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Does Eph 5:19 refer to Psalm 108:1?
(Eph 5:19 ESV) addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody to the Lord with YOUR heart,
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs |
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual(God's) songs, |
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for I will not hear the |
singing (to the Lord) |
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melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23 |
AND making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:19 |
In the Psalms it is usually David saying, as John T. Willis
Missed the point as do others who missed LATIN.
Psalm 27:6: "I will sing and make melody to the Lord."
No doubt that John T. and all of his mislead BELIEVES that by
imposing instruments they are TRIUMPHING over their ENEMIES.
Psalm 27:6 And now shall MINE
head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in
his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will
sing praises unto the LORD.
dīco Jesus and the apostles SPOKE a HYMN which is a PRAYERIn Psalm 33 (32) this is a PSALM OF DAVID who would be executed if he sang in the inner court.
11] Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
Psalm 31.11 laetamini in Domino et exultate iusti et gloriamini omnes recti corde
Psalm 32.1 vulgate psalmus David exultate iusti in Domino rectos decet laudatio
In the Ekklesia-synagogue School of Christ the command is for YOU
adontes kai psallontes tē kardia humōn tō kuriō, In his heart, your
The Latin is HO meaning "here or there": IN the place of the human heart, spirit or mind
Ho personal pronoun “pēgē hē men eis auton IN himself humeteros of each of you your own mind,
la^l-eō ,
legō 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.
lŏquor , to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 10; 11, 3, 45).
1. To speak out, to say, tell, talk about, mention, utter, name: “loquere tuum mihi nomen,”
2. To talk of, speak about, to have ever on one's lips:
A. To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly:
dīco ,
II. Transf., i. q. intellego, Gr. phēmi, to mean so and so; it may sometimes be rendered in English by namely, to wit:
to say, tell, mention, relate, affirm, declare, state; to mean, intend (for syn. cf.: for, loquor, verba facio, dicto, dictito, oro, inquam, aio, fabulor, concionor, pronuntio, praedico, recito, declamo, affirmo, assevero, contendo;
NEVER SING OR PLAY
ANTITHESIS: dicar Princeps Aeolium carmen [enchantment] ad Italos Deduxisse modos,” Hor. Od. 3, 30, 10 al.: “ they say that I,
Aeŏlĭus , Pertaining to Æolus, the god of the winds, or to his posterity; Euri, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 29: “venti,”
Sappho, as a Lesbian woman, Hor. C. 4, 9, 12: carmen, a Sapphic or Alcaic ode, id. ib. 4, 3, 12; cf.: “Aeoliis fidibus querentem Sappho,” id. ib. 2, 13, 24; “lyra,” Ov. H. 15, 200: “plectrum,” Prop. 2, 3, 19.
spīrĭtālis divinely) supernatural,
Psallo never means more than pluck or smite a string or hair with your FINGER but NEVER with a
“plectrum, It is a violation of the LAWS of language to use a guitar pick, blow a flute, play a piano.
Jay
Guin: As Bruce points out, the parallel
is particularly clear when you compare the Greek of the New
Testament with the Greek of the Septuagint (LXX), a Greek
translation of the Old Testament often quoted by Paul.
God
did not command the king, kingdom, temple, sacrificial
system or the Jacob-cursed and God-Abandoned Levites. God
turned them over to worship the Starry host BECAUSE of
musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God gave them kings in His
anger to carry out the captivity and death sentence. The
Levites were under the King and Commanders of the army: they
chanted PANIC songs or boast songs to turn the enemy
cowards.
The tabulation of musical passages "contains a rather disproportionate number of metaphorical sentences, where music or its instruments are not to be understood literally but are used as similies or rhetorical figures. The most celebrated of these poetical passages is Paul's glorification of love in I Cor. 13." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 466).
