Parallel to the physical creation in
Genesis, this beginning is that of the Kingdom of Christ
Jesus was the First Begotten from the dead and BEGAN His
kingdom at the TIME of Pentecost.
WHO IS THE BEGINNING
1Cor. 3:11 For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Col. 1:18 And he is the HEAD of the body [sōmatos], the church:
who is the BEGINNING,
the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he
might have the preeminence.
g4409. proteuo,
prote-yoo´-o; from 4413; to be first (in rank or
influence): — have the preeminence.
g4413 protos, pro´-tos; contracted superlative of
4253; foremost (in time, place, order or importance): —
before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all),
former.
The HEAD is that which is connected to a
BODY. It is not another person.
The HEAD has the same meaning as MIND or SPIRIT: the spirit
of a person or the spirit of a collective
căpŭt
d. Poet., the head, as the
seat of the understanding: “aliena
negotia
Per
caput
saliunt,”
a).
the origin, source, spring (head):
“nous
1. mind, as employed in perceiving and
thinking, sense, wit,
3. mind, more widely, as employed in feeling,
deciding, etc., heart,
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
and one mediator
between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
THE BEGINNING IN TIME IS NOT THAT OF GENESIS BUT THE
BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM
Jesus didn't create
almost infinite universe of Genesis.
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world that
then was,
being overflowed with water,
perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens
and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store,
reserved
unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
THE BEGINNING IS THE FOUNDATION
PRINCIPLES: THE CORNERSTONE: JESUS
Princĭpĭo
, āre, v. a. id., I to begin to SPEAK,
to begin, commence (post-class.): “hoc
genus
principiandi,”
GENUS, birth,
for high or noble birth, a descendant, offspring
The Son is called by the name
of his Father:
Is. 9:6 For unto us a child
is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his NAME
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
THE WORD IS WHAT ONE
SPEAKS OR HEARS: WORDS CAN NEVER BECOME FLESS OR SEEN.
John 5:30 I can of
mine own self do nothing:
as I HEAR, I
judge: and my judgment is just;
because I seek not
mine own will,
but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
John 14:24 He that loveth me not
keepeth not my SAYING:
and the WORD
which ye hear is not mine,
but the Father’s
which sent me.
THE WORD OR LOGOS IS the Regulative Principle: it outlaws
personal opinions, personal experiences, rhetoric, SINGING, playing
instruments or ACTING.
Paul outlawed SINGING which is used to intentional
hurt. The laded BURDEN is "spiritual anxiety" created by
anything beyond SPEAKING or READING.
princĭpĭum
, beginnings, foundations,
principles, elements
Arkhē
hupothesthai
lay a foundation, logos
the original argument, Id.Tht.177c,
logos X.
the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as
his agent in creation and world-government,
b.
spermatikos
l. generative principle in
organisms, “ho theos
sp.
l. tou kosmou”
c. in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative and formative forces, derived from the
intelligible and operative in the sensible universe, “
Id.Tht.177c
[177c] they will come on
like an
ever-rising flood and
bury in silt our
original argument [logos]—
and let us, if you
please, proceed.
Theodorus
To me, Socrates,
such digressions are quite as agreeable as the
argument; for they are easier for a man of my age to
follow. However, if you prefer, let us return to
our argument. [Logos]
g746. arche, ar-khay´; from 756; (properly abstract)
a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various
applications of order, time, place, or rank): —
beginning, CORNER, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate,
power, principality, principle, rule.
The ARCH holds up the building when you cut a door
way.
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God;
and
the Word was WITH
God,
The Word WAS with God meaning that God's
Word was sent into the MOUTH of Jesus.
SPIRIT POURED OUT produces noting but WORDS which carry God's
Mental Disposition.
Ef-fundo
to pour out, pour forth, shed,
spread abroad “cultus
in
verbis,”
Quint. 3, 8, 58.—
“spiritum,”
Tac. A. 2, 70.—
[Breath]
Verbum,
whence eirō
and rhēma,
what is spoken or said; language, discourse,
conversation, Logos: the Regulative principle
opposite to Rhetoric, singing, playing instruments
or any personal opinions or experiences.
A. In
gen.: “effudi
vobis
omnia,
quae
sentiebam,”
i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.;
cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5;
id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10;
10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:
“procellam
eloquentiae
Those who invented the "trias" concept say that
God always had his Word and Wisdom or Spirit with Him; The
present view is that God was INTELLIGIBLE without the Holy
Spirit God Person to help him
Historic trinitarians understand that when the WORD is
generated by GOD, the Word is God's Son but NOT God.
