Cunning craftiness has the same meaning as SOPHOS:

1Cor. 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
        seemeth to be wise [sophos] in this world,
        let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Cor. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
        For it is written,
        He taketh the wise  sophia
        in their own craftiness. pa^nourg-ia

Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

1Cor. 3:20 And again,
        The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, sophōn
        that they are vain. matai-os 
   
-Sophia A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasēs eu eidē s. Il.15.412; of the Telchines, Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 1d; of Daedalus and Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33, cf. 1.4.2; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117

Al Maxey Legalists: "But, it says to sing 'in your hearts,'" the legalists will counter. Okay, so where do you get the authority for using your voice box? Two can play this "law of silence" game. The reality is: when you examine the context you will discover quickly that there are two audiences in view in these passages.

One is GOD, the other is ONE ANOTHER.

Singing and psalming (making melody) in our hearts is "to the Lord." Audible sounds are irrelevant with this audience, for it is our hearts He "hears."

ODE is the opposite of LEXIS or SPEAK.
If you SPEAK one to another "using that which is written for our learning."
Then ODE and PSALLO are IN or in the PLACE of the heart or MIND.
If I keep the "enchantment" and making war or making sex IN the heart then ODE and PSALLO are SILENT.

Paul said that the converted Jews:
Worshipped God IN THE SPIRT and NOT IN THE FLESH.
Rejecting the ODE and PSALLO would keep the DOGS or CONCISION or old style praise howlers from being interested.

Al Maxey Legalist TRADITIONALISTS: "But, the history of the first several hundred years shows most early disciples didn't use instruments." Okay, so now we're going to determine and establish Christian attitudes and practices based on historical precedent?

No literate historic scholar could even HALLUCINATE ANY KIND OF MUSIC in The School (only) of the Word (only).

The Historic Scholars had Read Synagogue, Ekklesia, Qahal or Church of Christ (the ROCK) in the wilderness. They understood that "vocal or instrumental rejoicing" or any personal opinions were EXCLUDED
The PATTERN was to Rest, Read and Rehearse The word of God (only)

Sabbath or REST was in the isolated villages and WORK outlawed "sending out ministers of God."

See John Calvin describing the Qahal or Church of Christ in the Wilderness which was an ACADEMY and never a "worship center."

The Direct Command is to SPEAK that which is written for our learning.
Nothing from God is metrical and cannot be sung tunefully
Singing or cantillating in Unison only was made possible by Calvin allowing some Psalms (only) to be set to a simple meter.
The Catholics never engaged in congregational singing with organ accompaniment.

Hymnody developed systematically, however, only after the emperor Constantine legalized Christianity (AD 313); and it flourished earliest in Syria, where the practice was possibly taken over from the singing by Gnostics and Manichaeans of hymns imitating the psalms. The Byzantine Church adopted the practice; in its liturgy, hymns maintain a much more prominent place than in the Latin liturgy; and Byzantine hymnody developed complex types such as the kanon and kontakion (qq.v.; see also Byzantine chant). Saint Ephraem--a 4th-century Mesopotamian deacon, poet, and hymnist--has been called the "father of Christian hymnody." Britannica Online

From Ephraim the Syrian and Aphrahat the Persian Sage

To Ephraim pertains the high and unique distinction of having originated-or at least given its living impulse to-
a new departure in sacred literature; and that, not for his own country merely, but for Christendom.

From him came, if not the first idea, at all events the first successful example,
of making song an essential constituent of public worship,
and an exponent of theological teaching;
and from him it spread and prevailed through
the Eastern Churches, and affected even those of the West.

To the Hymns, on which chiefly his fame rests, the Syriac ritual in all its forms owes much of its strength and richness;
and to them is largely due the place which Hymnody holds throughout the Church everywhere. And hence it has come to pass that, in the Church everywhere, he stands as the representative Syrian Father, as the fixed epithet appended to his name attests-" Ephraim the Syrian,"-the one Syrian known and reverenced in all Christendom.

From a few lines of Proba's work can be seen the problems with this approach: little of what was created could justifiably be placed alongside the great works of the past, and since that was an implicit target the failure to meet it was embarrassing; more pressingly, such Christianisations did not appeal to the highly educated, who preferred to read the imitated originals,

and did not appeal to Christians who would not otherwise have read the originals, who needed something written to their own culture and not to that of a past elite. This kind of imitation had its brief flourishing at the time of the emperor Julian, who forbade Christians to teach pagan works, but had no lasting effect.

Al Maxey Legalist: Lemley said,

"Frankly, it is not conclusive to reason that because instrumental music was not used in the first century it is therefore wrong and sinful and against God's will. The fact that a practice wasn't in vogue in the first century isn't proof that God disapproves of it" [Mission Messenger, vol. 30, no. 11, November, 1968].

We DO know that when it was used it was condemned.