Psalmos also appears in the LXX as equivalent to the Hebrew word neginah. This Hebrew term is used to describe a wide variety of songs. Neginah is translated by psalmos in Lam 3:14 (song), in Lam 5:14 (music) and in Ps 69:12 (song). It is striking to observe that in the LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or its verbal form, is used for songs that are not only uninspired but are in fact the product of the wicked, even drunkards, who mocked God and His word. The Hebrew term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures of: the songs of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the inspired praise of God, Psalm 61 title (Neginah-a song performed on a stringed instrument); and the uninspired praise of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah, Is 38:20 (my songs).
"Some of the psalms express a tribalistic hatred of foreign powers; even the beautiful laments of the exiles 'by the waters of Babylon,' for example, concludes with the assurance that the daughter of Babylon will be destroyed. 'Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth the little ones against the stones.'"But in nearly a third of the collection the 'enemies' whose death the psalmist so confidently prays for and anticipates are not Gentile nations,
but individual Jews who do not share the religious conviction of the Hasidim (Pharisees). In the words of Psalm 58, 'the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, Gods and Men The Origins of Western Culture, p. 134, Knopf)
"Its (pipe = to love passionately) was apparently a secular instrument and is never listed in the temple orchestra;
only in Ps. 150:4 it is mentioned in a religious (but not ritual) function.
Its ethos was not blameless at all, ase we see from Genesis Rabbah 50: 'The angels said to Lot: 'There are players of the pipe (organ) in the country, hence it ought to be destroyed.'" Its rabbinical identification with the aboda, the flute of the notorious Syrian bayaderes, emphasizes the erotic element which already the Hebrew name suggests." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 460, Abingdon).
"Only in Ps 150:3 is it (shophar) mentioned with most of the other really musical instruments. Hence, we must conclude that the function of the shophar was to make noise ; be it of earthly or of eschatological character, but not to make music.
After the destruction of the temple and the general banishment of all instrumental music,
the shophar alone survived, just because it was not a musical instrument." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 473, Abingdon).The timbrel "was aa typical women's instrument. It is mentioned seventimes in the OT; thus it must have been very popular. Although it occurs in the Psalter and in religious hymns (Exod 15; Jer. 31:4),
it was not permitted in the temple. Its function in the Bible was restricted to secular or religious frolicking, cultic dances, or processions (e. g., II Sam. 6:5; 1I Chr. 13:4; Ps. 68:25). Its absence in the temple ritual was possible due to the strong female symbolism, which always accompanied the tambourine, and which made its use so popular at all fertility rites." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 474, Abingdon).
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.
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.); leap, bound, quiver, quake, phrena deimati pallôn S.OT153 (lyr.); dash along, of horses, E.El.477 (lyr.).
Pindar, Nemean 5[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, [Abaddon, Apollyon] sweeping the seven-tongued lyre with a golden plectrum,[25] led all types of strains. And the Muses [sorcerers Rev 18] began with a prelude to Zeus, then sang first of divine Thetis and of Peleus; how Hippolyte, the opulent daughter of Cretheus, wanted to trap him with deceit. With elaborate planning she persuaded her husband, the watcher of the Magnesians, to be a partner in her plot, and she forged a false story;[30] that Peleus had made an attempt on her[31] in Acastus' own bed. But the opposite was true; for she often begged him and coaxed him with all her heart, but her reckless words provoked his temper.
Euripides Ion:
Look, what strange bird comes onwards; wouldst thou fix
But see, the early birds have left their nests,
And this way from Parnassus wing their flight.
Come not, I charge you, near the battlements,
Nor near the golden dome. Herald of Jove,
Strong though thy beak beyond the feather'd kind,
My bow shall reach thee. Towards the altar, see,
A swan comes sailing: elsewhere wilt thou move
Thy scarlet-tinctured foot? or from my bow
[160] The lyre of Phoebus [Abaddon, Apollyon] to thy notes attuned [sunoidos]
Will not protect thee; farther stretch thy wings;
Go, wanton, skim along the Delian lake,
Or wilt thou steep thy melody in blood.
Beneath the battlements thy straw-built nest?
My singing bow shall drive thee hence; begone,
Or to the banks of Alpheus, gulfy stream,
Or to the Isthmian grove; there hatch thy young;
She said, and from her quiver chose with speed
The winged shaft, predestin'd for the deed;
Then to the stubborn yew her strength applied,
Till the far distant horns approach'd on either side.