Pros refers to that FROM WHIC
something comes: of origin or descent, from,
on the side of,
of effects proceeding
from what cause soever:
Words are emitted by God
when He speaks
And the SPIRIT OF God moved
[fluttered like a dove] upon the face of the waters.
Gen. 1:3 And God SAID,
Let there be light: and there WAS light.
THE ANTITHESIS OF: Apollōnos
the god of Light,
Lucifer before, in
presence of,
and the Word was God.
WORD or
LOGOS, except in paganism, can never be a god or man: Word
is what God SPEAKS when He conveys His SPIRIT
meaning "His mental disposition."
GOD IS LIGHT IN THE SAME SENSE THAT HE
IS WORD, GRACE, RIGHTEOUSNESS: these are all made
VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE by Jesus of Nazareth.
GOD IS LIGHT:
1John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you,
that GOD IS LIGHT, and in
him is no darkness at all.
Rev. 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like
unto a stone
JESUS REFLECTED THAT LIGHT 30 YEARS AFTER HE WAS
BORN IN THE FLESH
2Cor. 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness,
hath shined in our
hearts,
to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus
Christ.
John 1:2 The same [WORD]
was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things were made by him; [God through His
Word]
and without him was not
any thing made that was made.
Psa. 33:6 By the WORD of the Lord were the
heavens MADE;
and all the host of
them by the BREATH [H7307 SPIRIT]
of
his MOUTH.
Psa. 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together AS
an heap:
he layeth up the depth
in storehouses.
Psa. 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord:
let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psa. 33:9 For he SPAKE,
and it was done;
he COMMANDED,
and it stood fast.
Jesus didn't create almost
infinite universe.
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water,
perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens and
the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store,
reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
SPIRIT is the SPIRIT OF God meaning His Own Spirit or mental
disposition. SPIRIT produces WORDS of God's Instruction. Jesus
was the LAST One into whose MOUTH God put His WORDS without any
other god person to make it possible
2Sam. 23:2 The SPIRIT of the Lord spake by
me,
and his WORD
was in my tongue.
2Chr. 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the WORD of
the Lord spoken by the MOUTH of Jeremiah might be
accomplished,
the Lord stirred up the
SPIRIT of Cyrus king of Persia,
that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in
writing, saying,
Job 15:13 That thou turnest thy SPIRIT against God,
and lettest such WORDS
go out of thy mouth?
Job 26:4 To whom hast thou uttered WORDS?
and whose SPIRIT
came from thee?
Prov. 1:23 Turn you at my reproof:
behold, I will pour out
my SPIRIT unto you,
I will make known my WORDS
unto you.
Prov. 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his WORDS:
and a man of
understanding is of an excellent SPIRIT.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the
Lord;
My SPIRIT that
is upon thee,
and my WORDS
which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of
thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of
thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord,
from henceforth and for
ever.
John 1:4
In him was LIFE; and the LIFE was the LIGHT
of men.
John 1:5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.
John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light,
that all men through
him might believe.
John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness
of that Light.
Neither is God as LIGHT or WORD a god
Person.
John 1:9 That was the true Light,
which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world.
John 1:10 He was in the WORLD,
and the world was MADE
by him,
and the world knew him
not.
The World is the Kosmos, the ecumenical or the kingdom of
Satan. Jesus didn't FABRICATE that world: He said that
He was not OF the World and neither are any one who hears
His Word.
Made is not the first creation which was DESTROYED BY
WATER. Jesus brought a REGENERATED State.
Gignomai
Come into a NEW STATE Opposite Eimi II. of the real
world, be, opp. become, of
persons,
to be born
Mundo to make clean, to
clean, cleanse,
Ceremonially, according to the Levitical law of
uncleanness: “
et
purificabis
eos
(sc.
Levitas),”
Vulg. Num. 8, 6.—
Spiritually, from sin: “
ab
occultis
meis
munda
me,”
Vulg. Psa. 19, 12:
“
mundemus
nos
ab
omni
inquinamento
carnis
et
spiritūs,”
id. 2 Cor. 7, 1
Jeremiah 2.22 For though you wash yourself with
lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before
me, says the Lord Yahweh. .
OPPOSITE Mundus d.
Euphemistically for
the Lower World, the infernal
regions
the world as opposed to the church; this
world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's
kingdom of holiness and life: “non
pro
mundo
rogo,” “
princeps
hujus
mundi
(i.
e.
Satan)
John 1:11 He
came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:12 But as many as received him,
to them gave he power
to become the sons of God,
even to them that
believe on his name:
God as word became the WORDS spoken by Jesus.
