Rhonda.Lowry.Mark.5.Lectio.Divina

1 The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
thou hast the WORDS of eternal life. Jn.6:68

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.
........... And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,
........... because the Spirit is truth. 1 John 5:6

Throughout the Bible, the Word of God is truth or the Spirit OF truth:

Joseph Ratzinger

The dearest case is Johannine theology. In Johannine theology we find, for example, the formula,
        "The Son cannot do anything of himself" (5:19).
        However, the same Christ who says this says, "I and the Father are one" (10:30).
              This means, precisely because he has NOTHING OF HIMSELF ALONE
                 because he does not place himself as a delimited substance next to the Father,
                    but exists in total relativity toward him,
                      and consitutes nothing but relativity toward him
                      that does not delimit a precinct of what is merely and properly its own—
                    precisely because of this they are one.

This structure is in turn transferred—and here we have the transition to anthropology—to the disdples when Christ says,
"Without me you can do nothing" (15:5).

TRANSFORMATION OR SANCTIFICATION HAPPENS ONLY WHEN WE CAN HEAR GOD'S WORD AND INSIST ON BEING BAPTIZED.

name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

	John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. John 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these THINGS I speak IN the world, THAT they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. John 17:14 I have given them thy WORDS; and the world hath hated them	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. John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
	because they are not OF the WORLD, even as I am not of the world.	John 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were GIVEN unto him of my Father.

John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
        but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy WORD is TRUTH.
John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father:
         and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father;
        and who the Father is, but the Son,
        and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

Rom. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
        but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
        that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The Last Will and Testament by certifying the Apostles and Prophets. Deep spiritual depravity would use sorcery or witchcraft to change Aunt Sally's will. When the will is written and testified it is in PERFECTLY clear language. Spiritual
Formation or the Ignatius-murder Lectio-Divina would be the deepest insult to God, Jesus and theWriters who left ups a "memory" not to be "private interpreted" or "further expounded.

2Cor. 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Cor. 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

g3445. morphoo, mor-fo´-o; from the same as 3444; to fashion (figuratively): — form.

g3444. morphe, mor-fay´; perhaps from the base of 3313 (through the idea of adjustment of parts); shape; figuratively, nature: — form.

2Cor. 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

3345. μετασχηματίζω metaschematizo, met-askh-ay-mat-id´-zo; from 3326 and a derivative of 4976; to transfigure or disguise; figuratively, to apply (by accommodation): — transfer, transform (self).

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Rhonda gave us Mark 5:21-43 to read. Our task was to simply observe the text through inductive reading. She recommended that we make at least five observations about the text. Each of these should be written in complete sentences and they must be factual observations rather than any sort of interpretation. The point is simply to observe.

I observed, for example, that:

Both healings involved “daughters”–one had suffered for twelve years and another had lived for twelve years.
Both Jarius and the afflicted woman met Jesus on their knees as they fell to the ground.
The afflicted woman trembled in fear before Jesus and Jarius was tempted to fear when he heard his daughter was dead.
The text moves from public (Jarius’ request) to private (the woman touches Jesus’ clothing) back to public (the woman confesses her touch) and then to private again (the healing of Jarius’ daughter).
The healings involve both a chronic illness and a death.

Of course, many more observations could be made of the text. And the more we observe, the more deeply the text sinks into us as a datum of our mind and ultimately heart. The more time we spend with the text, the more we see in text. In this method I have yet to find a text where I did not notice something new even when I tended to think I already knew the text well.

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Rhonda then suggested that we take one of our observations and brainstorm about it. This is an act of interpretation. Our task is to think of all the possible ways in which that observation could be understood, what it might mean, and what it might teach. The task is to interpret, but limit ourselves to one specific observation so we can focus our contemplation. If we attempt to do too much, we will end up superficial rather than contemplative.

I chose to focus on the observation that both Jarius and the healed woman fell at the feet of Jesus–they either knelt or fell prostrate before him. What is the significance of this? What might it mean? Rhonda suggested that we list at least ten possible meanings or nuances. This can be difficult at times but it forces reflection, concentration and probing. Here are mine though there could perhaps be many more:

They humbled themselves.
They expressed grief.
They expressed fear.
They plead or begged Jesus for his mercy.
They were awed by Jesus’ presence.
They were seeking and searching for healing.
They were embarrassed.
They told the truth.
They expressed gratitude.
They confessed.