The bowstring touch'd her breast, so strong she drew;
Whizzing in air the fatal arrow flew.At once the twanging bow and sounding dart
The conqu'ring damsel, with expanded wings,
The traitor heard, and felt the point within his heart.
Him, beating with his heels in pangs of death,
His flying friends to foreign fields bequeath.
The welcome message to her mistress brings.
Paul
almost always uses ANTITHETICAL PARALLELISM. Did Jesus die
in vain to destroy the Jews Covenant with Death and
Hell. Reading 101a shows that people cannot read
BLACK text on BROWN Paper:
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words:
FOR because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.This Eve, on account of her having been in the beginning deceived by the serpent, and become the author of sin, the wicked demon, who also is called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, and who works even to this day in those men that are possessed by him, invokes as Eve.58 And he is called "demon" and "dragon," on account of his revolting from God. For at first he was an angel. And concerning his history there is a great deal to be said; wherefore I at present omit the relation of it, for I have also given an account of him in another place.
58 Referring to the bacchanalian orgies [WRATH] in which " Eva " was shouted, and which the Fathers professed to believe was an unintentional invocation of Eve, the authoress of all sin.
The word "abomination" is also key to understanding the context. In Hebrew, the word "to 'evah," (abomination) is almost invariably linked to idolatry. In the passages from which both verses are taken, God tells Moses to tell the people not to follow the idolatrous practices of the people around them, people who sacrificed their children to Molech, or who masturbated into the fire to offer their semen to Molech, for example. Chapter 20 starts off with the same warning.
"To 'evah" also means "something which is ritually unclean."
Clement Exhortation to the Heathen
THE MARK OF LUCIFER as LIGHT or SOUND: HALAL or PRAISE
And what if I go over the mysteries? I will not divulge them in mockery, as they say Alcibiades did, but I will expose right well by the word of truth the sorcery hidden in them; and those so-called gods of yours, whose are the mystic rites,
- I shall display, as it were, on the stage of life, to the spectators of truth. The bacchanals hold their orgies in honour of the frenzied Dionysus, celebrating their sacred frenzy by the eating of raw flesh, and go through the distribution of the parts of butchered victims, you must eat my flesh crowned with snakes, shrieking out the name of that Eva by whom error came into the world. [Eve or Zoe]
The symbol of the Bacchic orgies. is a consecrated serpent. Moreover, according to the strict interpretation of the Hebrew term, the name Hevia (Eve), aspirated, signifies a female serpent.
Ephesians 5: 8 FOR ye were sometimes darkness,
BUT now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Ephesians 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
BUT rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Ephesians 5:13 BUT all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools,
BUT as wise,
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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;
Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
[BUT] singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Paul commands that
we SPEAK to others which is the opposite of ODE
David says I will
SING
SPEAKING to yourselves (or one another) in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual songs.
In Romans 15 the command is to speak that which is written for our learning
The Psalmists always speaks of " I" will
Psa. 108:1 O God, my heart is fixed;
I will sing and give praise, even with MY glory.
Psa. 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake early.
Psa. 108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people:
and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
David praised his god that he could put
his boot on the necks of the Gentiles to shed their blood.
Jesus praised God His Father that He could shed His blood
FOR the nations.
Zamar h2167 can INCLUDE touching the parts of a musical instrument or to give forth praise: The writer chose to say I will SING my praises. Singing TO a harp or lyre does not mean four part harmony but matching his voice to the single tone at a time.
It's a very good
thing that neither David nor Jay even went into the inner
court as the slaughter pit, much less into what they called
a "holy" place. The command of God was that the
Levites must execute you for being presumptious.
The Command of
Jesus was to glorify God by GOING out among the nations and
teaching what HE commanded to be taught.
Jay Guin: The Psalms he refers to are —
Psalm 27:6b I will sing and make melody TO the LORD.
David says nothing about TEACHING the PSALMS one to another. David says what all musical performers boast of making WORSHIP WARS to "make the lambs dumb and dead before the slaughter."
