Dr. David Lavender, Ms. Rhonda Lowry and
Dr. Jackie Halstead are diligently working for the
University to introduce what they call "spiritual
formation" into the life of the church. What better
way to implement their desired changes than by involving
church leaders in practices borrowed from paganism, medieval
Catholicism and New Age practitioners. Teaching them the
joys of contemplative prayer, to use breath prayers, to
light candles for ritual prayers, to walk in LABYRINTH, to
take pilgrimages and to seek their spiritual center is
supposed to make them more spiritual as leaders of the
Lord's church. Their Retreat to the Catholicism's Mercy CONVENT
to draw near to God is especially impressive. There
are spiritual seminars by men like Rev. Glandion Carney of
St. Peter's Anglican Church and Dr. Gary Moon of the Dallas
Willard Center for Spiritual Formation. The coordinators
of this program must be wiser than the Holy Spirit, for He
failed to include such a regimen in the Bible he inspired.
AMONG
THE JEWS AND THE PROPHESIED END TIME
Goddess
of the Sun
Sun
Goddesses were frequently psychopompes, and the LABYRINTH was
itself connected to the Sun. It's entrance was carefully
faced EAST to catch the first sunlight of the day.
Patricia Monaghan's research has shown that the labyrinth accurately charts the
Sun's path in the sky in the far North. It also marks the
counter clockwise apparent orbit of the Moon as it waxes,
followed by it's clockwise apparent path as it wanes.
Travelling the labyrinth made rebirth possible,
whether it be by the Goddess leading the dead from its
centre beneath the ground, or the priestess Ariadne guiding
initiates through it for a spiritual rebirth.
Labyrinth
"House of the Double Ax," from labrys,
the ceremonial ax used to sacrifice bulls to the Cretan Moon-goddess.
The classic Labyrinth was the palace of Minos, "Moon-king,"
whose spirit dwelt in the sacred bull, the Minotaur or
Moon-bull, a Cretan form of Apis, [golden
calf] who was similarly sacrificed in Egypt.
Minos was a Lord of Death and an underworld judge, a
western counterpart of the Hindu Moon-bull Yama, who
functioned in the same way.
The mystic meaning of a labyrinthine
design was a journey into the otherworld and out again,
like the sacred king's cyclic journeys into death and
rebirth. Early labyrinthine designs on coins, caves, tombs,
etc. referred to the earth-womb. The classic
labyrinth was not a maze to get lost in; it had only one
path, traversing all parts of the figure. Such labyrinths
were meant for ceremonial walking, "almost always
connected with a cave. ... In those cases where the
ritual has been preserved, the labyrinth itself, or a
drawing of it, is invariably situated at the entrance of the
cave or dwelling."
Labyrinth-games were played by witches
for ceremonial purposes. Some descended to the nursery
level, like the game Troy Town still played by children on a
pattern of seven labyrinthine circles cut in sod.
Some labyrinths were taken over by
Christian churches and incorporated into floor patterns,
gardens, or hedges. Some were insinuated into church designs
by masonic brotherhoods as secret Gnostic symbols.
Chartres Cathedral had a labyrinth with the six- lobed
device of Aphrodite at its center. The path of the
labyrinth was exactly 666 feet long, Aphrodite's
sacred number. (See Hexagram.) The central lotus once
bore the names of the master builders, who perhaps hoped to
achieve immortality by the Gnostic name-magic. But the names
have been erased.
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets Walters
Carroll D.
Osburn: If we are to have a
truly significant impact upon the national and international scene, faculties
of religion must play leading prophetic roles in channeling and facilitating whatever changes loom ahead. FACILITATING
the subverting of "hierarchial' views of
Jesus and Paul: Feminist hermeneutics
stands over against patriarchal hermeneutics.
Its goal is achieved by small often unnoticed
acts of SUBVERSION. Numerous such
incremental changes, like EROSION, will eventually
bring down the FORTRESS "Women in the
Church: reclaiming the ideal p. 32
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Plat.
Gorg. 513a
and
so therefore now, whether it is your duty to make
yourself as like as possible to the Athenian
people, if you intend to win its affection and
have great influence in the city: see if this is to
your advantage and mine, so that we may not suffer,
my distinguished friend, the fate that they say
befalls the creatures who would draw down the
moonthe HAGS of Thessaly;
that our choice of this power in the city may not
cost us all that we hold most dear. But if you
suppose that anyone in the world can transmit to you
such an art as will cause you [513b] to have great power
in this state without conforming to its government
either for better or for worse, in my opinion you
are ill-advised,
1 Socrates alludes to the popular theory that the
practice of witchcraft is a serious danger or utter
destruction to the practicer.
as Thettalidas:
the Thessalian women were very skilful in sorcery
and poisoning. They stood in close relation to the
night-goddess Hecate; hence people ascribed
to them the power to draw the moon from the
heavens. Strepsiades says in Ar. Nub. 749
gunaika pharmakid' ei priamenos Thettalēn | katheloimi nuktōr tēn selēnēn kthe. Cf. Hor. Epod.
5. 45 quae sidera excantata voce Thessala | lunamque
caelo deripit. For this, however, the goddess
exacted punishment, for Suidas says hai tēn selēnēn kathairousai Thettalides legontai tōn ophthalmōn kai tōn paidōn (v. l. podōn) steriskesthai. eirētai epi tōn heautois ta kaka epispōmenōn hē paroimia. Cf. also
Plin. N. H. XXX. I. 2 (6). Aristophanes'
designation of them under the name pharmakis, while it
implies that their art consisted in the manipulation
of drugs, does not limit us to that view, because
Herodotus, vii. 114, uses the verb pharmakeuein in
speaking of the sa-crifice of white
horses by the Magi to the river Strymon.  |
The
Kingdom of Satan is Ecumenical is the Kosmos.
Christianity is a tiNY SECT called the WAY: narrow,
exclusive.
See
with connection between DIVINATION like WITCHCRAFT and
a token reading of a passage. David Lipscomb College was
founded, supported and trusted with our children--and maybe
with our grandchildren. We would hope that someone would
take corrective action and restore the Bible Department
having drifted into theology: Jesus said the doctors of the
law take away the key to knowledge. The world is suffering.
Worship
Androgyny the Pagan Sexual Ideal Peter Jones: Throughout
time and across space, the pagan cultus consistently, though
not exclusively, holds out as its sexual representative the
emasculated, androgynous
priest. Mircea Eliade, a respected expert in comparative
religions, argues that androgyny as a religious
universal or archetype appears virtually everywhere
and at all times in the worlds religions. Much evidence
exists to support his judgment.
The clearest textual testimony in ancient
times comes from nineteenthcentury BC Mesopotamia. Androgynous priests were
associated with the worship of the goddess Istar
from the Sumerian age (1800 BC ). Their condition was
due to their devotion to Istar who herself had transformed their masculinity
into femininity.
See the
Musical Worship of Ishtar and Tammuz in Ezekiel 8 while
the men turned their backs to the temple to hold the
Babylonian Sun-Rise worship.
17 A leading history
of religions Christian scholar, Huston Smith, believes
that the present work of the Spirit is producing an
invisible geometry to shape the religions of the
world into a single truth. 18 In a similar vein, the
late Joseph Campbell combined Jungian psychology and New Age
spirituality in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces to
express the notion that all human civilizations have the
same monomyth with
only minor differences in details.19
According to pagan esoterism,
spiritual understanding through intuition and meditation
is the only way to salvation. This comes through a
nonrational, mystical experience of seeing
oneself as the center of a circle that has no
boundaries, where all distinctions are eliminated. As
the great modern gnostic C. G. Jung said, The self is a
circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference
is nowhere. 20
From the center of ones own
limitless universe, the self is sovereign. The
unitive experience, essential to this worldview, is
engendered through drugs, time-honored (Hindu) meditation
or otherwise induced trance. Meditation, rightly
practiced, enables the mind-soul to be disconnected
from the limitations of the body and to be in direct
contact with cosmic spiritual unity. In the words of a
leading neo-pagan mystic, The ultimate
metaphysical secret, if we dare to state it so simply, is
that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are
illusions, products not of reality but of the way we
map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the
territory, it is fatal to confuse the two [illusion and
reality].