We repeat to the deaf: there is NO MUSICAL CONTENT in the Assembly as a SCHOOL OF THE WORD.
It is OUTLAWED: Lemley is being legalistic by seeking a command that says THOU SHALT NOT PLAY THY INSTRUMENT WHEN JESUS COMES TO BE OUR ONLY TEACHER.

Bro. Lemley goes on to say:

"Let us assume that instrumental music was not in use among any of the congregations in the first century. Has it ever occurred to history students to enquire as to WHY it was not used? Should not the reason WHY it was not used have some bearing on our reasoning? ... Was it because God had spoken on it and condemned its use? No! There is not one word on the specific subject in the New Testament Scriptures" [ibid].

LEMLEY LIES LAWLESSLY: Lemley does not know and has no need to know the meaning of specific words used to identify those who make religious music as a profession: the Jacob-Cursed and God-Abandoned Levites prophesied with instruments which means that they were soothsayer-sorcerers out of Egypt where they served infant burning as PRIMARY PARASITES/

Lemley correctly points out in his study that the use of instruments is considered sinful today by the legalists by virtue of their humanly devised "law of silence."

The SINNERS beyond redemption at Mount Sinai were the ones who IMPOSED instruments.  Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: in Ezekiel 33 Christ named preachers for hire, singers and instrument players. The MARK was they would neither speak nor obey the Word.  Because of their IMPROVIZING Jesus said that their worship was VAIN.

From about 1878 recorded history will show that the Disciples-Christians said that NOT using instruments was SINFUL and Evil.  Churches of Christ get vocal ONLY when evil preachers boast about "infiltrating and diverting YOUR property into a theater for holy entertainment." The agents of the Standard sent eveangelists into Tennessee boasting WE WILL TAKE TENNESSEE FOR THE ORGAN AND SOCIETY PARTY WITHIN FIVE YEARS.

IT IS A FACT THAT THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST INVENTED THE LAW OF SILENCE IN A LAWLESS SENSE.

A Disciple of Christ with A holy spirit or A good conscience or consciousness which means the ability to read BLACK text on BROWN paper

Commands, Examples, and Necessary Inferences

THE ABSOLUTE AND ONLY PATTERN:

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (Old, empty wineskins), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter (these people used musical devices and said that the gods lived inside of them):
should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 8:19

Yiddeoniy (h3049) yid-deh-o-nee'; from 3045; prop. a knowing one; spec. a conjurer; (by impl.) a ghost: - wizard.

"In Isa 8:19 the 'obhoth and yidh'onim are spoken of those who 'chirp and mutter." These terms refer to the necromancers themselves who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. In Isa 29:4 it is said 'Thy voice shall be as an 'obh, out of the ground.'... They are stamped in these passages, as in the Witch of Endor narrative, as deceivers practising a fraudulent art. By implication their power to evoke spirits with whom they were in familiar intercourse is denied." (Int Std Bible Ency., ency, p. 690

incanto   

1. To consecrate with charms or spells: incantata vincula,lovelcnots,
        vinculum , or (also in class. prose), contr., vinclum , i, n. [id.] , that with which any thing is bound, a band, bond, rope,
2. To bewitch, enchant 

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20

THE PATTERN DEFINED BY CHRIST FOR THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS

Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Lego  To say something, i. e. to speak to the point or purpose,

7.Pass., legetai, like Lat. dicitur, it is said, on dit, Hdt., also legontai einai they are said to be
9.to boast of, tell of, Xen.: to RECITE what is written, labe to biblion kai lege Plat., etc.:—but the sense of Lat. lego, to read, only occurs in compds., analegomai, epilegomai.
13. recite what is written, “labe to biblion kai lege” Pl.Tht.143c; and freq. in Oratt., as “lege ton nomon” D.21.8 and 10, etc.; of lectures, “akousate mou skholia legontos”

The  only Resource
biblion or bublion , to,

3. ta b. place in which books are kept, library, “anethēkate eis ta b.” D.Chr.37.8.

4. ta b. ta hagia the sacred books or Scriptures, LXX 1 Ma.12.9; ta b. tou nomou

The  only Purpose Driving the Church

Skholion   A.“skholē” 111) interpretation, comment, Cic.Att.16.7.3; “skholia legein”  esp. short note, scholium, Gal.18(2).847, etc.; “skholia sunageirōn”  s. eis ti on a book, 

The  church is ekklesia or synagogue
Suna^geirō , aor. sunēgeira, Ep. A.“xunageira” Il.20.21: Ep. 3pl. aor.1 Pass. “sunagerthen” Theoc.22.76:—gather together, assemble, hōn heneka xunageira (sc. tous theous) Il. l.c., cf. Pl.Criti.121c; “ekklēsiēn” Hdt.3.142, cf. 1.206;

Analegō , Ep. impf. allegon  ek biblōn a. collect materials from books, select or take up a theme for discussion [The synagogue read through especially the prophets in a planned pattern.]
III. in Med., read through, “to peri psukhēs gramm' analexamenos” Call.Epigr. 25; “sukhnas analexamenos graphas” D.H.1.89; “ek grammatōn a. ti” Plu. 2.582a:—Pass., Sapphous -omenēs

Logos is the opposite of poetry or music or preacher jokes or examples.
4.speech, delivered in court, assembly
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis

Speaking that which is Written for our LEARNING is Opposite of singing which Ephesians 5 makes perfectly clear EXCEPT for merchants.