Psalm 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will SING, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Males were priests but they had to PERFORM THE ROLES OF WOMEN.
See The Androgynous Worship leader The EPHOD
See how David's prophesying with instruments let him to going naked with the camp-following girls.
H7891 shiyr used in (1 Sam. 18:6 ); a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy)
H7788 shûr shoor A primitive root; properly to turn, that is, travel about (as a harlot or a merchant):—go, sing. See also H7891 .1Sam. 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
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Moreover, we must take into consideration the facts that the compass of the tenor extends even into the soprano, that the singers were of different ages down to twenty years of age, and that Oriental, and more particularly even Jewish, song is fond of falsetto singing. We therefore adopt Perret- Gentil's rendering, chant avec voix de femmes, and still more readily Armand de Mestral's, en soprano; whereas Melissus' rendering, "upon musical instruments called Alamoth (the Germans would say, upon the virginal)," has nothing to commend it.
OF THE NEW WINESKINS
This, according to myth, was the first manifestation of dionysus, benefactor of mankind, giver of good things.
"dionysus's worship is thus established by the simple means of killing the opposition. It has been suggested that every tragic hero who suffers and dies on stage at the Dionysia, the great dramatic festival at Athens (of the South?), is in fact dionysus himself, being killed."
In the Eleusian mysteries, the wine was not noted for its alcohol but for drugs perhaps from fermented barley or from mushrooms used to bring on the exhilaration. Of the priest, it is said that:
"As he performed the service, he intoned ancient chants in a falsetto voice, for his role in the Mystery was asexual, a male who had sacrificed his gender to the Great Goddess. Resource
"All honor to that king of the Scythians, whoever Anacharsis was, who shot with an arrow one of his subjects who imitated among the Scythians the mystery of the Mother of the gods, as practiced by the inhabitants of Cyzicus, beating a drum and sounding a cymbal strung from his neck like a priest of Cybele, "condemning him as having become effeminate am ong the Greeks, and a teacher of the disease of effeminancy to the rest of the Cythians." (Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, II, p. 177).
SOWING OF DISCORD: ALWAYS
1Sam. 18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1Sam. 18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand.
1Sam. 18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
► H5059 nâgan naw-gan' A primitive root; prop to thrum, that is, beat a tune with the fingers;
especially to play on a stringed instrument;
hence (generally) to make music:—player on instruments,
sing to the stringed instruments,
melody, ministrel, play (-er. -ing).
H5060 nâga‛ naw-gah' A primitive root; properly to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.
Ps 57:7b-8a I will sing and make melody! 8 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
HOPLON Euripides-Ion
- O thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd lyre
- Sweet notes, that from the rustic lifeless horn
- Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,
- Son of Latona, thee before this light
- Will I reprove. Thou camest to me, with gold
- Thy locks all glittering, as the vermeil flowers
- And now my son and thine, ill-fated babe,
- Is rent by ravenous vultures; thou, meanwhile,
- Art to thy lyre attuning strains of joy.
We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'arousers," sang every morning this verse from Ps 44: 'Awake, Lord, awake! Do not abandon us for ever." The Talmud tells us that Johy Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom.
A similar practice is attested in connection with the cult of Herakles-Melkart. According to Menander, as he is quoted by Josephus, the king Hiram, who was a contemporary of Solomon, rebuilt the temples of Tyre and, 'he was the first to celebrate the awakening of Heracles in the month of Peritius." (de Vaux, p. 247)
In an inscription from Cyprus, in one from Rhodes and in several from around the district of Carthage, there are references to important personages who bear the title Mqm"lm which we can translate as 'arouser of the god." (de Vaux, p. 247).
Euripides-Ion
- O thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd lyre
- Sweet notes, that from the rustic lifeless horn
- Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,
- Son of Latona, thee before this light
- Will I reprove. Thou camest to me, with gold
- Thy locks all glittering, as the vermeil flowers
- And now my son and thine, ill-fated babe,
- Is rent by ravenous vultures; thou, meanwhile,
- Art to thy lyre attuning strains of joy.