Took

Rhonda then suggested we meditate on that meaning of that observation
        for our own lives through the lens of how we brainstomed it.
She encouraged application. But this is a highly personal and direct application.
        The application, according to Rhonda, must be both concrete (something specific) and time-dependent (to be done within a specific time period).

THE SPIRIT WHICH IMPOSES "MUSICAL MOCKING" IS APOLLYON, 666. The Locusts are HIS Muses who can tell a lie and seek WORSHIP OF THEMSELVES

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12. But let them 60 be true, as you maintain, yet will you have us also believe 61 that Mellonia, for example, introduces herself into the entrails, or Limentinus, and that they set themselves to make known 62 what you seek to learn? Did you ever see their face their deportment, their countenance? or can even these be seen in lungs or livers?

May it not happen, may it not come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the one should take the other's place, deluding, mocking, deceiving, and presenting the appearance of the deity invoked?

If the magi, who areso much akin to 63 soothsayers [, relate that, in their incantations, pretended gods 64 steal in frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, 65 who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit,-

why 66 should we not similarly believe that here, too, others substitute themselves for those who are not, that they may both strengthen your superstitious beliefs, and rejoice that victims are slain in sacrifice to them under names not their own?

MATTHEW AND MARK "CAST OUT THE FEMALE WORSHIP MINISTERS LIKE DUNG."

Matthew 9.[23] et cum venisset Iesus in domum principis et vidisset tibicines et turbam tumultuantem

Matthew 9.23 Kai elthōn ho Iēsous eis tēn oikian tou arkhontos kai idōn tous aulētas kai ton okhlon thoruboumenon

"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans. In the Bible, credit is assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical tradition about the invention of musical instruments." (Freedman, David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51). (Proof Here).

Conrad L'Heureux demonstrated that the marzeah, or symposium (feast, gathering, banquet, assembly) of El that is found in the Rephaim Texts of Ugarit "must be a reflex in the divine world of the symposium celebrated by the members of the earthly marzeah of El...each guild apparently had a divine patron."42 The heavenly marzeah had participants called rp'm, which we also find in the earthly marzeah, e.g., "May Krt be greatly exalted among the rp'm of the earth...the rp'm constitute an aristocracy of which the Canaanite kings were a part."43 Moses, and the prophets following him were proclaimed as "Speakers for Yahweh," showing the people that "they are sent from the divine king, the suzerain of treaties, to reprove and to pronounce judgment upon Israel..."44

Note 42: Conrad L'Heureux, "The Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim," Harvard Theological Review, 67(1974): 270-271.

Note 43. Conrad L'Heureux, Rephaim, 271. Cf. 272, footnote 25, the authority of El is ordinarily exercised through the younger generation of gods whom we could call the executive deities. It is also possible to understand the term rp'm as "the assembly of the gods." The entire premise of Jacobsen's article "Primitive Democracy," is that the groups and assemblies on earth reflected what the gods had done in heaven.

This was called "prophesying" by those who "made self a prophet." David made his warrior musicians into PROPHESIERS which means ot make war or make sorcery and never make spirituall Word. The Israelites had been abandoned ot Dionysus or Bacchus "worship of the starry host" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God heard that as a prayer and answered them. Therefore, when you lift prooftexts out of the Monarchy, king, temple and sacrificial system you are restoring the Abomination of Desolation which featured Zeus and Dionysus (new wineskin god) in the Temple. This ultimately, like the word PSALM and PSALMOS is Egyptian-Greek and not faithful Israelites:

Aristophanes' Lysistrata:

Call upon Bacchus, afire with his Maenades [mad women];
Call upon Zeus in the lightning arrayed;
Call on his queen, ever blessed, adorable;
Call on the holy, infallible Witnesses,
Call them to witness the peace and the harmony,
This which divine Aphrodite has made.

Allala! Lalla! Lallala! Lallala!
Whoop for victory, Lallalalae!
Evoi! Evoi! Lallala, Lallala!
Evae! Evae! Lallalalae.