Lexis A. speech, opposite ōdē,Pl.Lg.816d; l. ē praxis speech or action, Id.R.396c; ho tropos tēs l. ib.400d; ta lexei dēloumena orders given by word of mouth,

opposite exegesis [Peter's private interpretation outlaws exegesis or FURTHER exppounding]

And for the Slow ones in the Slow Group: "in your heart in 1 Cor 14 meant keep it to yourselves.

ōdē , hē, contr. for aoidē,opposite. lexis,
2. = epōdos, magic song, spell,Longus 2.7.
joyful songs, songs of praise, “kallinikos”
“en tais ōdais kai melesin [Odes and musical melody is opposite to speaking for learning]

Praxis  II. doing, tōn agathōn
moral action, opposite. poiēsis , [Melody]   tekhnē, [rhetoric, soothsaying, all religious trades]
opposite. pathos, [My personal experiences, opinions, jokes]

Al Maxey Legalist: For a faction within the Body to take these texts from out of their contexts, and to force them into service as proof-texts for personal and party preferences and practices, is an abuse of God's Word that borders on "abomination."

Peter spoke of some "untaught and unstable" characters who were "distorting the Scriptures to their own destruction" (2 Peter 3:16).

See 2 Peter 3 and the End time Musical Mockers

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;
         in which are some things hard to be understood,
        which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,
        as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

2 Peter 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,
        beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

pla^n-aō , 6. in forensic Rhet., khrōmata peplanēmena, metathesis pep., of alternative pleas, Hermog. Stat.3.

7. to be misled, “hupo phōnēs koinotētos” Phld.Sign.7; tais homōnumiais ib.36.
2. lead from the subject, in talking, D.19.335.
2. wander in speaking, “p. en tō logō” Hdt.2.115; digress, “p. apo tou logou” Pl.Plt.263a.

6. in forensic Rhetoric., khrōmata peplanēmena, metathesis pep., of alternative pleas,  

7. to be misled, “hupo phōnēs koinotētos” Phld.Sign.7; tais homōnumiais ib.36.

If you speak using one mind and one mouth that which is written for our learning we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord.

If we all speak in common the songs and sermons of another person then the loud preaching and music and FORCE you to conform to the "group mind." That is evil.

A.  Phōn-eō , (phōnē) 4. of a musical instrument, sound, E.Or.146 (lyr.); of sounds, hēdu phōnein sound sweetly, Plu.2.1021b; but brontē ph. it has a voice, is significant, X.Ap.12.
phōn-ē , hē, 4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595; “suriggōn” E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “aulōn” Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “hē ph. tēs salpiggos” LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7; “hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.

B. koinotētos A. sharing in common, community, common language,
3. generality, vagueness, “tōn homologiōn” D.H.2.39, etc.; ambiguity, “onomatos”
II. in Politics, IV. concrete, the general body of a boulē,
IV. concrete, the general body of a boulē,

Plat. Theaet. 208d Socrates
Understand why I say this. It is because, as we were just saying, if you get hold of the distinguishing characteristic by which a given thing differs from the rest, you will, as some say, get hold of the definition or explanation of it;
        but so long as you cling to some common quality,
        your explanation will pertain to all those objects
        to which the common quality belongs.

Al Maxey Legalist Disruptive: May God protect us from such folk, for, sadly, they have always been around doing their best to disturb the simplicity and purity of the Gospel, as well as disrupting the unity of the One Body.

Churches of Christ were never UNIONED with the Disciples of Christ or Christian Churches.
Alexander Campbell said there could be no fraternal unity before the 1832 agreement of a few preachers
The 1832 signed agreement would have forbidden anything not commanded to prevent disrupting the School of Christ.
Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone denied that there could be ONE BODY after the 1823. Stone would demand a Creed and the name Christian and defined "unity" as the Reformed Baptists "coming over to US."

The Disciples-Christians claimed that We will take Tennessee for the Organ and Society party within 5 years.
They tried to confiscate a church or two and published lots of hate literature.
In 1906 David Lipscomb agreed with the Census Taker that the Disciples-Christian COULD NOT count Churches of Christ as part of their DENOMINATION.

So to speak of division caused by godly members of THE BODY for not beginning to do something they had NEVER DONE by direct command from the wilderness onward is one of the LIES told as psychologial violence but it IS a lie and the sorcerers (rhetoricians, singers, instrument players) will have their place in the LAKE OF FIRE with liars.

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