Jay Guin: Ps
108:1b-2a I will sing and make melody with all my being!
2 Awake, O harp and lyre! I
will awake the dawn!
Psa. 108:10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and no longer go out with our armies?
12 Give us aid against the enemy,
for the help of man is worthless.
13 With God we will gain the victory,
and he will trample down our enemies.Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image,
and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Habakkuk 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.
If David went INTO the temple (other than when starving) he would be executed
Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Sileo to be noiseless, still, or silent, to keep silence; act., not to speak of, to keep silent respecting a thing (class.; stronger than tacere). I. Transf., to be still or quiet (OPPOSITE. to being in action), to remain inactive, to rest, cease (in class. prose, for the most part only of things; cf. “quiesco): et cycnea mele Phoebeaque [Abaddon] Carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent,” Lucr. 2, 506: “silent diutius Musae Varronis quam solebant,
carmen Incantation, . In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental
modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,” Ov. M. 11, 317; cf. “vocum,” id. ib. 12, 157: “per me (sc. Apollinem) concordant carmina nervis, “citharae liquidum carmen,”“lyrae carmen,” “barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara: 4. A response of an oracle, a prophecy, prediction: “ 5. A magic formula, an incantation:Ăpollo , ĭnis (earlier Ăpello , also god of the healing art; and since he communicated oracles in verse, god of poetry and music, presiding over the Muses, lass. period of the arts, represented with weapons, the cithara, a crown of laurel, etc., with hair commonly flowing down upon his neck,
Jay Guin: The
last two have express references to instruments. The
first does not. In Eph 5:19, it certainly appears that Paul is
paraphrasing the repeated phrase “Sing and make melody.”
The NEW TESTAMENT
is ANTITHETICAL to the Monarchy to which God ABANDONED
Israel and their "covenant with death and hell."
All three are literally “I will sing (ado) and I will pluck (an instrument) (psallo) to the Lord.” The translation of psallo as “pluck” (an instrument) in the LXX is not controversial, but the LXX is centuries older than the NT, and psallo came to mean “sing” by the First Century — indicating neither the use nor absence of an instrument.
FALSE:
The translators of the Septuagint used the PSAO type words
to translate the MIZMORS because they knew that
PSALLO was an Apollo (Abaddon or Apollyon) word
meaning to MAKE LITERAL WAR:
Psallo and SOP
have the same root meaning. Never in recorded history does
Psallo ever mean MUSICAL melody. You may blaspheme the
Spirit and call Paul ignorant by not being aware that you
ALWAYS:
Need and use Three
words to define [1] singing
and [2] plucking
(psallo) and a [3] harp.
Or if you have attended elementary school in Greece or at
the synagogue you know that you need COMPOUND WORDS none of
which are used in the Bible. That makes GOD or the
MUSICAL discorders out on a broken limb.
Apollo received a
Lyre (Liar) from infant Hermes (Mercury or KIROS) after
Hermes stole Apollo's cattle (members) by causing them to
WALK BACKWARD by using his harp he made from a turtle while
still in his crib. He is the Jubal character who
handled musical instruments without authority to STEAL other
people's property.
He made his bow
string TWANG to send forth a SINGING arrow
into the literal heart of anyone who did not SUBMIT.
He used his LYRE (liar, hermes, kairos) to shoot
forth LOVE ARROWS into his male or female
"converts."
He is the Lucifer character Christ called "The singing and
Harp-Playing prostitute in the Garden of Eden.
Apollo or Hercules (at Tyre) was the father
of religious music and homosexual love. See 2
Maccabees
All religious music MARKS the effeminate or worse.
That's is trying to replace the Spirit OF Christ: Paul said what he meant after--always--silencing the cunning craftsmen or sophists meaning self-speakers, singers and instruments. Just back in Ephesians 4 Paul commanded any APT elders to silence or eject any performers because they are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
The fact is I will
pluck (psallo) an instrument. Psallo means PLUCK. Be
careful what you PLUCK.