The word lelein is fundamentally an onomatopoetic one, meaning, as Thayer's Lexicon puts it, to go 'la-la'. The Greeks shouted 'alala' both in worship and in war, and personified Alala as a deity (Pindar, Fr. 208 [78]; Plutarch 2.3496). It was this same repetitive and meaningless syllabification in pagan prayers which Jesus described: 'for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking' (Matthew 6:7)

New patterns of Christian worship appear to have been more difficult for women to adopt than men, as they had not known the dignified rite of Apollo or Zeus. For the most part, their religious expression had been accompanied by extravagances of every sort. We may quote Iamblichus again:

We affirm, accordingly, not only that the shoutings and choric songs are sacred to the gods, each and all of them, as being peculiarly their own, but likewise that there is a kindred relationship between them in their proper order . . . and the peculiar usages of Sabazian worship make ready for the Bacchic enthusiasm, the purifying of souls, and deliverances from old incriminations, their respective inspirations are, accordingly, different in every important particular.

Thou seemest to think that those who are enrapt by the Mother of the gods are males, for thou callest them, accordingly, 'Metrizontes' yet that is not true, for the 'Metrizontesae' are chiefly women (op cit., pp. 121-123

Such women must learn that they were purified not through shouting but through the blood of Christ and through the washing of the water of the Word.

"Long before Israel's existence, we find in Akkadian tablets the word halhallatu for 'double clarinet,' and we have many ancient representations of this instruments... Extremely popular for SECULAR purposes, the clarinet was played at WEDDINGS, BANQUETS, and FUNERAL. At funerals it served as accompaniment to the customary WAILING women; this is the meaning of Matt. 9:23. The chief characteristics of the clarinet were: popularity, juxtaposition with hand drum and lyre, expression of extreme emotionalism, and symbolic meaning of FERTILITY and RESURRECTION." (Int. Std. Bible Dict., p. 472).

Tinkling is

Alalazo (g214) al-al-ad'-zo; from alale, (a shout, "halloo"); to vociferate, i.e. (by impl.) to wail; fig. to clang: - tinkle, wail

And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. Mk.5:38

That is why Jesus cast them out using a term "Like dung." Likewise, he consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace along with the DIET CULTS in Romans 15.

Psalmos twitching or twanging with the fingers. 2. the sound of the cithara or harp, ; psalmos d' alalazei A.Fr.57.7 (anap.); there were contests in to psallein

Kirke from which we get the word CHURCH was:

Initially a Hunter Goddess and Lady of the Beasts of Kolchis named Aeaea 'ululation,' she became the funerary Goddess of the island known by her name. Kalypso 'concealer,' Argeia 'bright,' and often Medea 'wise one' who was sometimes called her neice instead. Klymene's daughters were the keepers of golden horned cattle in the lands of the Dead, the Heliades or Merope 'eloquent' or 'bee eater,' Helia 'sun,' Phoebe 'bright,' Aetheria 'heavenly one,' Dioxippe 'divine mare,' Lampetia 'beaming one,' Koronis 'crow or raven,' Aegile 'bright,' Lamethusa 'light being,' Phatusa 'bright being,' and Elektryone 'beaming on

This team of Ministrels were a "Worship Team." They were especially known for inducing mind alteration: if you didn't really like the old man the Musical Worship Team could be called in to induce some tears. This was in the belief that the departed spirit could come back and hurt you. They could also "drum" up a rain or help you find lost sheep which often attracts the goats.

Aul-ētēs ,A. flute-player, Thgn. 941, Hdt.1.141, 6.60, 129, Ar.V.581, And.1.12, Pl.Prt.327b, OGI51.62 (iii B. C.); Boeot. auleitas IG7.3195 (Orchom. Boeot.).

II. kind of wasp, Hsch.
III. au. huponomōn sanitary engineer,

Aoidos A. singer, minstrel, bard, 3. enchanter, chrêsmôn aoidos, III. = eunouchos, Hsch.; cf. doidos. crow as cocks, hoot as owls, twang, of the bow-string, vie with one in singing,

Tettix, Locust: A. cicala, Cicada plebeia or allied species, a winged insect fond of basking on trees, when the male makes a chirping or clicking noise by means of certain drums or 'tymbals' underneath the wings, Mousôn prophêtai or "musical prophesiers"

The MUSES were the Worship Team of the perverted Dionysus and Apollo: often used with EROS. A. erôta Alex.Aet.3.12 , AP9.39 (Musicius) : in Ep. and Lyr. usu. eros (q. v.) : (heramai, eraô A):--love, mostly of the sexual passion, Eros is Aphrodite who is closely linked with Venus or Lucifer or ZOE.