17 Ibid.,
emphasis mine. Jennifer Woodhull, Meditation, Prayer and
the Still Point Within, in The Meditation and
Prayer Catalog (1999) 2, states that the 12 major
religions and more than five hundred movements and sects are
all born of the same spark. She describes this
experience of unio mystica as the soundless
still point of the sacred. The Theosophical Society
pronounces valid the ideas about God in all the worlds
religionsall but one, Biblical/Christian monotheism.
As the Societys brochure states: Esoteric Philosophy [read
proto-New Age thinking] reconciles all nations,
strips every one of its outward human garments, and shows
the root of each to be identical with that of every
other great religion. It proves the necessity
of a Divine Absolute Principle in Nature. It denies Deity no
more than it does the sun. Esoteric Philosophy has never
rejected God in Nature, nor Deity as the absolute and
abstract End. It only refuses to accept any of the gods of
the so-called monotheistic religions, gods created
by man in his own image and likeness, a blasphemous and
sorry caricature of the Ever Unknowable.
18 Alan
Morrison, The Serpent and the Cross: Religious Corruption in
an Evil Age (Birmingham, UK: K&M, 1994) 568.
19 Pamela Johnson, The Dark
Side of the Force: Joseph Campbell, Star Wars and
Hollywoods New Religion, World (May 3/10, 1997) 2324.
In the 16th century, Saint Ignatius of Loyola
promulgated an ardent love to the Virgin Mary.[139]
Ignatius admired images of the Virgin Mary and before his
death instructed the Jesuits to preserve Madonna
della Strada, which was later enshrined in the Church of the
Gesu in Rome.[140]
Filippo Neri, a
contemporary of Ignatius, called Mary "mother and advocate"
and is credited with the innovation of daily Marian
devotions during the month of
May.[141]
Saint Peter Canisius is credited with
adding the Hail Mary to his catechism of 1555.[142][143][144]
Ignatius
of Loyola: After experiencing a vision of the
Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady
of Montserrat in March 1522. Thereafter he went to Manresa,
where he began praying for seven hours a day, often in a
nearby cave, while formulating the fundamentals of the Spiritual
Exercises. who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
In 1534, he arrived in the latter city
during a period of anti-Protestant turmoil which forced John Calvin to flee France.
Ignatius and a few followers bound themselves by vows of
poverty, chastity, and obedience. In 1539, they formed the
Society of Jesus,
Famous Quote: That we may
be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with
the Church herself, if she shall have defined
anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be
white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be
black. For we must undoubtingly believe, that the Spirit
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the
Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are
governed and directed to Salvation, is the same [Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual
Exercises, Rule 13 Henry Bettenson, ed., Documents of
the Christian Church, 2nd ed. (London: Oxford University
Press, 1963), p. 260.
Rubel
Shelly:
"In the Old Testament God
spoke at many times and in a variety of ways.
Through Jesus, God Himself spoke to His people during
His lifetime.
Now God speaks through the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit will teach you all things,
will call to your memory the things Jesus said,
will guide you into all truth,
will speak what He hears from the Father,
will tell you what is yet to come,
and glorify Christ as He reveals Christ to you.
The Society of Jesus is
consecrated under
the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a
title of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and it is led by a Superior
General, currently Adolfo Nicolแs.
Associated
Press: Confronted by scores of lawsuits alleging
sex abuse by priests, the Jesuits of the Oregon Province have
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The petition was
filed Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland. The
province of the Roman Catholic order listed assets of less
than $5 million and liabilities of almost $62 million.
David playing and dancing with the camp followers wearing
the Ephod:
"The trained musicians which eventually appear
around the time of David and Solomon mark a
distinctive change in the history of Jewish music.
Before this time much of the music was made by women." (Zondervan Pict., Music p.
313).
"Before the
establishment of the kingdom under Saul, it was the women who, as in every young
civilization, played a major part in the performance of
music. Such figures as Miriam, Deborah, Jephtha's daughter, and the
women hailing the young hero David have become almost
archetypes of female musicians. Characteristic of
all these cases is the familiar picture of a female
chorus, dancing and singing, accompanied
by frenzied drum-beating. This is the scene known to the
entire Near East, and not even the severe rule of Islam
could wholly suppress this age-old practice." (Int Dict of
the Bible, Music, p. 457).
Queen of Heaven was a title given to a
number of ancient sky goddesses in the ancient Mediterranean
and Near East, in particular Anat,
Isis,
Innana, Astarte, Hera
and possibly Asherah (by the prophet
Jeremiah). Elsewhere, Nordic Frigg
also bore this title. In Greco-Roman times Hera,
and her Roman aspect Juno bore this title. Forms
and content of worship varied. The title Queen of Heaven is used by
Catholics and Orthodox Christians for Mary.
- ^ Jeremiah 7:1718
> For I spake NOT unto your
fathers, nor commanded them
in the day that I
brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or
sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
Some people are so simple that they
might say that WE can be rightous AND burn innocent
animals without tainting either. They say, "If
we add instruments we are STILL singing."
> But this
thing
commanded I them, saying,
Obey my
voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my
people:
and walk ye in all
the ways that I have commanded you,
that it may be well
unto you. Jeremiah 7:23
- ^
Jeremiah 44:17
"Asherah She is the Queen of Heaven, in other languages and ages
identified as Ashtoreth, Athirat, Astarte, and Ishtar.
Yahweh, the Hebrew God elevated to become the sole deity ,
was Her consort. Her "male" priestesses were known as kelabim, the faithful "dogs" of the Goddess, "who
practiced divinatory
arts, danced in processions, and served as hierodules, qedeshim, in the company of other
priestesses. Elements of the goddess worship were largely
erased in a cultural purge c. 630 BCE by King Yosiah, at the
behest of Yahweh's priests, who required supremacy.
"I would argue that in
Greek tragedy the cross-dressed actor was crucial, a sign of the conventional nature of the drama. Male playing female is
inevitably distanced from the role and makes it clear that
the role of the woman is an idealization, not a realization.
In addition the male playing
female indicates a possible relevance of the form to dionysus, a god associated with masks and
characterized by softness, woman's curls and dress (Bacchae) and worshipped with transvestite
ceremonies at
the Oschophoria (Seaford; Segal 1982: 10-20,
158- 68, 214).
Revised 9.17.12 Lectio
violates the direct command to read that which is written for
our learning by reading without understanding as a
prelude or trance with the object to DIVINA.
The word divina does not mean reading the revealed word of
the Divine Being. That is proven by the intention to
receive direct revelation.
THE
CHRISTIAN COMMAND:
Lectio ALWAYS means to READ
the commands or laws or whole text because the Author
has spoken with authority. That is THE meaning of a
Church.
Divinus is dīvīnus
, a, um, adj. divus, I. of
or belonging to a deity, divine.
religious exercise, divine
worship, sacrifice.
A.
Divinely inspired, prophetic
A
Personal Ignatian Retreat: Opening to the
Presence of Christ in All Things
Reminding
the Romans (also Corinthians 10) about the Musical
Idolatry of the Egyptian trinity:
Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which
is of the law,
That the man
which doeth those things shall live by them.
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith
speaketh on this wise,
Say not in
thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that
is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Romans 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is,
to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
Romans 10:8 But what saith it?