BAPTISM is a mark or seal that one has heard the WORD which
excludes and is marked by rhetoric, singing, playing
instruments, acting or anything beyond SPEAK or READ.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly
received HIS WORD were baptized: and the same day there were
added unto them about three thousand souls.
God sent Jesus for a small band of LOST SPIRITS:
pilgrims and sojourners in the WORLD. The World or
Kosmos is the ecumenical and the kingdom of Satan making war
against the Kingdom of Christ.
John 1:13 Which were born, not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of
man, but of God.
GOD DIDN'T BECOME VISIBLE AS FLESH:
HIS WORDS BECAME FLESH
John 1:14 And the Word
was made FLESH,
and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the
ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father,)
full of GRACE
and TRUTH.
IT IS AN INSULT TO SAY THAT GOD BECAME FLESH. God put His
WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus and that is defined by the
parable word SPIRIT.
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.
Calvin said that God's SPEECH (or Sermo) became flesh.
The Latin is:
Verbum A
Word what is spoken or said; words, expressions, language,
discourse, conversation,
Orally, by word of
mouth (opp. scripturā): eccl.
Lat. as a translation of logos
The latest "trinity" says that Jesus was GOD who
came in the flesh.
John says that antiichrists deny that CHRIST came in the
flesh.
Jesus came in the flesh before God gave Him the roles of Lord
and Christ.
Jesus was not the FATHER and He was not the WORD but he SPOKE
what God the Father put directly into His MOUTH without
requiring THE Holy Spirit "person" to make the Father and Son
INTELLIGIBLE. Leonard C. Allen.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up
the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he,
and that I do nothing of myself;
but as my FATHER hath TAUGHT
me,
I SPEAK these things.
Jesus was not the WORD but He SPOKE the WORD and the WORD
became visible and audible.
If the MAN Jesus was GOD then John wrote nonesense.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself;
but the Father
which sent me,
HE gave me a commandment,
what I should SAY, and what I
should SPEAK
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life
everlasting:
whatsoever I speak
therefore, even as the Father SAID unto me, so I
SPEAK.
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in
proverbs:
but the time cometh,
when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs,
but I shall shew
you plainly of the Father.
THERE IS NEVER A SPIRIT "GOD" BETWEEN THE
FATHER AND SON.
The WORD is that which Jesus and everyone SPOKE
to convey the Spirit or Mind of God. You cannot behold
the Word but you can behold the Word in the FLESH.Jesus was
born of the SEED of David 30 years before He was baptized or
SANCTIFIED and sent into the World
Jesus defined Holy Scriptures as the PROPHETS and other
prophecies CONCERNING ME.
Rom. 1:2 (Which he had promised
afore by his PROPHETS in the holy scriptures,)
Rom. 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our
Lord,
which was made
of the seed of David according to the FLESH;
Rom. 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God
with power,
according to the
spirit of holiness, BY the resurrection from the dead:
Rev. 1:5 And from Jesus Christ,
who is the faithful witness,
and the first
begotten of the dead,
and the prince
of the kings of the earth.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his
own blood,
The Kingdom then came with power on the day of Pentecost and
those who were baptized had their spirits made perfect and
became brothers of Jesus Christ Who still exists in Holy
Spirit form.
Grace and most qualities are PERSONIFIED.
The GRACES of the pagan
world were blue--eyed, blond singer-prostitutes.
The ANTITHESIS: God's
Grace TEACHES His people to reject the Grace of the World.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that
bringeth salvation hath appeared [became visible] to
all men,
Titus 2:12 TEACHING us that, denying ungodliness and worldly
lusts,
we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
John 1:15 John
bare witness of him, and cried, saying,
This was he of whom I
spake, He that cometh after me
is preferred before me:
for he was before me.
John 1:27 He it is,
who coming after me is preferred before me, whose
shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
WE KNOW THAT JESUS WAS BORN AFTER JOHN but this
does not prove that Jesus existed before He was born in the
flesh.
g4413. protos, pro´-tos;
contracted superlative of 4253; foremost (in time, place, order
or importance): — before, beginning, best,
chief(-est), first (of all), former.
g4253. pro/ pro, pro; a
primary preposition; “fore”, i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively,
superior) to: — above, ago, before, or ever. In the
comparative, it retains the same significations.
John 1:16 And of HIS fulness have
all we received, and grace for grace.
His fulness of the GODHEAD means "divine nature" and not a
three-headed god. We also enjoy the Divine Nature but we
are not gods.
Jesus made the WORD audible in the same sense that Moses mad
the LAW audible.
