Ephesians 6 Spiritual forces in Heavenly Realms

Ephesians 4 Unity in Diversity
Ephesians 5 Singing amd Making Melody
Clangs and Gongs in the Classics
1.Corinthians 13 Sounding Brass and Tinkling Cymbals
Eph 6:1 CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Eph 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Eph 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Eph 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Eph 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
Eph 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Eph 6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Eph 6:9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Katergazomai (g2716) kat-er-gad'-zom-ahee; from 2596 and 2038; to work fully, i.e. accomplish; by impl. to finish, fashion: - cause, do (deed), perform, work (out).

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2. The superior races and their manifestations
In what does a
dæmon differ from a hero or half-god or from a soul? 7 It is it in essence, in power, or in energy? 8

7. Here Porphyry has given an ancient classification of spiritual beings into four orders, the gods, dæmons or guardians, the heroes or half-gods, and souls. There were other distinctions in the Eastern countries, and we find Abammon, the Teacher, adding to these the archangels, angels, and archons of both the higher and lower nature. These were named in several of the Gnostic categories that were extant at that period.

"We have no conflict with blood and flesh," says the Christian apostle, "but with archonates, authorities, the world-rulers of this dark region, and spiritual forces of evil in the upper heavens."

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Ep.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;

Eph 6: 12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We do NOT wrestle against flesh and blood:

[12] diabolou: hoti ouk estin hêmin palê pros haima kai sarka, alla pros tas archas, pros tas exousias, pros tous kosmokratoras touskotous toutou, pros ta pneumatika tês ponêrias en tois epouraniois


Pale (g3823) pal'-ay; from pallo, (to vibrate; another form for 906); wrestling: - / wrestle

G906 ballō bal'-lo A primary verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense):arise, cast (out), X dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Compare G4496 .

Pallô, poise, sway a missile before it is thrown, sway, brandish, she drove it furiously, tripped on the shield-rim, quiver, leap, esp. in fear, II. Pass., swing, dash oneself, Pi.N.5.21; vibrate, of strings, Pl.Phd.94c (psalloito ap. Stob.); skirtêtikon kai pallomenon to neon (etym. of Pallas) Corn.ND20, cf. Pl.Cra. 407a. III. intr., leap, bound, E.El.435, Ar.Lys.1304 (lyr.); [p. 1294] quiver, quake, phrena deimati pallôn S.OT153 (lyr.); dash along, of horses, E.El.477 (lyr.).
Pi.N.5.21   Pindar, Nemean 5.

[15] how indeed they left the glorious island, and what divine power drove the brave men from Oenone. I will stop: it is not always beneficial for the precise truth to show her face, and silence is often the wisest thing for a man to heed. [19] But if it is resolved to praise wealth, or the strength of hands, or iron war, [20] let someone mark off a long jump for me from this point. I have a light spring in my knees, and eagles swoop over the sea. The most beautiful chorus of Muses sang gladly for the Aeacids on Mt. Pelion, and among them Apollo, sweeping the seven-tongued lyre with a golden plectrum, [25][25] led all types of strains. And the Muses began with a prelude to Zeus

There joyful bands welcome the god with the cry of reed-pipes, and contend with the bold strength of their limbs. [40] The fortune that is born along with a man decides in every deed.  And you, Euthymenes from Aegina, have twice fallen into the arms of Victory and attained embroidered hymns.

Plato, Phaedo 94c] in countless other ways?”

“Certainly.”

“Did we not agree in our previous discussion that it could never, if it be a harmony, give forth a sound at variance with the tensions [chalao] and vibrations [psalloito] and other conditions of the elements which compose it, but that it would follow them and never lead them?” and relaxations 

“Yes,” he replied, “we did, of course.”    