The word is nigh
thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the
word of faith, which we preach;
Ignatius
of Loyola the spiritual terrorist is NOT Ignatius
the Church Father whose doctrine refutes the Ignatius of
terrorism
...with the task of making
disciples of women called as witnesses by the
Inquisition under the direction of magistrate Alonso
Mejias. Although the alumbrados [Illuminated;
Illuminati; Enlightened Ones] of Spain were linked in their
zeal and spirituality to the Franciscan reforms of which
Cardinal de Cisneros was a promoter," the administrators of
the Inquisition had mounting suspicions. These female
disciples, Do๑a Leo, Do๑a Maria,
and Do๑a Beatriz were so hysterically zealous that "one fell
senseless, another sometimes rolled about on the ground,
another had been seen in the grip of convulsions or
shuddering and sweating in anguish." This suspicious
activity had taken place while Ignatius and his companions
were regularly preaching in public. Because of his
"street-corner perorations" being identified "with the
activities of the alumbrados," Ignatius was
naturally singled out for inspection as one of these
visionaries; however he was later released.
The
Alumbrados: The Jesuit
Order or "Society of Jesus" is a Covert Military
Organization founded by Ignatius of Loyola (a member of the
Spanish Gnostic Sect, Los Alumbrados) in 1534. The
Alumbrados (Spanish word for The Illuminated Ones) where a
Secret Society of Gnostic (Religion that combines Eastern
Mysticism with Monotheist Religions and Mystery Religions )
origins. The Alumbrados were a sect of people of Noble blood
who believed that the Human Soul could evolve into a degree
of "Perfection" in this present life and comprehend the
"Mystery" of the trinity. They believe that when a personดs
soul reaches this state of "Perfection" and "Union with God"
they could commit any criminal, Immoral and sinful acts
without staining their souls.
Gnosticism and Eastern
Mysticism (including the Mystery Babylonian religion)
teaches that its members are "Gods in the making" and that
Lucifer is the one that makes us realize the "God
within us" and evolve this into our full potential
(without the need to repent for our sins) as his name means
"Morning Star" and "The Illuminated One", this doctrine
which is nearly identical in all Secret Societies called the
Illuminati (The Illuminated Ones)
Lucifer or Phosphorus "the bringer of
light"). The name of the planet Venus, when seen in the morning
before sunrise. The same planet was called Hesperus, Vesperugo, Vesper, Noctifer, or Nocturnus, when it appeared in the
heavens after sunset. Lucifer as a personification is called a son of Astraeus and Aurora or Eos, of Cephalus and Eos, or of Atlas By Philonis he
is said to have been the father of Ceyx. He is also called
the father of Daedalion and of the Hesperides. Lucifer is
also a surname of several goddesses of light, as Artemis, Aurora, and Hecat้.
Vergil: TO POLLIO. DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS
DAMON "Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
bring in the genial day, while I make moan
fooled by
vain passion for a faithless bride,
for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
call on the gods, though little it bestead--
the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
'Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.'
Lipscomb Ignatian Retreat: This
offering will assist participants in understanding and
experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of
Ignatius of Loyola. Presentations will
include: The Life and Spirituality of St.
Ignatius, The Principle and Foundation of the
Exercises, An Overview of the Four Weeks of Exercises,
Ignatian Prayer Forms, and Finding God in All Things.
Lipscomb Ignatian Retreat:Participants
will not only learn about the Exercises but will experience
them as a way of opening their hearts to the
transforming power of Christs love. Times of silence
will be observed each day, honoring the Ignatian
principle that the Creator deals uniquely with the
creature. Corporate worship and prayer will also be offered
daily, recognizing that we do not make the spiritual journey
alone but are inspired and supported by a great cloud of
witnesses".
Lipscomb Ignatian Retreat: Finding
God in All Things, A Companion To The Spiritual
Exercises of St. Ignatius, by William Barry, SJ,
is recommended (not required) reading before this retreat.
Ignatian Spirituality
The
Spiritual Exercises by Barry, SJ
Lipscomb
Ignatian Retreat: Resting
on over 200 wooded and landscaped acres with a magnificent
bluff view, St. Mary's Sewanee provides a sacred space
in which guests may meet, bring their own group programs,
engage in a personal retreat, or participate in program
offerings by St. Mary's Sewanee.. There is a
labyrinth on which to trace a sacred path.
Clement
of Alexandria Do not play the tyrant, O man,
over beauty, nor offer foul insult to youth in
its bloom. Keep beauty pure, that it
may be truly fair. Be king over beauty, not its tyrant.
Remain free, and then I shall acknowledge thy beauty,
because thou hast kept its image pure: then will I worship
that true beauty which is the archetype of all who are
beautiful.
Now the
grave of the debauched boy is the temple and town
of Antinous. For just as temples are held
in reverence, so also are sepulchres, and pyramids,
and mausoleums, and labyrinths, which are
temples of the dead, as the others are sepulchres
of the gods. As teacher on this point, I shall produce to
you the Sibyl prophetess:-
- "Not
the oracular lie of
Phoebus, [Apollo, Abaddon, Apollyon]
- Whom
silly men called God, and falsely
termed
Prophet;
- But
the oracles of the great God, who was not made by
men's hands,
- Like
dumb idols of Sculptured stone. (Vulg., Sibyllini, p.
253. )
The
Labyrinth Offers Ancient Meditation For Todays Hurried
Souls: The prayer labyrinth offers a feast to fill
that hunger. Meeting God in the middle [: In the Occult ...the
center is the Androgenous deity/both male & female ... it
goes by different names ... depending on sect or tradition.]
The labyrinth is a maze-like path [Contrived path or
arrangement, its witchcraft term is actually known as
PATHWORKING: i.e.. any of the archetypal guided journeys
undertaken in innerplane travel.] similar to those
designed into the floors of European cathedrals during the
Middle Ages. [What is not mentioned is that it was also known
as the dark ages for the common person did not have access to
the Word of God thus there was no spiritual light or
discernment ] Christians of that time would walk the labyrinth
to aid their contemplative prayer and reflection. The
labyrinths fell into disuse, and most were eventually
forgotten or destroyed. [At the time of the Reformation as people
began to have access to the Word of God and were
able to be discerning of the spirits, the experiential,
empirical, and occult practices fell into disuse or
were abandoned as people became obedient to the mandates
of Scripture.]
As we began the inward
journey-toward the center of the canvas, a gentle female voice
with a British accent [notice the female voice which is
automatically acclimating the participant to hearing the voice
of the Divine Feminine/goddess in a spiritual
context] reads a portion of John 1. She told us not to rush
but to slow down, breathe deeply, and fully focus on God.
[In witchcraft this is known as CONCENTRATION, which is
focusing the mind on one object or idea so
that nothing else exists during the period of concentration.]
Prehistoric
labyrinths are believed to have served as traps
for malevolent spirits or as defined paths
for ritual dances. In medieval times,
the labyrinth symbolized a hard path to God with a clearly
defined center (God) and one entrance (birth). In their
cross-cultural study of signs and symbols, Patterns
that Connect, Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter
present various forms of the labyrinth and suggest various
possible meanings, including not only a sacred path to the
home of a sacred ancestor, but also, perhaps, a
representation of the ancestor him/herself:
"...many [New World] Indians who make the labyrinth regard
it as a sacred symbol, a beneficial ancestor, a
deity. In this they may be preserving its original
meaning: the ultimate ancestor, here evoked by two
continuous lines joining its twelve primary joints." .[33]
Labyrinths can be thought of as
symbolic forms of pilgrimage; people can walk the
path, ascending toward salvation or enlightenment.
Labyrinths have been around
for over 4000 years and are found in just about every
major religious tradition in the world. They have been an
integral part of many cultures such as Native American,
Greek, Celtic and Mayan. The Hopi called the labyrinth the
symbol for "mother earth" and equated it
with the Kiva. Like Stonehenge and the pyramids, they are
magical geometric forms that define sacred space.