John 1:17 For the law was
given by Moses,
but grace and TRUTH
came BY Jesus Christ.
The TRUTH is the WORD
John 17:17 Sanctify
them through thy truth: thy WORD IS TRUTH (never a person]
James 1:18 Of his own will BEGAT he
us with the WORD of truth,
that we should be a
kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
We are washed with water INTO the
Word or into the School of Christ. No one has the
right to add to or subtract that which is the duty of elders
to "Teach that which has been taught."
JESUS OF NAZARETH DID NOT EXIST WHEN MOSES WROTE
Deut. 18:15
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a PROPHET
from the midst of thee,
of thy
brethren, LIKE unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken;
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children
of Israel,
A PROPHET
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
of your brethren,
like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Jesus
cannot BE Jehovah as taught..
Leonard.Allen.POURED.OUT.The.Spirit.of.God
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time:
the only begotten
SON
which is in the bosom
[SINUS: garment, love, protection,
asylum, etc]
of
the Father,
he hath DECLARED
him.
[ē-narro to
explain in detail, to expound, INTERPRET, MORE
EXPLICITLY\: “scribere,”
The role of Jesus was to fulfill
prophecies "CONCERNING ME." The Apostles as eye and ear
witnesses left us a memory as SCRIBES.
2Pet. 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed,
as unto a LIGHT
that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private INTERPRETATION.
God was THE WORD or Logos: Jesus in the FLESH
spoke what God put into His mouth: nothing more.
g1834. exegeomai,
ex-ayg-eh´-om-ahee; from 1537 and 2233; to consider out
(aloud), i.e. rehearse, unfold: — declare, tell.
John 1:19 And this is the record of John, when
the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,
Who art thou?
John 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I
am not the Christ.
John 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And
he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered,
No.
John 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may
give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of
thyself?
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the
prophet Esaias.
Malichi
John 1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
John 1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him,
Why baptizest thou then,
if thou be not that CHRIST, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water:
but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
John 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred
before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
John 1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan,
where John was baptizing.
John 1:29 ¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith,
Behold the Lamb OF God,
w
hich taketh away the sin
of the world.
John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man
which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John 1:31 And I knew him not:
but that he should be
made manifest to Israel,
therefore am I come
baptizing with water.
John 1:32 And John bare record, saying,
I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
John 1:33 And I knew him not:
but he that sent me to
baptize with water, the same said unto me,
Upon whom thou shalt see
the Spirit descending, and remaining on him,
the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
UPPER ROOM
John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the SON OF
GOD .
John 1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his
disciples;
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked,
he saith, Behold the
Lamb of God!
John 1:37 ¶ And the two disciples heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus.
John 1:38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith
unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is
to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
John 1:39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw
where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about
the tenth hour.
John 1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed
him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith
unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being
interpreted, the Christ.
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld
him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be
called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
John 1:43 ¶ The day following Jesus would go forth into
Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
John 1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and
Peter.
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We
have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets,
did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
John 1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good
thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and
see.
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
John 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called
thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou
art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said
unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou
shalt see greater things than these.
John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
John denied that God came in the FLESH. Other
scholars also wrote to debunk that God ws THREE PERSONS but that
God was TRIAS within Himself with no need for a SPIRIT person
other than His own Spirit.
APPENDIX
Hermes
is the ancient and modern LOGOS
Chapter
XV.-The Sethians Support Their Doctrines by an
Allegorical Interpretation of Scripture; Their System Really
Derived from Natural Philosophers and from the Orphic Rites; Adopt the Homeric Cosmogony.
These are the statements
which the patrons
[Patron is: prostatai, This is a military
expression applied to those placed in the foremost ranks of a battalion of soldiers;
but it was also employed in civil affairs, to designate,
for instance at Athens, those who protected the metotkoi (aliens), and others without the
rights of citizenship. IIrostath" was the Roman Patronus.]
of the Sethian doctrines
make, as far as it is possible to declare in a few words.
Their system, however, is made up (of tenets) from natural (philosophers), and of expressions uttered
in reference to different other subjects; and transferring
(the sense of) these to the Eternal Logos, they explain them as we have
declared.
But they assert likewise
that Moses confirms their doctrine when he says, "Darkness, and mist, and tempest."
These, (the Sethian) says, are the three principles (of our system);
- or when he states
that three were born in paradise-Adam, Eve, the serpent;
- or when he speaks of
three (persons, namely) Cain, Abel, Seth;
- and again of three (others)-Shem, Ham, Japheth;
- or when he mentions three patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac, Jacob;
or when he speaks of the
existence of three days before sun
and moon; or when he mentions three laws-
prohibitory, permissive, and
adjudicatory of punishment.