Chrêsmos , ho, (chraô) A. oracular response, oracle: used with BACCHUS and Mousaios [Rev 18:22), Delphi, Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon.

ALL male singers were male prostitutes and therefore eunuch: Eunouchos

Aeidô .Used with the LOCUST and anaballô A. throw up, B. more freq. in Med., strike up, begin to play or sing, 2. throw off oneself on another, V. to be wroth,

Psalm 78: [19] Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? [20] Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?" [21] Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also went up against Israel, [22] Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

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.

In Athens the official who regulated the Flute-Girls--always prostitutes--also regulated the dung heap.

Example One: Hdt. 1.141 As soon as the Lydians had been subjugated by the Persians, the Ionians and Aeolians sent messengers to Cyrus, offering to be his subjects on the same terms as those which they had under Croesus. After hearing what they proposed, Cyrus told them a story.
        Once, he said, there was a flute-player who saw fish in the sea and played upon his flute,
        thinking that they would come out on to the land.
[2] Disappointed of his hope, he cast a net and gathered it in and took out a great multitude of fish;
        and seeing them leaping, “You had best,” he said, “stop your dancing now;
        you would not come out and dance before, when I played to you.”

Example Two: Hdt. 1.155.4 Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more, send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war, command them to wear tunics under their cloaks, and to put buskins upon their legs,
..........and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein), singing (psallein),
..........and shop-keeping (Hucksterism).
So wilt thou soon see them become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."
[4] Ludoisi de sungnômên echôn tade autoisi epitaxon, hôs mête aposteôsi mête deinoi toi eôsi: apeipe men sphi pempsas hopla arêia mê ektêsthai, keleue de spheas kithônas [chiton] te hupodunein toisi heimasi kai kothornous hupodeesthai, proeipe d' autoisi kitharizein te kai psallein kai kapêleuein [prostitutes, petty trade, playing tricks, corrupting] paideuein tous paidas. kai tacheôs spheas ô basileu gunaikas ant' andrôn opseai gegonotas, hôste ouden deinoi toi esontai mê aposteôsi."

2Cor. 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.
Example Three: Hdt. 6.60 The Lacedaemonians resemble the Egyptians in that their heralds and flute-players and cooks inherit the craft from their fathers, a flute-player's son being a flute-player, and a cook's son a cook, and a herald's son a herald; no others usurp their places, making themselves heralds by loudness of voice; they ply their craft by right of birth. Such is the way of these matters.

THE TROUBLE THE MINISTRELS MADE WAS OUTLAWED FOR THE CHURCH OR EKKLESIA.

Christ, the Rock, ordained the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness.

It was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God
It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing.

Thorub-eō, A. make a noise, uproar or disturbance, esp. of crowds, assemblies, etc., Hp.Ep.12, Ar. Eq.666, V.622, etc.; “blepōn eis ton aei thorubounta topon tēs ekklēsias” D.21.194.
a. cheer, applaud, Isoc.12.264, Pl.Euthd.303b

Aristoph. Knights 658 The other, stunned with the blow, grew delirious in his speech, [665] and at last the Prytanes and the Scythians dragged him out. The Senators then stood talking noisily about the anchovies.
        Cleon, however, begged them to listen to the Lacedaemonian envoy,
        who had come to make proposals of peace;

        [670] but all with one accord cried “Certainly it's not the moment to think of peace now!
        If anchovies are so cheap, what need have we of peace? Let the war take its course!”
[675] and then they leapt over the rails in all directions. As for me, I slipped away to buy all the coriander seed and leeks there were on the market and gave it to them gratis as seasoning for their anchovies.
        It was marvellous! [680] They loaded me with praises and caresses;
        thus I conquered the Senate with an obol's worth of leeks, and here I am.