Speaking
of the Instrumental
music in worship condemned by Amos and others we note
that:
"The marzeah had an
extremely long history extending at least from the
14th century B.C. through the Roman period. In the
14th century B.C., it was prominently associated with
the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern
Ras Shamra), on the coast of Syria... The marzeah was
a pagan ritual that took the
form of a social and religious association... Some
scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and
with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper
name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical
Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35)
"These five elements
are: (1) reclining or relaxing, (2) eating a meat
meal, (3) singing with harp or other musical
accompaniment, (4) drinking wine and (5) anointing
oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).
"Worship was form
more than substance; consequently, conduct in the
marketplace was totally unaffected by worship in the
holy place. Amos spoke from the conviction that social justice is an integral part of
the Mosaic covenant, which regulates relations not
only between God and people, but also among people."
(King, p. 44).
"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).
5. Jane Carter,
Tulane U.: "Thiasos and Marzeah: Ancestor Cult in the
Age of Homer"
Syssitia of Sparta and Crete
very similar: music, singing, probably lyre in both places; very
similar institution, apparently: the Marzeah of Syria-Palestine, a gathering of
prominent men in a house with its own vineyard
supply, hereditary membership, perhaps involving a cult of ancestors. 8th c.
Hebrew prophet Amos denounces the
luxurious marzeah of Samaria with men reclining on
ivory couches; common motifs on ivory plaques:
winged guardians, women at window, grazing animals,
themes of fertility & rebirth, life-death
transitions; Aristotle noted similarity of syssitia of Carthage to those of Crete
& Sparta; fragment of Alcman re andreion, singing of paian; a thiasos was
involved in syssitia; LXX OT translates marzeah as thiasos; orgeones are members
of thiasos or koinon; inscription found in Piraeus:
in Phoenician, by Sidonians, ref to a koinon; similar scenes are
found on Attic geometric krateres.
Apparently an
aristocratic cult institution whose participants
can expect to join ancestors in afterlife.
THE EXERCISES OF IGNATIUS VALIDATE THE WORSHIP OF THE
MOTHER OF GODS
FIRST
EXERCISE First Prelude. The First Prelude
is a composition, seeing the place.
Here it is to be noted that, in a
visible contemplation or meditation -- as, for instance,
when one contemplates Christ our Lord, Who is visible -- the
composition will be to see with the sight of the
imagination the corporeal place where the thing is
found which I want to contemplate. I say the corporeal
place, as for instance, a
Temple or Mountain where Jesus Christ or Our Lady is found, according to what I want to contemplate. In
an invisible contemplation or meditation -- as here on the
Sins -- the composition will be to see with the sight of the
imagination and consider that my soul is imprisoned in this
corruptible body, and all the compound in this valley, as
exiled among brute beasts: I say all the compound of soul
and body.
John 4:19 The woman saith unto
him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
John 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain;
and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought
to worship.
John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh,
when ye shall neither
in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship: for salvation [Jesus] is of the Jews.
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh
such to worship him.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him
must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias
cometh, which is called Christ:
when he is come, he
will tell us all things.
John 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am
he.
THIRD
EXERCISE
First Colloquy. The first
Colloquy to Our Lady, that she may get me grace
from Her Son and Lord for
three things: first, that I may feel an interior knowledge
of my sins, and hatred of them; second, that I may feel the
disorder of my actions, so that, hating them, I may correct
myself and put myself in order; third, to ask knowledge of
the world, in order that, hating it, I may put away from me
worldly and vain things. And
with that a HAIL MARY.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one
God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus;
Second Colloquy. The second: The same to the Son,
begging Him to get it for me from the Father.
FIFTH
EXERCISE
First Addition. The first
Addition is, after going to bed, just when I want to go
asleep, to think, for the
space of a HAIL MARY, of
the hour that I have to rise and for what, making a resume
of the Exercise which I have to make.
First Prelude. The first
Prelude is the composition, which is here to see with the
sight of the imagination the length, breadth and
depth of Hell.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake; for
the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I
have done.
Deuteronomy 29:19 And
it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have
peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart,
to add drunkenness to thirst:
Jeremiah 3:17 At that
time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and
all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of
the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more
after the imagination of their evil heart.
Second Prelude. The
second, to ask for what I want: it will be here to ask
for interior sense of the pain which the damned suffer,
in order that, if, through my faults, I should forget the
love of the Eternal Lord, at least the fear of the pains may
help me not to come into sin.
First Point. The first Point will
be to see with the sight of the imagination the great
fires, and the souls as in bodies of fire.
Second Point. The second, to hear
with the ears wailings, howlings, cries, blasphemies
against Christ our Lord and against all His Saints.
Third Point. The third, to smell
with the smell smoke, sulphur, dregs and
putrid things.
Fourth Point. The fourth, to taste
with the taste bitter things, like tears, sadness and the worm
of conscience.
Fifth Point. The fifth, to touch
with the touch; that is to say, how the fires touch and burn
the souls.
Colloquy. Making a Colloquy to
Christ our Lord, I will bring to memory the souls that are
in Hell, some because they did not believe the Coming,
others because, believing, they did not act according to His
Commandments; making three divisions:
SECOND
WEEK THIRD POINT
"Eternal Lord of all things, I make my
oblation with Thy favor and help, in presence of Thy
infinite Goodness and in presence of Thy glorious Mother and of all the Saints of the heavenly Court; that I want and desire, and it is my
deliberate determination, if only it be Thy greater service
and praise, to imitate Thee in bearing all injuries and all
abuse and all poverty of spirit, and actual poverty, too, if
Thy most Holy Majesty wants to choose and receive me to such
life and state."
Third
Point. The third, to
look then at what the persons on the face of the earth are
doing, as, for instance, killing, going to Hell etc.;
likewise what the Divine PersonS are doing,
namely, working out the most holy Incarnation, etc.;
and likewise what the Angel
and Our Lady are doing, namely, the Angel doing his duty as ambassador, and Our Lady
humbling herself and giving
thanks to the Divine Majesty; and then to reflect in order to draw some
profit from each of these things.
Colloquy. At the
end a Colloquy is to be made, thinking what I ought to say
to the Three Divine Persons, or to the Eternal Word
incarnate, or to our Mother and Lady, asking
according to what I feel in me, in order more to follow and
imitate Our Lord, so lately incarnate.
First
Colloquy. One Colloquy
to Our Lady, that she may get me grace from Her
Son and Lord that I may
be received under His standard; and first in the highest
spiritual poverty, and -- if His Divine Majesty would be
served and would want to choose and receive me -- not less
in actual poverty; second, in suffering contumely and
injuries, to imitate Him more in them, if only I can suffer
them without the sin of any person, or displeasure of His
Divine Majesty; and with
that a HAIL MARY. Etc.,,,,
DESCRIPTION OF ANOTHER IGNATIAN MEDITATION AND THE
REAL THEOLOGY OF IGNATIUS
- Find a quiet place to pray. This may
be in your room, a church, the garden, your office with
its door closed.
- Establish a sense of inner peace and
tranquility. Let the cares and concerns of the moment slip
away. Sometimes reciting the Lords Prayer, Psalm 23 or a
favorite prayer from memory will help to ease you into the
prayer.
- As you relax into Gods presence,
take a moment to greet the Lord. Ask God to give you the
grace to see what God desires for you.
- Slowly read a passage from scripture
stories from one of the gospels are best. Get a sense of
its geography and flow. Is there something that stands out
to you?
- Read it again, perhaps using a
different Bible translation. Is there something in
particular that is touching your heart either
enlivening or frightening you?
- Now be a child: place
yourself in the scene. Are you a main character? A
spectator? Think about the following:
- What are the sights? Smells?
Textures? Sounds?
- What is going on around you?
- Who else is there? Do you recognize
those around you?
- Surrender to the story.