> Now, a prohibitory law is as follows:
"Of every tree that is
in paradise thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil thou mayest not eat.[Gen. ii. 16, 17.]
The entire system of their
doctrine, however, is (derived) from the ancient theologians
Musaeus, and Linus, and Orpheus, [These belong to the legendary period of
Greek philosophy.
Musaeus flourished amon the Athenians,
Amusement is for the sake
of relaxation, and relaxation must
necessarily be pleasant, for it is a way of curing the pain
due to laborious work; also entertainment ought admittedly to be not
only honorable but also pleasant, for happiness is derived
from both honor and pleasure; [20]
but we all pronounce music to be one of the pleasantest
things, whether instrumental or instrumental and vocal music together (at least Musaeus
says,
'Song is man's
sweetest joy,' and that is why people with good reason
introduce it at parties and entertainments,
for its exhilarating
effect), so that for this reason also one
might suppose that the younger men ought to be educated
in music
Linus among the Thebans, and
Phoebus is singing a dirge, after his happier strains,
[350] for Linus dead in his beauty, striking his lyre with key of gold; but I wish to sing a song of
praise, a crown to all his toil,
on the one who has gone
to the gloom beneath the nether world, [355] whether I am
to call him son of Zeus or of Amphitryon. For the virtue
of noble toils is a glory to the dead.
Orpheus among the Thracians.
"If I had the voice and music of Orpheus so that I could charm Demeter's daughter or her husband with
song and fetch you from Hades, I would have gone down to the
Underworld,
and neither Pluto's
hound nor Charon the ferryman of souls standing at the oar
would have kept me from bringing you back to the light alive.
"But now wait for me to
arrive there when I die and prepare a home where you may dwell with me. [365] For I shall command my
children here to bury me in the same coffin with you and to lay out my
body next to yours.
GENESIS 1 CREATION BY OF MATERIAL WORLD
PARALLEL TO JOHN 1 CREATION OF THE KINGDOM OF JESUS.
The First World
Destroyed by WATER
2Pet. 3:5 For this they willingly
are ignorant of, that by the WORD OF
God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing
out of the water and in the water:
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished:
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The Second World
Reserved for FIRE
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens and the
earth, which are now, by the same WORD
are kept in store, reserved
unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men.
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Genesis 1:1 In the beginning
GOD created the
heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:6 And GOD
SAID,
Said is H559 Amar: think or use speech
Genesis 1:9 And GOD
said, Let the waters
con-grĕgo ,
āvi, ātum, 1,
I.v. a., to
collect into a flock or herd, to assemble. I.
In gen., to collect or assemble a
multitude together, to unite, join, associate.
“ in Academiā
congregati,
Genesis 1:26 And GOD said, Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 So GOD
created man in HIS
own image
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John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was
GOD.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
However, the WORD made man in HIS image.
Adam was a HE Image is h6754 tselem
shade, make visible
gignomai , Come
into a NEW state of being
ĭmāgo a
representation, likeness (usu. of a
person), statue, bust, picture:
A.
[select] In gen., an image or likeness
of a thing formed in the mind, a conception, thought,
imagination, idea: “ |
Genesis 1:2 And the earth
was without form, [inanis] and void;
and darkness [ignorance]
was upon the face of the deep. [Pit, hell]
And the Spirit
[Breath] of God moved [aggitated]
upon the face of the waters.
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John 1:3 All things were made by
him; [GOD]
and without GOD was
not any thing made that was made.
gignomai , Come
into a NEW state of being
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Genesis 1:3 And GOD
SAID, Let there be LIGHT:
and there was LIGHT.
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John 1:4 In him [GOD]
was life; and the life was the LIFE of men |
Genesis 1:4 And GOD
saw the LIGHT, that
it was good:
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John 1:5 And the LIGHT
shineth in darkness;
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and God divided the light from the darkness.
Tĕnē^brae
1. The darkness of night, night,
IGNORANCE
II. Trop., darkness, gloom, obscurity
of the mind, did not Repent
Isaiah
5.[30] They will roar against thsem in
that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks
to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened [obtenebrabitur] in
its clouds.
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And the darkness
comprehended it not.
Skot-ios , I.
of persons, in the dark, in secret, secret, of
sense-perception, opp. gnēsiē,
2.
[select] metaph., dark, obscure,
of dithyrambs
Skoti-a , hē,
( skotos)
A.
