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  • Justin Martyr on music and the Law of Moses.

    • Posted Nov 17, 2007 8:50 PM

      First, it is important to note that the Bible is not metrical in a tuneful sense. When the Jews (Greeks etc) use the word "sing" we understand a form of speech marked by accent and not tunful. After the Reformation when they obeyed the command to SPEAK the Psalms and other Biblical text it was this same form "using the normal inflections of the language." The Jews called it cantillation which fits Paul's word SPEAK or Ode. The word SPEAK is defined as "the opposite to poetry or music."

      "Melody as tunfulness belongs to the 19th century" says the Britannica. In its modern meaning melody is still "a series of single notes." There can be no harmony or "parts."

      Harmony was not discovered until beginning after the year 1200 by composers and idle monks "fiddling" with the pipe organs which were NEVER used to accompany congregational singing. Nor, did they ever accompany the chanter who cantillated the Psalms originally.

      Calvin grudgingly allowed putting the Psalms to meter so that they could be sung in a very simple form. These paraphrased Psalms do not intend to be faithful to the text but carry the sentiment--as interpreted by the Bible REWRITER.

      We have all been spiritually and emotionally abused because we have replaced sermonizing for the commanded "teaching that which has been taught" which was commanded and obeyed in the synagogue as "chapter by chapter, verse by verse" with a through the Bible plan.

      To make us further devoid, the SINGING of modern sentimental composers violates the direct command to "sing" that which is written with one Mind and one Mouth. It needs NO proving that while you are speaking YOUR words you are telling God to SHUT UP. There are several Old Testament examples which prove that they were teling God through His prophets "we will not hear any more.

      The quotes link proves that this was always the understanding.

      It is a fact: sad that those who deliberately sow discord by using the Monarchy and Court Records as proof texts are totally devoid of any understanding of the context or story line. Yes, it is true: just read Acts 7 and look where Stephen POINTED without letting the theologian or song leader TWIST the passage and you will discover that it was BECAUSE of musical idolatry that God turned them over to worship the starry host: that is defined as Sabazianism or the worship of the astrial deities where the major 'god' in Egypt and the abandonment was Dionysus who showed up fully as The Abomination of Desolation.

      I assure you that it is the absolute truth and you need to send the preacher back to the Bible and silence the musicians and take some time to obey the ONLY meaning of worship in Paul's writing which is to GIVE HEED to the Word of God: that which one should automatically grasp knowing that the "synagogue had no praise service" and the ekklesia Jesus used to define His assemby has about the same meaning as the synagogue. Here are some collected notes on music by Justin Martyr which will link you to the actual documents composed by Him.

      http://www.piney.com/MuJustMar.html

      I have never heard or read a modern theologian who grasps the FALL FROM GRACE at Mount Sinai and culminated when the elders (always the elders) fired God and demanded a king LIKE THE NATIONS. God understood them to mean "so we can WORSHIP like the nations" or Goyim: yes, like all pagans. God said that "I gave them kings in my anger and took them away in my anger." The kings--after God solemnly warned that the would ENSLAVE them--would carry out the captivity and death sentence conditionally passed because of musical idolatry at mount Sinai.

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