Interact with your surrounding,
allow yourself to be
guided by the Spirit as you speak and engage with
others.
- Do not try to control the prayer.
Surrender! Let the Holy Spirit guide you.
- How are you feeling? Is your
heart on fire?
- As you bring your prayer to a close,
perhaps you might take a few minutes to speak to the Lord
about your experience. Be candid tell God what/how you
have felt.
Contrary to Scripture and Church
Scholarship Arnobius, Musical Mocking arnobius, instrumental music
in worship,
"Mocking the belief that Mellonia introduces herself into the
entrails, or Limentinus, and that they set themselves to
make known what you seek to learn, Arnobius asks--
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 are so much akin to soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations,
pretend gods steal in
frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these,
moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit."
(Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 479).
The magicians or soothsayers sang their
incantations but Arnobius warned that other "gods" or evil
spirits seemed to steal in and, instead of divine truth,
delivered lies and deceit
1. Find
a quiet place to pray. This may be in your room, a church,
the garden, your office with its door closed.
2. Establish a
sense of inner peace and tranquility. Let the cares and
concerns of the moment slip away. Sometimes reciting the
Lords Prayer, Psalm 23 or a favorite prayer from memory
will help to ease you into the prayer
3. As you
relax into Gods presence, take a moment to greet
the Lord. Ask God to give you the grace to see what God desires for
you.
2Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a
servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have
obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through
the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust.
2Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to
your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness;
2Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity.
2Peter 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they
make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in
the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Peter 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and
cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged
from his old sins.
Do not commit the unpardonable sin by CLAIMING to have the
musical power to LEAD people into the presence of God!
Rom 10:6 Or,
Who shall descend into the deep?
(that is, to
bring up Christ again
from the dead.)
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I
am not yet ascended to my Father:
but go to my brethren,
and say unto them,
I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father; and to my God, and
your God.
Righteousness by FAITH excludes any attempt to CONTACT or
INFLUENCE God through music which originated with
Satan to make people lie about Romans 10.
Rom 10:7 But the righteousness which is of faith
speaketh on this wise,
Say not in
thine heart, Who shall ASCEND into HEAVEN?
(that is, to
bring Christ down from above:)
PAUL proves that the Israelites had abandoned any claim to
PREDESTINATION at Mount Sinai. He also warned in 1 Cor 10
that this MUSICAL IDOLATRY was DEMON WORSHIP.
Dt 30:11 For this commandment
which I command thee
this day,
it is not hidden
from thee, neither is it far off.
Dt 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say,
Who shall go up for
us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,
and do it?
Dt 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou
shouldest say,
Who shall go over the
sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do
it?
Sending across the sea
is mentioned many times in the literature: it refers to the
Israelite worship of
Dionysus who was cut
up and sent across the
sea. All was lost until his wife collected all of
his body parts and brought him to life. She found all but
the penis: so that is why the STEEPLES and PILLARS supply the missing parts in the
Abomination of Desolation in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Temple
had TWO of these overflowing with fertility.
Dt 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee,
in thy mouth, and in
thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Dt 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and
good, and death and evil;
Dt 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the
LORD thy God,
to walk in his ways,
and to keep his
commandments
and his statutes
and his judgments,
that thou mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in
the land whither thou goest to possess it.
They rose up to PLAY using a word quite similar to David's
PRAISE or making self vile word:
"The triumphal hymn
of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it;
but the employment of music in religious services,
though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked
in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden
calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
Dt 30:17 But if thine
heart turn away,
so that thou wilt
not hear, but shalt be drawn away,
and worship other
gods, and serve them;
Dt 30:18 I
denounce unto you this day,
that ye shall surely
perish, and that
ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou
passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE MADE INTO A MONK:
Students think this is the Church Father Ignatius.
Church Father Ignatius of
Antioch to Ephesians
Chapter XV.-Exhortation
to Confess Christ by Silence as Well as Speech.
It is better for a man to be silent and be [a
Christian], than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts.
There is then one Teacher, who spake and it was done; while even
those things which He did in silence are worthy of the
Father.
He who possesses the word of Jesus, is truly able to hear
even His very silence, that he may be perfect, and may both act as he
speaks, and be recognised by his silence.
There is nothing which
is hid from God, but our very secrets are near to Him.
Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, and He may be in us as our God,
which indeed He is, and will manifest Himself before our
faces. Wherefore we justly love Him.
It is better for a man to be silent and be
[a Christian], than to talk and not to be one. "The
kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." Men
"believe with the heart, and confess with the mouth," the one "unto
righteousness," the other "unto salvation." It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts.
For he who shall both "do and teach, the same shall be
great in the kingdom." Our
Lord and God, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God,
first did and then taught, as Luke testifies, "whose praise is in the Gospel through all
the Churches." There is nothing which is hid from the Lord,
but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do
all things as those who have Him dwelling in us,
that we may be His temples,
and He may be in us as God.
Let Christ
speak in us, even as
He did in Paul.
Let the Holy Spirit teach us to speak the things of Christ in like
manner as He did.
4. Slowly read a passage
from scripture stories from one of the gospels are best.
Get a sense of its geography and flow. Is there something
that stands out to you?
Church Father Ignatius to Ephesians Chapter
XVI.-The Fate of False Teachers.
Do not err, my brethren. Those that corrupt
families shall not inherit
the kingdom of God. If, then,
those who do this as respects the flesh have suffered
death,
how much more shall this be the case
with any one who corrupts by wicked doctrine the faith
of God, for which Jesus Christ was crucified! Such an
one becoming defiled [in this way], shall go away into
everlasting fire, and so shall every one that hearkens
unto him.
Do not err, my brethren. Those that corrupt families shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
And if those that corrupt mere human
families are condemned to death, how much more shall
those suffer everlasting punishment who endeavour to
corrupt the
Church of Christ, for
which the Lord Jesus, the only-begotten Son of God,
endured the cross, and submitted to death! Whosoever,
"being waxen fat," and
"become gross," sets at nought His doctrine, shall go into hell. See the universal name of the
universal church.
In like manner, every one
that has received from God the power of distinguishing,
and yet follows an
unskilful shepherd, and
receives a false opinion
for the truth,
shall be punished.
"What communion
hath
light with darkness?
or Christ with Belial? Or what portion hath he that
believeth with an infidel? or the temple of God with
idols? " And in like
manner say I, what communion hath truth with falsehood? or righteousness with unrighteousness?
or true doctrine with that which is false?
5. Read
it again, perhaps using a different Bible translation. Is
there something in particular that is touching
your heart either enlivening or frightening you?
Church Father Ignatius to Ephesians Note
20: Howbeit
for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus
Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should
hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 1 Tim 1:16
Wherefore it is fitting that ye should run together
in accordance with the will of your bishop, which thing
also ye do. For your justly renowned presbytery,
worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp.
Therefore in your concord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ
is sung.
And do ye, man by man, become
a choir, that being harmonious in love,
and taking up the song of
God in unison,
ye may with one voice sing to the Father through Jesus
Christ,
so that He may both hear you,
and perceive by your works that ye are indeed the members of His Son. It is
profitable, therefore, that you should live in an unblameable unity, that
thus ye may always enjoy communion with God.
Note 21: God is faithful, by whom ye
were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord. 1 Cor 1:9
Now I beseech you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye
all speak
the same thing, and
that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly
joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment. 1 Cor 1:10
For it hath been
declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which
are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions
among you. 1 Co 1:11
For whatsoever things
were written
aforetime were written
for our learning, that we through patience and comfort
of the scriptures might have hope. Rom 15:4
Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ
Jesus: Rom 15:5
That ye may with one mind and one
mouth glorify God, even
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 15:6
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also
received us, to the glory of God. Rom 15:7
It is therefore befitting that
you should in every way glorify
Jesus Christ, who hath
glorified you, that by a unanimous
obedience "ye may be
perfectly joined together in the same mind and
in the same judgment, and may
all speak the same thing concerning the same thing," and that,
being subject to the bishop and the presbytery, ye
may in all respects be sanctified.