“Well then, do we not now find that the soul acts in exactly the opposite way, leading those elements of which it is said to consist and opposing them

Skotos darkness, gloom of th enether world, blindness,

Pindar, Nemean 7. But it is by your favor that, even so, Sogenes the son of Thearion, distinguished by his excellence, is celebrated in song as glorious among pentathletes. [9] For he lives in a city that loves music, the city of the Aeacidae with their clashing spears; [10] and they very much want to foster a spirit familiar with contests. If someone is successful in his deeds, he casts a cause for sweet thoughts into the streams of the Muses. For those great acts of prowess dwell in deep darkness, if they lack songs, and we know of only one way to hold a mirror up to fine deeds: [15] if, by the grace of Mnemosyne with her splendid headdress, one finds a recompense for toils in glorious song. [17] Skillful men know the wind that will come on the day after tomorrow, and they do not suffer loss through the love of gain. The rich man and the poor man alike travel together to the boundary of death.
       [20] And I expect that the story of Odysseus came to exceed his experiences,
       through the sweet songs of Homer, [22] since there is
       a certain solemnity in his lies and winged artfulness, and
       poetic skill deceives,
seducing us with stories,
       and the heart of the mass of men is blind. For if [25] they had been able to see the truth,

Tremô

A. tetremêka EM606.50 :-- tremble, quake, quiver, treme d' ourea makra kai hulê possin hup' athanatoisi Il.13.18 , cf. Call.Del.137; ôlenas tremôn akras quivering in . . , E.IT283; tremousa kôla Id.Med.1169 ; tremei [hê phônê] Arist.Pr.906a17 ; of persons, tremein tên phônên ib.948a35; shiver, in the cold stage of malaria, Hp.Flat.8.

II. esp. tremble with fear, hupo d' etreme guia Il.10.390 , cf. Od.11.527; phobôi, phrikêi t., E.Ion1452 (lyr.), Tr. 1026: then simply, tremble, be afraid, dediôs kai t. D.18.263 ; t. tôi deei ti peisetai Alex.110.6 .

2. c. inf., tremble or fear to do, A.Th. 419 (lyr.), S.OC128 (lyr.); also tremôn ton andr' epheuge mê ktanoi Id.OT947 , cf. E.Andr.808,1057.

3. c. acc., tremble at, fear, S.OC256, E.El.643, etc.; t. to pragma Ar.Ach.494 ; ta pragmata Id.Eq.265 (troch.); to mellon Pl.Prm.137a ; [tês eudaimonias] heneka t. Antipho 2.4.9 ; peri tês eudaimonias Id.2.3.8 , cf. Pl.R.554d. (Cf. Lat. tremo, Lith. trimù, triìmti 'shiver'.)

Remember that Paul identifies the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai as DEMON worship: they joined with the Demons and fell from grace never to get back up until they turned to Christ.

Lifeless Instruments or Carnal Weapons are sourced by Lucifer the singing and harp-playing prostitute in the garden of Eden and the Babylon mother of harlots in Revelation 17 who uses speakers, singers and instrument players called SORCERERS. Anything the devil can do to SPEAK ON HIS OWN or to take your attention away from the knowledge of God is the method of Satanic Agents.

In order to DEFEAT the "castles" of these agents, believers have ONLY the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. If the North Koreans blow trumpets in order to turn you into cowards WHY would you join him and blow trumpets: why wouldn't you keep your eyes and ears open with your WEAPONS aimed and ready with a cool hand.

1 Sam 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

1 Sam 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

Keliy (h3627) kel-ee'; from 3615; something prepared, i. e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon): - armour ([-bearee]), artillery, bag, carriage, / furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, * one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, / psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, / whatsoever.

The same word is used for a WEAPON or a PSALTERY

In 1 Corinthians 14 the LIFELESS INSTRUMENT is also the CARNAL WEAPONS

PAUL SAID THAT WE CANNOT FIGHT THESE POWERS USING MUSICAL WEAPONS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY USE ON THE GODLY PEOPLE. That musical instruments are derived from the Devil is so well accepted that people claim that if they are good enough for the DEVIL then we should use the same instruments. Paul said NO!

1Cor. 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

A Lifeless Instruments has the same meaning as a Carnal weapon. There can be no doubt that musical weapons attack only the flesh.