[select] darkness, gloom,
Micah
3.6 "Therefore night is over you,
with no vision, And it is dark to you, that
you may not divine; And the sun will go down on the prophets,
And the day will be black over them. “ obtenebrabitur dies
lucis
(al.
tenebrabitur)
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lucem or LUX
In gen., the light of the sun and other heavenly
bodies: 1. The heavenly
bodies: “illae,
quae
fulgent
luces,”
Cic. Arat. 96.— A.
The sight of all men, the public
view, the public, the world:
But, Contradicting the Oppressive world.
B. Light, encouragement, help, succor:
D. Light, illustration, elucidation:
“historia
testis
temporum,
lux
veritatis
E. That which enlightens, the source
of illumination: RATIO (Regulative
Principle] |
com-prĕhendo apprehend;
to comprehend, comprise
A. To comprehend by
the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, To
comprehend something intellectually, to
receive into one's mind,
Katalambanō , 3.
seize with the mind, comprehend, 4. accept,
Acts 2:41 Then
they that gladly RECEIVED his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto them
about three thousand souls. |
Genesis 1:5 And God called [addressed by
name] the LIGHT Day,
and the darkness
he called Night.
And the evening
and the morning were the first day. |
John 1:7 The same [John]
came for a witness, to bear witness of the LIGHT, that all men
through him might believe.
John 1:8 He was not that LIGHT, but was sent to
bear witness of that Light.
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| Genesis 1:6 And God SAID, Let
there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters. |
John 1:9 That was the true LIGHT,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
God created HIS LIGHT
or HIS WORD.
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Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast
of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their
kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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John 1:10 He was in the world,
and the world was made by him, and the world
knew him not.
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Isaiah 65:17 For,
behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
and the former
shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in
that which I create:
for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the
new earth, which I will make, shall remain before
me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name
remain.
In Matthew 5:18 Jesus said,
"Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled" Here He said that the law would not pass
away until what? Until two other things passed away.
What were they? First, "Till heaven and earth pass;"
and, secondly, "till all (the law) be fulfilled."
We know the law was fulfilled in Christ
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The
Babylonian-Hebrew Old World.
kosmos , ho,
kosmō
kathizein
to sit in order, no longer in the same
order, of earth, as
opp. heaven,
II.ornament, decoration,
esp. of women, Il.14.187,
Hes.Op. 76,
Hdt.5.92.“ ē;
gunaikeios
k.” Pl.R.373c,
etc.; ornaments, A.Ag.1271;
“ hoi
peri
to
sōma
k.” Isoc.2.32:
metaph., of ornaments of speech, such as epithets,
Id.9.9
(pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14,
Po.1457b2,
1458a33;
hadumelē
k. keladeinto
sing sweet songs of praise,Pi.O.11
( 10). 13
(s.v.l.).
5.houtos
ho k. this present world,
i.e. earth, opp. heaven, Ev.Jo.13.1;
regarded as the kingdom of evil,ho arkhōn
tou
k. toutou
ib. 12.31.
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The OLD has passed Away and the
New World began with Jesus.
kosmos , ho,
kosmō
kathizein
to sit in order, no longer in the same
order,
kathizō I.
causal, make to sit down, seatoikēmatos”
sit down on a thronon,
i.e. to make him king set him upon the royal throne
gignomai ,
II folld. by a Predicate, come
into a certain state, become,
and (in past tenses), come
into a new state of being to
be,1.
folld. by Nouns and Adjs., “ dēioisi
de
kharma
g.” Il.6.82,
cf. 8.282; “ sōtēr genou
moi”
A.Ch.2;
hence, I. abs., come into
beingopp. einai,
or I. of persons, exist, “ ouk
esth'
houtos
anēr,
oud'
essetai”
Od.16.437;
et'
eisithey
are still in being,
2.einai ek
tinosto
be sprung from,
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Thomas Campbell and most agreed with
Tertullian who used the word TRIAS.
Tertullian an
inventor of trias c. ad 206: But, first, I shall
discuss His essential nature, and so the nature of
His birth will be understood. We have already
asserted that
God made the world, and
all which it contains,
by His Word, and Reason, and Power.
It is abundantly plain that your philosophers,
too,
regard the Logos-that is, the Word and Reason-
as the Creator of the universe.
And we, in
like manner, hold that the Word, and Reason, and Power,
by which we
have said God made all,
have SPIRIT as their proper and essential
substratum, in which
the Word has in being to give forth UTTERENCES,
.......and REASON abides to dispose and arrange,
......and POWER is over all to execute.
We have been taught that
He
(reason) proceeds forth from God,
and in
that PROCESSION He is GENERATED;
so that He is the SON of God,
and is called God from unity of substance with God.