Eph 5:19 in Greek is —
sing (ado) and sing/make melody/pluck an instrument (psallo) to the Lord.
That Paul is referencing the Psalms is unmistakable.
What is the impact of the parallels with the Psalms?
Now, we can make this argument –
1. Paul clearly echoes these three Psalms.
2. Two of the three psalms have explicit references to instruments.
3. There are no explicit references to instruments in Ephesians, other than “in the heart” (en tE kardia), which is not “with the heart” but “in the heart.”
But …
4. Ps 107 LXX (= English Ps 108) refers
to singing and playing “in (en) my glory (doxE).”
The use of “glory” here sounds odd to Western ears, but
“glory” refers to the nature of God, man is made in the image
of God, and so the Septuagint translators use “glory” to refer
to the psalmist’s truest, deepest self. Thus, English
translations say things like “in my soul” or “in my inner
being,” and these are also true to the Hebrew text.
Psa. 108:1 O God, my heart is
fixed; I
will sing and give praise,
even with [in] my glory.
mĕus I am myself, in my right senses: my own master, free, carnifex,
glōrĭa , fame, renown, praise, honor, subjectively, thirst or passion for glory, ambition; vainglory, pride, vaunting, boasting, vain boastings,
David is abandoned
to worship the starry host: Dawn is the Mother of
Lucifer. David is certain that he has the power to
worship IN THE FIRMAMENT and even AROUSE God Himself.
Psa. 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself
will awake early.
HOPLON Euripides-Ion
Attendant on the king, his high behests
I execute. To Delphi am I come,
This land where Phoebus [Abaddon, Apollyon] from his central throne
Utters to mortals his high strain, declaring
The present and the future; this is the cause;
- O thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd lyre
- Sweet notes, that from the rustic lifeless horn
- Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,
- Son of Latona, thee before this light
- Will I reprove. Thou camest to me, with gold
- Thy locks all glittering, as the vermeil flowers
- And now my son and thine, ill-fated babe,
- Is rent by ravenous vultures; thou, meanwhile,
- Art to thy lyre attuning strains of joy.
ION chanting
[82] Now flames this radiant chariot of the sun
High o'er the earth, at whose ethereal fire
The stars into the sacred night retreat:
2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.2 Kings 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun,
We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'arousers," sang every morning this verse from Ps 44: 'Awake, Lord, awake! Do not abandon us for ever." The Talmud tells us that Johy Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom.
at the entering in of the house of the Lord,
by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the sun with fire
Psa. 108: 3
I will praise thee, O LORD,
among the people:
and
I will sing praises
unto thee among the nations.
Psa. 108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens:
and thy truth
reacheth unto the clouds.
Psa. 108:5 Be
thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
and thy glory above
all the earth;
But Paul could not say “in my glory” because –
* “Glory” would not sound to the Ephesian Greeks like “soul” or “inner being.”
Glory would sound like a pontificating preaching pastor who struts upon the stage or a "worship team" knowing that everyone will give their attention ot worship to them.
* Paul carefully uses “glory” in his writings to refer to God’s presence and OUR celebration of God — not the inner being of the Christian.
Paul commanded ODE
and PSALLO IN (en, eis) the heart, mind or INNER
BEING. If you cannot grasp prepositions you should not
be claiming to be an angel of light. Jesus said that
the Kingdom is INSIDE OF US and it does not come with
OBSERVATION meaning with HUMAN CELEBRATIONS like David of
his OW GLORY.
PAUL WAS NOT A TYPICAL TYRANNICAL ORIENTAL POTENTATE: THAT'S WHY HE NEVER SANG AND PLAYED A HARP.
Paul commanded that the ONLY WAY to Glorify God was with another DIRECT COMMAND that we STOP the self-pleasure which includes rhetoric, singing, playing an instrument or ACTING OUT.2Cor. 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
2Cor. 12:5 Of such an one will I glory:
yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
2Cor. 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth:
but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
2Cor. 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Romans 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.
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, [one Theos]
even the Father of our Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ.