SPOILED PETS IN THE EKKLESIA (CHURCH)

2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

And PAY them too: that defines a PARASITE.
Truphaô 2.revel in, LXXSi.14.4; delight in, .Ne.9.25. [Nehemiah called the kings-priests parasites]

A. live softly, luxuriously, fare sumptuously, of a child, leukos . Ep.Jac.5.5, Gal.6.416, etc.; paison, truphêson, zêson
paison paizô [pais] 4. to play (on an instrument), to sport, play, jest, joke, to make sport of one, mock him, p;lay amourously
III. give oneself airs, be dainty, fastidious, connected to the Polus, Spoiled pets: en tais ekklêsiais t. kai kolakeuesthai, of the people,

See To Pythian Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) Pindar Olympian 1
Yes, there are many marvels, and yet I suppose the speech of mortals beyond the true account can be deceptive, stories adorned with embroidered lies; [30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for men, confers esteem and often contrives to make believable the unbelievable. But the days to come are the wisest witnesses.

OUTLAWED FOR THE EKKLESIA WHICH IS A WORD ONLY ASSEMBLY LIKE SYNAGOGUE

Thorub-eō , A. make a noise, uproar or disturbance, esp. of crowds, assemblies, etc., Hp.Ep.12, Ar. Eq.666, V.622, etc.; “blepōn eis ton aei thorubounta topon tēs ekklēsias” D.21.194.

a. cheer, applaud, Isoc.12.264, Pl.Euthd.303b

Aristoph. Knights 658 The other, stunned with the blow, grew delirious in his speech, [665] and at last the Prytanes and the Scythians dragged him out. The Senators then stood talking noisily about the anchovies. Cleon, however, begged them to listen to the Lacedaemonian envoy, who had come to make proposals of peace; [670] but all with one accord cried “Certainly it's not the moment to think of peace now! If anchovies are so cheap, what need have we of peace? Let the war take its course!” And with loud shouts they demanded that the Prytanes should close the sitting [675] and then they leapt over the rails in all directions. As for me, I slipped away to buy all the coriander seed and leeks there were on the market and gave it to them gratis as seasoning for their anchovies. It was marvellous! [680] They loaded me with praises and caresses; thus I conquered the Senate with an obol's worth of leeks, and here I am.

Matt. 9:24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth.
And they laughed him to scorn.

Matt. 9:25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

Matthew 9.25 et cum eiecta esset turba intravit et tenuit manum eius et surrexit puella

Ejicio B. In partic., like ekballein, to reject disapprovingly: “Cynicorum ratio tota est eicienda,” Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; cf. id. Clu. 31, 86; id. Fin. 5, 8, 23 (in both passages with explodere), id. de Or. 1, 32, 146; id. Att. 2, 24, 2.—Esp. of players, public speakers, etc., to hiss or hoot off, Cic. de Or. 3, 50 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 47 (with deridere); cf.: “cantorum ipsorum vocibus eiciebatur,” Cic. Sest. 55, 118.

Cynĭcus , i, m., = kunikos (doglike).

I. Subst., a Cynic philosopher, a Cynic, Cic. de Or. 3, 17, 62; id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 18; Juv. 13, 121: “nudi dolia,” i. e. of Diogenes, id. 14, 309.—Hence, adj.: Cynĭcus , a, um, Cynic: “institutio,” Tac. A. 16, 34: “cena,” Petr. 14; and in * adv.: Cynĭcē , after the manner of the Cynics, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 22.—

II. Suffering by spasmos kunikos, spasmodic distortion, Plin. 25, 5, 24, § 60; cf. Cels. 4, 2, 2.

Nudus —Esp., without the toga, in one's tunic: “nudus ara, sere nudus,” Verg. G. 1, 299;

Diogones was like a "nude, widemouthed wine jar."

See 2 samuel 6 and David's naked dance because the nation had been abandoned to worship the starry host. Their god at the Temple was not Jehovah. God gave them kings in His Anger to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.

[[Vol. 2, Page]] 45 THE HEBREW KADESHIM.

Thus "Bacchus was directly called upon," he says. The Sabazian worship was Sabbatic; the names Evius, or Hevius, and Luaios are identical with Hivite and Levite.