For God, too, is a Spirit.
Even when
the RAY is shot from the sun,
..........it is still part
of the parent mass; the sun will still be in
the
ray, because it is a ray of
the sun-
..........there is no division of
substance,
but merely an extension.
Thus
Christ is Spirit OF
Spirit, and
God OF God, as light OF light is kindled.
[Jesus: My WORDS are
SPIRIT and LIFE
The material matrix remains entire and unimpaired,
though you DERIVE from it any number of shoots possessed of
its qualities;
so, too, that which
has come forth out of God
is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this way also, as He
is Spirit of Spirit and God of God,
He [SPIRIT]
is made a second in manner of
existence-in position, not in nature; and He did not withdraw from the original source,
but went
forth.
This ray of God, then, as it
was always foretold in ancient times, descending into a
certain virgin, and made FLESH in her womb,
..........is in His birth God and man united. |
Campbell, Thomax, Trinity The relationship of
Word to God was the same as the relationship of a word
to a thought.
And so this is the most common understanding among
the church fathers. The the word is the SON
of the speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem
trying to sort out how a LITERAL son of god could be
equal with the Father or of the same age.
1st. A WORD is a sign or representative of a thought or an idea,
and is the idea in an audible or visible form.
It is the
exact
image of that invisible thought
which is a perfect secret to all the world until it is expressed.
2d. All men think or form ideas by means of words or images; so that no man can think without words or symbols of some
sort.
3d. Hence it follows that the word and the idea which it
represents,
are co-etaneous, or
of the same age or antiquity.
.......
.It is
true the word may not be uttered or born
for years or
ages after the idea exists,
........but still the word is just as old
as the idea.
4th. The idea and the word are nevertheless distinct from each
other, though the relation between them is
the nearest known on earth.
........An idea cannot exist without
a word,
nor a word without
an idea.
5th. He that is acquainted with
the WORD, is acquainted with the
IDEA,
for the idea
is wholly
in the word.
By putting together the above
remarks on the term word,
we have a full view of what John intended to
communicate.
As a
word is
an exact IMAGE of an IDEA,
so is "The
WORD" an exact image of
the invisible God.
As a WORD cannot exist without an idea, nor an idea without
a word,
so God never was
without "The
Word,"
nor "The Word"
without God;
or as a word is of equal age, or co-etaneous with
its idea,
so "The Word" and God are co-eternal.
And as an idea does not create its
word nor a word its idea; so God did not create "The Word," nor the "Word"
God.
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Theophilus on TRIAS to deny that TRIAS
meant TRINITY. The World Created by God Through the
Word.
Theophilus.Autolydus.II
Chapter
IX.-The
Prophet's Inspired by the Holy Ghost.
But men of God carrying
in them A holy
spirit and becoming
prophets, being inspired and
made wise by God, became God-taught, and holy, and righteous.
Wherefore
they were also deemed worthy of receiving this reward,
that they should become
........... instruments of God,
and contain the wisdom that is
from Him,
........... ........... through
which wisdom they uttered both
........... ........... what
regarded the creation of the world and all other
things.
For they predicted also pestilences, and
famines, and wars. And there was not one or two, but many,
at various times and seasons among the Hebrews; and also
among the Greeks there was the Sibyl; and they all
have spoken things consistent and harmonious with each
other, both what happened before them and what happened in
their own time, and what things are now being fulfilled in
our own day: wherefore we are persuaded also concerning
the future things that they will fall out, as also the
first have been accomplished.
Chapter X.-The World Created by God
Through the Word.
And first, they taught us with one consent
that God made all things out of nothing; for nothing
was coeval with God: but He being His own place,
and wanting nothing,
........... and existing
before the ages, willed to make
man by whom He might
be known;
........... for him,
therefore, He prepared the world.
........... For he that is
created is also needy; but he that is uncreated stands
in need of nothing.
God, then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels,
........... begat Him, emitting Him
........... along with His own wisdom before all
things.
He had this Word
as a helper in
the things that were created by
Him, and by Him He made all things.
He is called "governing
principle", because He rules, and
is Lord of all things fashioned by Him.
He, then, being Spirit of God,
and governing principle,
and wisdom,
and power of the
highest,
came down upon the prophets, and
through them spoke of the creation of the world and of
all other things. (This
was the Spirit of Christ, 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation
19:10)
For the prophets were not when the world
came into existence,
but
the wisdom [Spirit in this instance is
Sophia] of God which was in Him, and
His holy Word which was always present with Him.