And so Paul replaces “glory” with
“heart.” But the passages are otherwise parallel: “in (en)
my glory” and “in (en) your heart.”
AGAIN:
Psa. 108:1 O God, my heart is
fixed; I
will sing and give praise,
even with [in] my glory.
mĕus I am myself, in my right senses: my own master, free, carnifex,
glōrĭa , fame, renown, praise, honor, subjectively, thirst or passion for glory, ambition; vainglory, pride, vaunting, boasting, vain boastings,
5. The other Psalms don’t offer a similar parallel, so we conclude Paul was quoting Ps 108.
This is the Psalm in context (CEV) —
We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'arousers," sang every morning this verse from Ps 44: 'Awake, Lord, awake! Do not abandon us for ever." The Talmud tells us that Johy Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom.1Our God, I am faithful to you with all my heart, and you can trust me.
I will sing and play music for you with all that I am.2I will start playing my harps before the sun rises.
3I will praise you, LORD, for everyone to hear;
I will sing hymns to you in every nation.4Your love reaches higher than the heavens,
and your loyalty extends beyond the clouds.
The meaning of psallo
David plainly has instruments in mind. Not all translations pick up the sense of psallo plainly, but the meaning is conceded even by conservative members of the Churches of Christ, such as Wayne Jackson in the Christian Courier –
The Septuagint (LXX) is a Greek translation of the Old Testament that dates from the 3rd century B.C. In this production,
psallois used to represent three different Hebrew words. The term may be used to denote simply the playing of an instrument (1 Sam. 16:16). It may bear the sense of singing, accompanied by an instrument (as certain contexts reveal – cf. Psa. 27:6; 98:5 – Eng. versions). Or, the word may refer to vocal music alone (cf. Psa. 135:3; 138:1; 146:2).
1 Sam 16:15 And Sauls servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit FROM the God troubleth thee.
1 Sam 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man,
who is a [1] cunning [2] player on an [3] harp: and it shall come to pass,
when the evil spirit FROM the God is upon thee, that he shall play [psallo] with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
Scientem LEGALIST to have knowledge of or skill in any thing, de legibus, de bello and that she was skilled in music,
Jesus gave APT elders who will be MARKED by ejecing the cunning craftsmen or sophists (speakers, singers, instrument players following LAWS) because THEY ARE LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE.
SPIRITUS in Latin points directly to APOLLO (Apollyon) as the LEADER OF THE MUSES.
Psallo means to pluck or smite a string or hair WITH YOUR FINGERS but never WITH A PLECTRUM. You lie about "psallo" if you use it to sow discord with a flute player, drummer, guitar pick etal.
1 Sam 16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit FROM the God was upon Saul,
that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, [Could breath freely]
and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
David was a CUNNING or Scientific player on the harp. Harps have to be played by nosmos OR LAWS: musical performance is legalistic from beginning to end. He could sooth (soothsay) to calm Saul or drive him into madness.
psallere meaning to PLAY or SMITE something.
Cithara guitar, lute, stringed instrument, the art of playing on the cithara,
THEREFORE FALSE
Psa 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up ABOVE mine ENEMIES round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
ZAMAR h2167 does not MEAN something but it can be used like "pruning your vines" as in a pruning hook which made a tinkling sound or it could be to TOUCH the parts of an instrument. It could mean to play an instrument, give praise or sing forth. The translator did not see a HARP.
canto Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument)
Less frequently of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument (cf. cano) “tibiis tubă, “calamo,”
cănōrus A. Of men: “canorus orator et volubilis et satis acer,” Cic. Brut. 27, 105: “turba,”
A. Of speech, rapid, fluent, voluble (the figure taken from rolling
C. Of instruments: “fides,” Verg. A. 6, 120; Hor. C. 1, 12, 11: “aes, i. e. tubae,” Verg. A. 9, 503; Ov. M. 3, 704: “chelys,” Sen. Troad. 325: “fila lyrae,”
These words NEVER include an instrument unless they are NAMED.