6. Now
be a child: place yourself in the scene. Are you a
main character? A spectator? Think about the following:
What are you wearing?
What are the sights? Smells? Textures? Sounds?
What is going on around you?
Who else is there? Do you recognize those around
you?
What could that possible to to modify the Truth or make
it speak to YOU beyond the sacred Pages?
1Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, and
we prophesy in part.
1Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in
part shall be done away.
1Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I
became a man, I put away childish things.
1Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly;
but then face to face:
now I know in part;
but then shall I know
even as also I am known.
1Corinthians 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these is charity
Galatians 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a
child,
differeth nothing from a
servant,
though he be lord of
all;
Galatians 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until
the time appointed of the father.
Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children,
were in bondage under
the elements of the world:
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law,
that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the
Spirit OF his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father.
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a
son;
and if a son, then an
heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service
unto them which by nature are no gods.
| And
the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Phil 4:7 |
And
let the peace of
God rule in your
hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col.3:15 |
Wherefore
be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the
Lord is. Eph 5:17 |
| Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, |
Let
the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and
admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
|
And
be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; [Methuo in the literature is
always "getting fluted down with wine.]
but be filled with
the Spirit;
[Word] Eph 5:18
Speaking to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, [Inspired
Text]
|
and
if there be any praise, think on these
things. Phil 4:8
Worship takes place only in
our own heart.
|
singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Col. 3:16
|
singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:19
is the same as with melody in our hearts: neither are "music" but the nature of speech.
|
| Those
things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen
in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. Phil 4:9 |
And
whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him. Col. 3:17 |
Giving
thanks always for all things unto God
and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ; Eph 5:20 |
2Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist
the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith.
2Timothy 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly
shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
2Timothy 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine,
manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, patience,
2Timothy 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at
Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured:
but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ
Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou
hast learned
and hast been assured
of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
2Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the
holy scriptures,
which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
2Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
2Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works.
7. Surrender
to the [your] story. Interact
with your surrounding,
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
Church Father Ignatius to Ephesians
Chapter XIX.-Three
Celebrated Mysteries.
And there was agitation felt as to whence this new spectacle
came, so unlike to everything else [in the heavens].
Hence every kind of magic
was destroyed, and every
bond of wickedness disappeared; ignorance
was removed, and the old kingdom abolished, God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal
of eternal life.
And now that took a beginning
which had been prepared by God. Henceforth all things
were in a state of tumult, because He meditated the abolition of death.
Now the virginity of Mary was hidden
from the prince of this world, as was also her offspring,
and the death of the Lord; three mysteries of renown, which were wrought in silence, but have been
revealed to us. A star shone
forth in heaven above all
that were before it, and its light was inexpressible,
while its novelty struck men with astonishment. And all
the rest of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a
chorus to this star.
It far exceeded them all in brightness,
and agitation was felt as to whence this new spectacle
[proceeded].
Hence worldly
wisdom became folly; conjuration
was seen to be mere trifling; and magic became utterly ridiculous. Every law of
wickedness vanished away; the darkness of ignorance was dispersed; and tyrannical authority was destroyed,
God being manifested as a man, and man displaying power as God.
But neither was the former a mere
imagination, nor did the
second imply a bare humanity; but the one was
absolutely true, and the other an
economical arrangement. Now that received a beginning which was
perfected by God. Henceforth
all things were in a state of tumult, because He meditated
the abolition of death.
8. allow
yourself to be guided by the Spirit
as you speak and engage with others.
Church Father Ignatius to Ephesians
The Holy Spirit
Chapter IX.-Ye Have Given No Heed to
False Teachers.
Nevertheless, I have
heard of some who have passed on from this to you, having
false doctrine, whom ye did
not suffer to sow among you, but stopped your ears, that ye might not receive
those things which were sown by them, as being stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for
the building of God the Father, and drawn up on high by
the instrument of Jesus Christ, which is
the cross, making use of
the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith was the means
by which you ascended, and your love the way which led
up to God.
Ye, therefore, as well
as all your fellow-travellers, are God-bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, in whom also I exult that I have been
thought worthy, by means of this Epistle, to converse
and rejoice with you, because with respect to your
Christian life ye love
nothing but God only.
Long
version: Nevertheless,
I have heard of some who have passed in among you, holding the wicked doctrine of the strange and
evil spirit; to whom ye did not allow entrance to sow
their tares, but stopped your ears that ye might
not receive that error which was proclaimed by them,
as being
persuaded that that spirit which deceives the people does not speak the things of Christ, but his
own, for he is a lying spirit.
Ye are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jn. 8:44
But the Holy Spirit does not speak His own things, but those
of Christ, and that not from himself, but from the Lord; even
as the Lord also announced to us the things that
He received from the
Father.
For, says He,
"the word which ye hear
is not Mine, but the Father's,
who sent Me."
And says He of the Holy Spirit, "He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever things He shall hear from Me."
And He says of Himself
to the Father, "I have," says He, "glorified Thee
upon the earth; I have finished the work which, Thou
gavest Me; I have manifested Thy name to
men." And of the Holy Ghost,
"He shall glorify Me, for He receives of Mine."
But the spirit of deceit
preaches himself, and
speaks his own things, for he seeks
to please himself. He glorifies himself, for he is full
of arrogance.
He is lying, fraudulent, soothing, flattering, treacherous, rhapsodical, trifling, inharmonious, verbose, sordid, and timorous.
From his power Jesus Christ will deliver you, who
has founded you upon the rock, as being chosen
stones, well fitted
for the divine edifice of the Father, and who are raised up on
high by Christ, who was crucified for you, making use
of the Holy Spirit as a
rope, and being borne
up by faith, while exalted by love from earth to
heaven, walking in company with those that are
undefiled.
For, says [the
Scripture], "Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who
walk in the law of the Lord." Now the way is unerring,
namely, Jesus Christ. For, says He, "I am the way and
the life." And this way leads to the Father.
For "no man," says He,
"cometh
to the Father but by Me." Blessed, then, are ye who are God-bearers,
spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers of holiness,
adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, being "a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," on whose account I rejoice exceedingly,
and have had the privilege, by this Epistle, of
conversing with "the saints which are at Ephesus, the
faithful in Christ Jesus." I
rejoice, therefore, over you, that ye do not give heed
to vanity, and love nothing according to the flesh,
but according to God.
9. Do
not try to control the prayer. Surrender! Let
the Holy Spirit guide you.
Church Father Ignatius to Ephesians Chapter
X.-Exhortations
to Prayer, Humility, Etc.
And pray ye
without ceasing in behalf of other men.
For there is in them hope of repentance that they may
attain to God. See, then, that they be instructed by your
works, if in no other way.
Be ye meek in response to their wrath,
humble in opposition to their boasting:
to their blasphemies return
your prayers; in contrast to their error, be ye stedfast in the faith; and for their cruelty, manifest your
gentleness.
While we take care not to imitate their conduct, let us
be found their brethren in all true kindness; and let us
seek to be followers of the Lord (who ever more unjustly treated, more
destitute, more condemned? ), that so no plant of the
devil may be found in you, but ye may remain in all holiness and sobriety in Jesus
Christ, both with respect to the flesh and spirit.
And pray ye without
ceasing in behalf of other men; for there is hope
of the repentance, that they may attain to God. For
"cannot he that falls arise again, and he that goes astray
return? "
Permit them, then, to be
instructed by you.
Be ye therefore the ministers of God, and the mouth
of Christ.
For thus saith the Lord,
"If ye take forth the precious from the vile, ye shall
be as my mouth." Be ye humble in response to their wrath; oppose to their blasphemies your earnest
prayers; while they go astray, stand ye stedfast in the
faith.