The French name Louis is the Hebrew Levi; Iacchus again is Iao or Jehovah; and Baal or Adon, like Bacchus, was a phallic god.

"Who shall ascend into the hill (the HIGH place) of the Lord?" asks the holy king David, "who shall stand in the place of his Kadushu [[Heb char]]"? (Psalms xxiv. 3). Kadesh may mean in one sense to devote, hallow, sanctify, and even to initiate or to set apart;

but it also means the ministers of lascivious rites (the Venus-worship) and the true interpretation of the word Kadesh is bluntly rendered in Deuteronomy xxiii. 17; Hosea iv. 14; and Genesis xxxviii., from verses 15 to 22. The "holy" Kadeshuth of the Bible were identical as to the duties of their office with the Nautch-girls of the later Hindu pagodas.

Deut 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Deut 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

3611. keleb, keh´-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:--dog.

Hos 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

The Hebrew Kadeshim or galli lived "by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove," or bust of Venus-Astarte, says verse the seventh in the twenty-third chapter of 2 Kings.

The dance performed by David round the ark was the "circle-dance" said to have been prescribed by the Amazons for the Mysteries. Such was the dance of the daughters of Shiloh (Judges xxi. 21, 23 et passim), and the leaping of the prophets of Baal (I Kings xviii. 26). It was simply a characteristic of the Sabean worship, for it denoted the motion of the planets round the sun.

That the dance was a Bacchic frenzy is apparent. Sistra were used on the occasion, and the taunt of Michael and the king's reply are very expressive. "The king of Israel uncovered himself before his maid-servants as one of the vain (or debauched) fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself." And he retorts: "I will play (act wantonly) before [[Heb char]], and I will be yet more vile than this, and I will be base in my own sight."

When we remember that David had sojourned among the Tyrians and Philistines, where their rites were common; and that indeed he had conquered that land away from the house of Saul, by the aid of mercenaries from their country, the countenancing and even, perhaps, the introduction of such a Pagan-like worship by the weak "psalmist" seems very natural. David knew nothing of Moses, it seems, and if he introduced the Jehovah-worship it was not in its monotheistic character, but simply as that of one of the many gods of the neighboring nations -- a tutelary deity to whom he had given the preference, and chosen among "all other gods."

Following the Christian dogmas seriatim, if we concentrate our attention upon one which provoked the fiercest battles until its recognition, that of the Trinity, what do we find? We meet it, as we have shown, northeast of the Indus; and tracing it to Asia Minor and Europe, recognize it among every people who had anything like an established religion. See the Synagogue for the Godly people

(Jewish Antiq.) every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.

By taking over and adapting Jerusalem's ancient cult, David provided Israel with a new worship, one that featured his own status and its sacral significance. Britannica religious role

Cic. Off. 1.41 While wrong may be done, then, in either of two ways, that is, by force or by fraud, both are bestial: fraud seems to belong to the cunning fox, force to the lion; both are wholly unworthy of man, but fraud is the more contemptible. But of all forms of [47] injustice, none is more flagrant than that of the hypocrite who, at the very moment when he is most false, makes it his business to appear virtuous.

ex-plodo (ex-plaudo ), si, sum, 3, v. a., Gr. pternokopein,
I. to drive out or off by clapping; orig. a scenic word said of a player, to hiss or hoot off, explode him.

Matthew 9.25 hote de exeblēthē ho okhlos, eiselthōn ekratēsen tēs kheiros autēs, kai ēgerthē to korasion.

Ekballō cast out of a place, banisment, cast out of the synagogue =Ev.Jo.9:34 drive an actor from the stage, Id.19.337 expel after birth, expel like dung J. BJ 2.8.8

Dem. 19 337 On that famous voice of his, however, I really must offer some observations. For I am informed that he sets great store thereby, and that he hopes to overawe you by an exhibition of histrionic talent. When he tried to represent the woes of the House of Thyestes, or of the men who fought at Troy, you drove him from the stage with hisses and cat-calls, and came near to pelting him with stones, insomuch that in the end he gave up his profession of actor of small parts; and I think you would be behaving very strangely if now, when he has wrought measurable mischief, not on the stage, but in his dealings with the most momentous affairs of state, you should be favorably impressed by his beautiful voice.

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