Following Jackson’s lead, we investigate the Hebrew text of the Psalm. The Hebrew word is uazmre, the root of which is zamar. Strong’s gives the definition –
A primitive root (perhaps ident. With zamar through the idea of striking with the fingers); properly, to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e. Play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music — give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
These words never
MEAN something: All that scholars can do is tell you how a
word is used in real historical literature. Zamar is
connected to the pruning hook which made a ringing sound as
someone STOLE YOUR VINES.
ZAMAR is almost
always meant as SINGING A PSALM: If an instrument is named
it is IN ADDITION to Zamar.
And, of course, Jackson cites Ps 27:6 — one the three parallels to Eph 5:19 — as using psallo in the sense of singing accompanied by an instrument. As Jackson notes, the context of these parallels makes the conclusion unmistakeable.
Is Paul rejecting instruments or endorsing instruments or neither?
So … does the fact that Paul omits the
references to harps and lyres in Eph 5:19 imply that Paul is
rejecting instruments? I don’t think so, for two reasons.
BACK TO READING
101 WHICH IS NOT A SKILL AVALIABLE TO ANY ONE WHO QUESTIONS
THE WORD.
SPEAK
Psalms, hymns or spiritual songs (all inspired) or SPEAK
that which is written for our learning:
ANTITHESIS: Sing (Ode) and Psallo (never musical
melody) IN the HEART (a place and therefore SILENT)
LEXIS is the
OPPOSITE of ODE and ODE is the opposite of LEXIS
Lexis is a LOGOS word which is "the will of the
Lord" or the Regulative Principle OPPOSITE to rhetoric,
singing or playing.
ALL real musical terms or names of instruments define SORCERY
or WITCHCRAFT. The speakers, singers and instrument players
in Revelation 18 are called SORCERERS and the will
be CAST ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF
FIRE.
Psallo does not mean to play a harp. Psallo means to smite a string or hair with your fingers but NEVER with a plectrum. You violate common sense if you use a guitar pick, blow a flute or beat on a drum. Psallo put ODE and PSALLO in the heart or SILENT. Even in the Old Testament Passages there is no hint that David was playing any instrument FOR AN AUDIENCE of even ONE MEMBER.
Psallo does not
mean to play a harp. Psallo means to smite a string or hair
with your fingers but NEVER with a plectrum. You
violate common sense if you use a guitar pick, blow a flute
or beat on a drum. Psallo put ODE and PSALLO in the
heart or SILENT. Even in the Old Testament Passages there is
no hint that David was playing any instrument FOR AN
AUDIENCE of even ONE MEMBER.
1Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels,
and have not charity, I
am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal.
La^l-eō ,Mark of the Locusts
II. chatter, Opposite. articulate speech, as of locusts, chirp, Theoc.5.34; mesēmbrias lalein tettix (sc. eimi), a very grasshopper to chirp at midday,III. of musical sounds, “aulō [flute] laleō” Theoc.20.29; of trees, v.supr.1.2; “di'aulou [flute] ē salpiggos l.”[trumpet] Arist. Aud.801a29; of Echo, magadin lalein sound the magadis, [double flute]
-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. in Pass., [ton monochordon kanona] parechein tais aisthêsesi . . 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
Second, Paul uses the very same Greek
verbs for “sing” and “play music” found
in Ps 108.
The first word, ado,
means “sing” (not a cappella and not instrumental,
just “sing”).
False: ADO
or ODE is never used with an instrument so that we
have to conclude that it is not. Ado means sing and if
you want to sing TO a harp string (one note at a time) you
had to name that instrument. All instruments and modes
of playing (Laws or legalism) and whether and ode was
included was defined by COMPOUND words. It is pretty easy to
blaspheme by accusing God of being more ignorant than a
school boy.
God and Paul are not ignorant: they could have saved all of the sowing of discord for the godly by sayingpsalmōd-ia , A. singing to the harp,
SPEAK (opposite to Ode) the Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs or that which is written for our LEARNING.
And then have said to prove their sanity "SING TO A HARP".
Singing TO a harp meant to pluck a string and then match the voice to that note. Singing and playing a harp at the same time was always a Gender clue.