Church
Father Ignatius to the Magnesians Chapter
IX.-Let Us Live with Christ.
If, therefore, those who were brought
up in the ancient order of things have come to the
possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath,
but living in the observance of the Lord's
Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by
Him and by His death-whom some deny, by which mystery we
have obtained faith, and therefore endure, that we may be
found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only
Master-how shall we be able to live apart from Him, whose
disciples the prophets themselves in the Spirit did
wait for Him as their Teacher? And therefore He whom
they rightly waited for, being come, raised them from the
dead.
1Peter
1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit
of Christ which was in them did signify, when it
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the
glory that should follow.
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of
the old testament;
which vail is done
away in Christ.
2Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is
read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn [convert, be baptized]
to the Lord,
the vail shall be
taken away. [receiving A holy
spirit: ours]
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into
the same image from glory to glory, even as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are
they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb.
And he saith unto
me, These are the true sayings of God.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him.
And he said unto me, See thou do it not:
I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the
testimony of Jesus:
worship God: for
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
If, then, those who were conversant
with the ancient Scriptures came to newness of hope,
expecting the coming of Christ, as the Lord teaches us
when He says, "If ye had believed Moses, ye would have
believed Me, for he wrote of Me; " and again, "Your father
Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it, and
was glad; for before Abraham was, I am; " how shall we be
able to live without Him?
The prophets were
His servants, and foresaw Him by the Spirit, and
waited for Him as their Teacher, and expected Him as their
Lord and Saviour, saying, "He will come and save us."
Let us therefore no
longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner,
and rejoice in days
of idleness; for "he that does not work, let him not
eat."
For say the [holy] oracles, "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat thy bread."
But let every one of
you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner,
rejoicing in meditation
on the law, not in relaxation of the body,
admiring the
workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day
before,
nor using lukewarm
drinks, and walking within a prescribed space,
nor finding delight
in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them.
And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend
of Christ keep the
Lord's Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the
queen and chief of all the days [of the week]. Looking
forward to this, the prophet declared, "To the
end, for the eighth day," on which our life both sprang up
again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ,
whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the
Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind
earthly things," who are "lovers of pleasure, and
not lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof."
These make merchandise of
Christ, corrupting His word, and giving up Jesus to
sale:
they are corrupters of women, and covetous of other men's
possessions,
swallowing up wealth insatiably; from whom may ye be
delivered
by the mercy of God
through our Lord
Jesus Christ!
2 Cor 2:17 For we are not as
many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God
speak we in Christ.
Kapeleuo (g2585) kap-ale-yoo'-o; from kapelos
, (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by impl.) to
adulterate (fig.): - corrupt
kap๊l-eu๔ ,A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade... kap๊leu' drive a trade, chaffer with your vegetable food Hdt.1.155
II. c. acc., sell by retail, ton
herpin Hippon.51 .
2. metaph., k. ta pr๊gmata, of Darius, Hdt.3.89; k. ta math๊mata sell learning by retail,
hawk
it about, 2 Ep.Cor.2.17 ; so eoiken ou kap๊leusein mach๊n
will not peddle in war, i. e. fight half-heartedly, A.Th. 545; k. t๊i Chariti t๊n amoib๊n Epicur.Sent.Vat.39 ; k. t๊n politeian traffic in grants of citizenship, of prostitutes. ton bion playing tricks with life, [p. 876] corrupting it, AP9.180
(Pall.).
How are you feeling? Is your
heart on fire?
10.
As you bring your prayer to a close, perhaps you might
take a few minutes to speak to the Lord about YOUR
experience. Be candid tell God what/how you have
felt.
Church Father Ignatius of Antioch to Ephesians
Let not then any one deceive
you, as indeed ye are not deceived; for ye are wholly
devoted to God. For when there is no evil desire within
you, which might defile and torment you, then do ye
live in accordance with the will of God, and are
[the servants] of Christ. Cast ye out that which defiles
[1 Cor. iv. 13.] you, who are of the most holy Church of the
Ephesians, which is so famous and celebrated throughout
the world.
They that are carnal
cannot do those things which are spiritual,
nor they that are spiritual the things which are carnal;
even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief,
nor unbelief the works of faith.
But ye, being
full of
the Holy Spirit, do nothing according to the flesh, but all things according to the Spirit.
Ye are complete in Christ
Jesus, "who is the
Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe." 57 1 Tim. iv. 10.
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.
1Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the
apostles last, as it were appointed to death:
for we are made a spectacle
unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
1Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christs sake, but ye are
wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are
honourable, but we are despised.
1Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger,
and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted,
and have no certain dwellingplace;
1Corinthians 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands:
being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as
the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all
things unto this day.
1Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you.
1Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand
instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.
1Corinthians 4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye
followers of me.
See
1 Timothy Four to define the DEDUCING spirits
1Tim. 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing
spirits,
and doctrines of
devils;
SEDUCING SPIRITS: [added]
G4107 planees plan-ay'-tace From
G4108 ; a rover ("planet"), that is, (figuratively) an
erratic teacher:wandering
2. Pass., wandering, roaming, fickle,
poikilon
pragm'
esti
kai
planon
Poikilos
i^,
ē,
on,
2.
of Art, p.
humnos
a song of changeful strain or full of
diverse art, Pi.O.6.87;
poikilon
kitharizōn
Id.N.4.14;
dedaidalmenoi
pseudesi
poikilois
muthoi
Id.O.1.29;
of style, lexis
poiētikōtera
kai
p.
Isoc.15.47
(Comp.); skhēmatismoi
D.H.Is.3.
Pind. O. 6 I think I have
on my tongue a shrill whetstone, which steals over me
(and I am willing) with fair-flowing breaths. My
mother's mother was the nymph of Stymphalus,
blossoming Metopa, [85] who bore horse-driving Thebe,
whose delicious water I drink, while I weave my
embroidered song for heroic spearmen. Now rouse
your companions, Aeneas, first to shout the praises of
Hera Parthenia, and then to know whether we have truly
escaped the ancient reproach [90] of men's speech,
Boeotian pig. For you are a faithful herald, a
message-stick of the lovely-haired Muses, a
sweet mixing-bowl of loud-sounding songs. Tell
them to remember Syracuse and Ortygia, which Hieron
rules with his pure scepter and with good counsels, [95]
while he attends on the worship of Demeter of the
red feet, and on the festival of her daughter with
her white horses, and on the might of Aetnaean Zeus. The
sweet-voiced lyres and music are familiar with Hieron.
Numphē : nymph,
goddess of secondary rank, as the Naiads, mountain
nymphs, etc., Il. 6.420,
Od. 6.123;
offerings were made to them, Od. 17.211,
Od. 12.318;
Calypso and Circe are termed nymphs, Od. 5.153,
Od. 10.543.
Numphē , voc. numpha
(cf. nubo): bride, lady;
after as well as at the time of marriage, Il. 9.560,
Od. 11.447,
Il. 3.130,
Od. 4.743.
Mixing bowl Krater 2. metaph., k.
aoidan,
of the messenger who bears an
ode, Pi.O.6.91;
k.
kakōn,
of a sycophant, Ar.Ach.937
(lyr.); tosonde
kratēr'
en
domois
kakōn
plēsas
. . ekpinei
A.Ag.1397;
haimatos
kratēra
politikou
stēsai,
of civil war,
Mousa A.
Olumpiades
M.,
Dios
aigiokhoio
thugateres
Il.2.491,
cf. Hes.Th.25,
etc.; nine in number, first in Od.24.60;
named in Hes.Th.75
sqq.
Horace Odes 2.
Ay, Venus smiles; the pure nymphs smile,
And Cupid, tyrant-lord of hearts,
Sharpening on bloody stone the while
His fiery darts.