Wherefore He speaks thus by the prophet
Solomon:
"When
He prepared the heavens I (Wisdom or
Sophia) was there,
and when He appointed the foundations of the earth I
was by Him as one brought up with Him."
[Ps.
cxix. 130. Note this tribute to
the inspired Scriptures and their converting
power; I might almost
say their sacramental
energy, referring to John vi.
63.]
Jesus
DENIED that the Spirit was ANOTHER GOD or
"brother"
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 6:63
And Moses, who lived many years before
Solomon, or, rather, the Word
of God by him as by an
instrument, says, "In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth."
First
he named the "beginning," and "creation," then he
thus introduced God;
........... Beginning:
21 That is, the first
principle, whom he
has just shown to be the Word.
for not lightly and on slight
occasion is it right to name God.
........... For the
divine wisdom foreknew that some
would trifle
........... and
name a multitude
of gods that do not exist.
In
order, therefore, that the living God might be known
by His works,
and that [it might be known that] by
His Word God created
the heavens and the earth,
and all that is therein,
he said, "In
the beginning [Word] God created the
heavens and the earth."
Then having spoken of their creation, he
explains to us: "And the earth was without form, and void,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit
of God moved upon the water."
This, sacred Scripture teaches at the
outset, to show that matter, from
which God made and fashioned the world,
was in some manner created, being produced by God. [1 Cor.
ii. 9.]T
Thomas Campbell and most
agreed with Tertullian who used the word TRIAS.
Tertullian an
inventor of trias c. ad 206: But, first, I shall
discuss His essential nature, and so the nature of
His birth will be understood. We have already
asserted that
God made the world, and
all which it contains,
by His Word, and Reason, and Power.
It is abundantly plain that your philosophers,
too,
regard the Logos-that is, the Word and Reason-
as the Creator of the universe.
And we, in
like manner, hold that the Word, and Reason, and Power,
by which we
have said God made all,
have SPIRIT as their proper and essential
substratum, in which
the Word has in being to give forth UTTERENCES,
.......and REASON abides to dispose and arrange,
......and POWER is over all to execute.
We have been taught that
He
(reason) proceeds forth from God,
and in
that PROCESSION He is GENERATED;
so that He is the SON of God,
and is called God from unity of substance with God.
For God, too, is a Spirit.
Even when
the RAY is shot from the sun,
..........it is still part
of the parent mass; the sun will still be in
the
ray, because it is a ray of
the sun-
..........there is no division of
substance,
but merely an extension.
Thus
Christ is Spirit OF Spirit, and God OF God, as light OF
light
is kindled. [Jesus: My
WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE
The material matrix remains entire and unimpaired,
though you DERIVE from it any number of shoots possessed of
its qualities;
so, too, that which
has come forth out of God
is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this way also, as He
is Spirit of Spirit and God of God,
He [SPIRIT]
is made a second in manner of
existence-in position, not in nature; and He did not withdraw from the original source,
but went
forth.
This RAY of God,
then, as it was always foretold in ancient times, descending into a
certain virgin, and made FLESH in her womb,
..........is in His birth God and man united. |
Campbell, Thomax, Trinity The relationship of
Word to God was the same as the relationship of a word
to a thought.
And so this is the most common understanding among
the church fathers. The the word is the SON
of the speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem
trying to sort out how a LITERAL son of god could be
equal with the Father or of the same age.
1st. A WORD is a sign or representative of a thought or an idea,
and is the idea in an audible or visible form.
It is the
exact
image of that invisible thought
which is a perfect secret to all the world until it is expressed.
2d. All men think or form ideas by means of words or images; so that no man can think without words or symbols of some
sort.
3d. Hence it follows that the word and the idea which it
represents,
are co-etaneous, or
of the same age or antiquity.
.......
.It is
true the word may not be uttered or born
for years or
ages after the idea exists,
........but still the word is just as old
as the idea.
4th. The idea and the word are nevertheless distinct from each
other, though the relation between them is
the nearest known on earth.
........An idea cannot exist without
a word,
nor a word without
an idea.
5th. He that is acquainted with
the WORD, is acquainted with the
IDEA,
for the idea
is wholly
in the word.
By putting together the above
remarks on the term word,
we have a full view of what John intended to
communicate.
As a
word is
an exact IMAGE of an IDEA,
so is "The
WORD" an exact image of
the invisible God.
As a WORD cannot exist without an idea, nor an idea without
a word,
so God never was
without "The
Word,"
nor "The Word"
without God;
or as a word is of equal age, or co-etaneous with
its idea,
so "The Word" and God are co-eternal.
And as an idea does not create its
word nor a word its idea; so God did not create "The Word," nor the "Word"
God.
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