2 Cor 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2 Cor 10:4 (For the weapons of our WARFARE are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

Sounding brass in 1 Corinthians 13:1 is

Ech-eo , I. intr., sound, ring, peal, êchei de karê . . Olumpou Hes.Th.42 ; hotan achêsêi polios buthos Mosch.Fr.1.4 ; achousi prospolôn cheres E.Supp.72 (lyr.); of metal, êcheeske ho chalkos tês aspidos (round brass shield) Hdt.4.200 ; ta chalkia plêgenta makron êchei Pl.Prt.329a , cf. Men.66.4; of the grasshopper, chirp, Alc.39, Theoc.16.96; of the ears, tingle, êchêsei ta ôta LXX 1 Ki.3.11 ; dia ti êchei ê dia ti emphainetai; impers., of anecho, Arist.AP0.98a27.

Hes.Th.42 Aeschylus. But here come Antigone and Ismene to do their bitter duty, the dirge over their brothers both. With all sincerity, I think, will they [865] pour forth their fitting grief from their lovely, deep-bosomed breasts. But it is right for us, before their singing, to cry out the awful hymn of the Erinys and thereafter [870] sing the hated victory song of Hades.

Euripides Ion. O you, who cause a voice to sing from your seven-stringed lyre, a voice that lets lovely-sounding hymns peal forth in the rustic lifeless horn, [885]  son of Leto, I will blame you before this light. You came to me, your hair glittering with gold, when I was plucking into the folds of my robe yellow flowers [890]  to bloom with golden light; grasping my white hand in yours, you led me to the bed in the cave, hearing me call on my mother, god and consort, [895]  shamelessly paying homage to Aphrodite.  I, the unhappy one, bore you a son, whom in fear of my mother I placed in that bed of yours, [900]  where you joined with me, the miserable, the unfortunate one, in unhappy union. Alas! and now my son and yours, oh cruel one, is gone, torn apart, a feast for birds; [905]  but you are singing to the lyre, chanting hymns.

Heredotus 4.200 [2] The Persians besieged Barce for nine months, digging underground passages leading to the walls, and making violent assaults. As for the tunnels, a blacksmith discovered them by the means of a bronze shield, and this is how he found them: carrying the shield around the inner side of the walls, he struck it against the ground of the city; [3]Persians who were digging underground. Thus the tunnels were discovered, and the assaults were repelled by the townsfolk. all the other places which he struck returned a dull sound; but where there were tunnels, the bronze of the shield rang clear. Here the Barcaeans made a counter-tunnel and killed those Plegenta or plesso

A PLAGUE means to sting with a SCORPION, [Musicians of Abaddon] set in motion, stamp as the character of Kuprios of MUSICAL SOUNDS. Smitten emotionally, of wines, shock and awe. Charakter dogma

Charagma
Rev. 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

2. suffer from noises in the ears, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.40.3.
II. c. acc. cogn., achein (iachein codd.) humnon to let it sound, A.Th.869 (lyr.); kôkuton S.Tr.866 ; goous Id.Fr.523 ; humnous E.Ion883 (lyr.); chalkeon achei sound the cymbal! Theoc.2.36; ephexês êchounta auta (sc. ta phônêenta) Demetr.Eloc.71: --Med., acheisthai tina to sound his praises, dub. in Pi.Fr.75.19:-- Pass., êcheitai ktupos a sound is made, S.OC1500. (Cf. sq.)

A Carnal weapon is hoplon:

Sug-krousis , eôs, hê, collision, anemôn Thphr. Vent.53 ; hoplôn II. in Music, rapid alternation of two notes, trill

hoplon , 2.t he large shield, from which the men-at-arms took their name of hoplitai

2 Cor 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

2 Cor 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

2 Cor 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christs, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christs, even so are we Christs.

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Rulers:

Kosmokrator (g2888) kos-mok-rat'-ore; from 2889 and 2902; a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan: - ruler.

Darknes is:

Skotos (g4655) skot'-os; from the base of 4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (lit. or fig.): - darkness.

Wickedness is:

Poneria (g4189) pon-ay-ree'-ah; from 4190; depravity, i.e. (spec.) malice; plur. (concr.) plots, sins: - iniquity, wickedness.

Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

Epistrepho (g1994) ep-ee-stref'-o; from 1909 and 4762; to revert (lit., fig. or mor.): - come (go) again, convert, (re-) turn (about, again).