New captives fill the nets you weave;
New slaves are bred; and those before,
Though oft they threaten, never leave
Your godless door.
Lipscomb
Ignatian Retreat: Several sessions were also led by Institute
of Christian Spirituality faculty, including Rhonda
Lowry, whose Art of Spirituality offering featured a
story of healing from Mark 5 shared through
traditional hymns, painting and reflections
on the text.
The Art of Spirituality
(1-hour session)
Rhonda Lowry and guests Collins Alumni Auditorium
This experiential offering will combine elements of music,
visual arts, Scripture, and meditative
reflections from a story
of healing in the Gospel of Mark.
Markers in the Spiritual
Paul
outlawed self-pleasure which excludes all of the
performing arts.
Romans 15:1 We then that are strong ought to
bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his
good to edification.
Romans 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is
written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on
me.
Romans 15:1 Opheilomen de hēmeis hoi dunatoi ta asthenēmata tōn adunatōn bastazein, kai mē heautois areskein.
Ophellō (B), Aeol. aor.
ind. 3sg. A.
[select] ōphelle Od.16.174, ophelle（n) Il. 2.420, Theoc.25.120
(unless these are impf.); aor. subj. 3pl. ophellōsin Il.1.510; aor.
opt. ophelleien 16.651, Od.2.334:old Ep.
Verb, increase, enlarge, strengthen, stonon Il.4.445; ponon 16.651, Od.2.334; andros erōēn Il.3.62; demas d' ōphelle kai hēbēn Od.16.174; is anemou . . kumat' ophellei the force of the
wind raises high the waves, Il.15.383; muthon o. multiply
words, 16.631; hubrin o. add to insult,
Hes.Op.213;
polemon kai dērin o. ib.14, cf. 33; ophr' an Akhaioi huion emon tisōsin, ophellōsin te he timē advance him in
honour, Il.1.510; oikon o. advance it, make
it thrive, Od.15.21, Hes.Op.495
(hence oikōpheliē）;
pedion sun theōn timais o. Pi.P.4.260:Pass.,
oikos ophelleto it waxed great, prospered,
Od.14.233; ophelleto gar menos ēu hippou Il.23.524; lēion . . ophellomenon Dios ombrō Theoc.17.78; ta tōn thurathen . . ophelletai A.Th.103; aragmos en pulais ophelletai increases,
waxes louder, ib.249. (Dialectal
word acc. to Pl.Cra.417c.)
Romans XV. 1 debemus autem
nos firmiores imbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Sustinere A. In gen., to uphold,
sustain, maintain, preserve with dignity.
Imbecillitas Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9
Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9 Caesar, Gallic War 7.77.
LXXVII. But those who were blockaded at Alesia , the day
being past, on which they had expected auxiliaries from
their countrymen, and all their corn being consumed ignorant
of what was going on among the Aedui, convened an
assembly [Concilium Pastorium ]and deliberated
on the exigency of their situation. After various
opinions had been expressed among them, some of which
proposed a surrender, others a sally, while their
strength would support it, the speech of Critognatus
ought not to be omitted for its singular and detestable
cruelty.
Infirmus I.
not strong, weak, feeble. Very
uncertain about their beliefs. This could be superstitious
about what foods they coudl eat. Cic.
Fam.
15,
1,
3 sum paulo infirmior,Hor.
S.
1,
9,
71
Cicero 1 11 My dear
Tullia's ill-health and weakness frightens
me to death. I gather that you are shewing her great
attention, for which I am deeply grateful.
Horace 1.9.
"We do not live there in the manner you imagine; there
is not a house that is freer or more remote from evils
of this nature. It is never of any disservice to me,
that any particular person is wealthier or a better
scholar than I am: every individual has his
proper place."
"You tell me a marvelous thing, scarcely credible."
"But it is even so."
"You the more inflame my desires to be near his person."
"You need only be inclined to it: such is your merit,
you will accomplish it: and he is capable of being
won; and on that account the first access
to him he makes difficult."
"I will not be wanting to myself; I will corrupt
his servants with presents; if I am
excluded to-day, I will not desist; I will seek
opportunities; I will meet him in the public streets; I
will wait upon him home. Life allows
nothing to mortals without great labor."
Outlawed: Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).
1. In scenic lang., of
players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placenti
Rom. 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
Rom. 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit,
if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his.
Outlawed:
Scaenicus I. of or belonging to
the stage, scenic, dramatic, ORGANA, theatrical
I. Lit.: po๋tae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays, theatrical
representations, : fabula, a drama,
2. Placere sibi, to be pleased or satisfied with one's
self, to flatter one's self, to pride or plume one's
self
I. Lit.: po๋tae, dramatic poets, ludi, stage-plays,
theatrical representations, : fabula, a drama, organa, Suet. Ner. 44 :
coronae, id. ib. 53 : habitus, id. ib. 38 : gestus,
Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220 : modulatio
Comedy. Orator
Poi-๊t๊s II. composer of a poem, author, p. k๔m๔idias Pl.Lg.935e ; p. kain๔n
dramat๔n, b. composer of
music, 2. author of a speech
Outlawed: Organum Vitr. 10, 1.--Of musical
instruments, a pipe,. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par.
34, 12 et saep.--Of hydraulic engines, an organ,
water-organ: organa hydraulica,
Gen 4:21 And his
brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and organ.
H8610
manipulate, figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch,
handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely,
surprise, take.
H8608 taphaph to drum, that is, play (as) on
the tambourine:taber, play with timbrels.H8611 t๔pheth to'-feth From the base
of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret. MEANING
HELL
Outlawed: Modulatio. In partic., a
rhythmical measure, modulation; hence, singing and
playing, melody, in poetry and music, Quint. 9, 4, 139:
modulatione produci aut corripi (verba), id. 9, 4, 89
: modulatio pedum, id. 1, 6, 2 : scenica, id. 11, 3, 57 : vocis,
melody, id. 11, 3, 59 : musica, Aus. Ep. 25, 13 .
Clement of Alexandria: "After having paid
reverence to the discourse about God, they leave within [at church] what they
have heard. And outside they foolishly amuse
themselves with impious playing, and amatory
quavering (feminine vibrato), occupied with flute-playing, and dancing,
and intoxication, and all kinds of trash.
[2] unusquisque vestrum proximo suo
placeat in bonum ad aedificationem [3]
etenim Christus non sibi placuit sed sicut scriptum est inproperia inproperantium
tibi ceciderunt super me
LOQUOR I. inf. loquier, Naev.
ap. Gell. 1, 24, 2), v. dep. n. and a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk,
whisper; Gr. lak-, elakon, lask๔], 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: A. To speak, declare, show, indicate or express
clearly:
Aedificatio III. Fig., building up,
instructing, edification.
(a). Absol.: loquitur ad aedificationem, Vulg. 1 Cor.
14, 3 ; 14, 26.--
(b). With gen.: ad aedificationem Ecclesiae [church], Vulg. 1 Cor. 14,
12 ; ib. Eph. 4, 12.
Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists;
and some, pastors and
teachers;
Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ:
Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of
the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
| And
the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Phil 4:7 |
And
let the peace of God
rule in your
hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Col.3:15 |
Wherefore
be ye not unwise, but understanding
what the will of the Lord is. Eph 5:17 |
| Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, |
Let
the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and
admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
|
And
be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; [Methuo in the literature is
always "getting fluted down with wine.]
but be filled with
the Spirit;
[Word] Eph 5:18
Speaking to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, [Inspired Text]
|
and
if there be any praise, think
on these things. Phil 4:8
Worship takes place only in
our own heart.
|
singing
with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col.
3:16
|
singing
and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:19
is the same as with melody in our hearts: neither are "music" but the nature of speech.
|
| Those
things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen
in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. Phil 4:9 |
And
whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the Father by him. Col. 3:17 |
Giving
thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Eph 5:20 |
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