Ac.3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Apostrepho (g654) ap-os-tref'-o; from 575 and 4762; to turn away or back (lit. or fig.): - bring again, pervert, turn away (from).

These HIGH places are celestial or ABOVE the sky.

1Co. 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

1Co.15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Choikos (g5517) kho-ik-os'; from 5522; dusty or dirty (soil- like), i.e. (by impl.) terrene: - earthy.
Cikkuwth (g5522) sik-kooth'; fem. of 5519 [a multitude] ; an (idolatrous) booth: - tabernacle.

Am.5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Am. 6:1 WOE to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came

Am. 6:4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Am. 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Ge.3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Aphar (h6083) aw-fawr'; from 6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence clay, earth, mud: - ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.

1Co. 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having DONE (g2716) all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

1Th 5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
1Th.5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
1Th. 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Th. 5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1Th. 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1Th. 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Poneros (g4190) pon-ay-ros'; from a der. of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (prop. in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); fig. calamitous; also (pass.) ill, i.e. diseased; but espec. (mor.) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neut. (sing.) mischief, malice or (plur.) guilt; masc. (sing.) the devil, or (plur.) sinners: - bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked (-ness). See also 4191.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Sword is:
Machair-a 4. metaph., dia machairôn kai puros [Pur=fire=sacrificial] Zen.3.19 , cf. Posidipp.1.10; m. tou pneumatos Ep.Eph.6.17 , cf. LXX Is.49.2.
Isa XLIXWEB. Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name: [2] and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close: [3] and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. [4] But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.

The WORD of God here is not the LOGOS but that which He SPOKE and commanded that we speak and "teach that which has been taught."

John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the WORDS that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE.

The WORD which is the sword of the Spirit is:

Rhema (g4487) hray'-mah; from 4482; an utterance (individ., collect. or spec.); by impl. a matter or topic (espec. of narration, command or dispute); with a neg. naught whatever: - / evil, / nothing, saying, word.

Ro.10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Ac.10:37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Ro.10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

DIRECT COMMAND FOR WHAT CALLED A "SYNAGOGUE."

Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
 
Col 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.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
         and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Eph 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel.
Eph 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

In Ephesians 4 the purpose of the assembly was:

Eph. 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:
Eph. 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; 

G417 anemos an'-em-os From the base of G109 ; wind; (plural) by implication (the four) quarters (of the earth): .. wind.

Anemos [Root !an, cf. aêmi] wind, Hom., etc.; anemou kationtos a squall having come on, Thuc.; an. kata borean hestêkôs the wind being settled in the north, id=Thuc.; anemois pheresthai paradounai ti to cast a thing to the winds, Lat. ventis tradere, Eur.:--Hom. and Hes. mention only four winds, Boreas, Eurus, Notus (or Argestes), Zephyrus; Arist. gives twelve, which served as points of the compass.

Thucydides 3. XXII. when their preparations were completed, they waited for a stormy night of wind and rain and without any moon, and then set out, guided by the authors of the enterprise. Crossing first the ditch that ran round the town, they next gained the wall of the enemy unperceived by the sentinels, who did not see them in the darkness, or hear them, as the wind drowned with its roar the noise of their approach; [2] besides which they kept a good way off from each other, that they might not be betrayed by the clash of their weapons. They were also lightly equipped, and had only the left foot shod to preserve them from slipping in the mire.

Psoph-os , ho, noise (prop. of one thing striking against another, Arist.de An.420a21; or of insects, which produce a sound, but not by the larynx, Id.HA535a28; opp. phônê, Id.de An.420b29, HA535b31, al.; psophos monon [to sigma] Pl.Tht.203b, cf. Lg.669d, Aristox. ap. D.H.Comp.14); first in h.Merc.285, ater psophou; glôssês ps. E. HF229 ; philêmatôn S.Fr.537; psophoi anemôn Pl.R.397a ; of rolling stones, X.An.4.2.4; of footsteps, psophôi tôi ek tou prosienai autous antipatagountos tou anemou Th.3.22 , cf. Hdt.7.218; of knocking at a door, Ar.Ra.604 (lyr.), Pl.Smp.212c; cf. psopheô 11 ; crash of a falling building, Th.4.115; also of musical instruments, lôtou, kitharas, E.Ba.687 [Complete Bacchae], Cyc.443; of a trumpet, Paus.2.21.3.

E.Ba.687 Bacchae . All were asleep, their bodies relaxed, some resting their backs against pine foliage, [685]  others laying their heads at random on the oak leaves, modestly, not as you say drunk with the goblet and the sound of the flute, [ôinômenas kratêri kai lôtou psophôi] hunting [therao] out Aphrodite through the woods in solitude.

Kat-auleô A. charm by flute-playing, tinos Pl.Lg.790e, cf. R.411a; tina Alciphr.2.1: metaph., se . . -êsô phobôi 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, Posidon.10 J., cf. Call.Fr.10.3 P., Phld.Mus.p.49 K.

Tropaia (sc. pnoê), hê, II. metaph., lêmatos, phrenos tropaia, a change in the spirit of one's heart or mind, A.Th.706, Ag.219 (both lyr.); but t. kakôn a change from, release from . . , Id.Ch.775. 

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Chorus

But when he had donned the yoke of Necessity, with veering of mind, [220] impious, unholy, unsanctified, from that moment he changed his intention and began to conceive that deed of uttermost audacity. For wretched delusion, counsellor of ill, primal source of woe, makes mortals bold. So then he hardened his heart to sacrifice his daughter [225] so that he might further a war waged to avenge a woman, and as an offering for the voyage of a fleet!

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics

Again, let us grant that the work of the spirit is to cause life, and that being alive is employment and being awake (for sleep is a kind of inactivity and rest); with the consequence that since the work of the spirit and that of its goodness are necessarily one and the same, the work of goodness would be good life. Therefore this is the perfect good, which as we saw is happiness. And it is clear from the assumptions laid down (for we said that happiness is the greatest good and that the Ends or the greatest of goods are in the spirit, but things in the spirit are either a state or an activity) that, since an activity is a better thing than a disposition and the best activity than the best state, and since goodness is the best state, the activity of goodness is the spirit's greatest good. But also we saw that the greatest good is happiness.

Therefore happiness is the activity of a good spirit. And since we saw1 that happiness is something perfect, and life is either perfect or imperfect, and the same with goodness (for some goodness is a whole and some a part), but the activity of imperfect things is imperfect, it would follow that happiness is an activity of perfect life in accordance with perfect goodness.

Eph 6:21 But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
Eph 6:22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.
Eph 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; 
        the flesh profiteth nothing: the WORDS that I speak unto you, 
        they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE.

The WORD which is the sword of the Spirit is:

Rhema (g4487) hray'-mah; from 4482; an utterance (individ., collect. or spec.); by impl. a matter or topic (espec. of narration, command or dispute); with a neg. naught whatever: - / evil, / nothing, saying, word.

Ro.10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Ac.10:37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Ro.10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

DIRECT COMMAND FOR WHAT CALLED A "SYNAGOGUE."

Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Satan is the adversary and a liar from the beginning: Jesus said that the sons of the devil speak on their own.

Whey they lie about every "instrument" hint in the Bible and plan to sow discord to impose that which attracks and disgusts like a bull fight, this is the SOUNDS in Revelation 18 that the CANDLES have been removed: the seven Spirits that rested on Jesus were all related to Divine knowledge.

Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

H3619 kelûb kel-oob' From the same as H3611 ; a bird trap (as furnished with a clapstick or treadle to spring it); hence a basket (as resembling a wicker cage):—basket, cage.

H3611 keleb keh'-leb From an unused root meaning to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog.

The same lusted after fruits used by the Babylon mother of harlots has the same meaning: when they invade the worship IN SPIRIT even though Paul warned you NOT to let them in, it is a MARK of the wolves and God will NOT pass by them again for ever more.
God said I will NOT worry about them any more. You remember when Samuel grieved over Saul David had been sent as a cunning harp player to drive him in and out of madness and God said DO NOT WORRY ABOUT SAUL ANY MORE.

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