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      • Posted Apr 10, 2003 11:18 AM

      Farmer's Branch Church of Christ PROOF TEXT: The words "psallo" and "psalmos" as used in secular Greek literature from the 5th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
      ----apparently never referred to singing but only to the playing or the sound of an instrument.
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      Even in the Attic world before PSALLO lost its image of musical perversion, it is defined just like a SONG is defined. It is METRICAL and therefore:

      Psalmos (g5568) psal-mos'; from 5567;
      ---a set piece of music, i.e. a sacred ode
      ------accompanied with the VOICE,
      ------harp or other instrument; a "psalm"); collect.
      ------the book of the Psalms: - psalm. Comp. 5603.

      Nothing written as a modern PRAISE song qualifies. And the HUMAN VOICE is always the FIRST INSTRUMENT OF CHOICE in the Greek world which had LITTLE instrumental art. Throughout the Old and New Testaments, an INSTRUMENT is never INCLUDED in MELODY unless that instrument is NAMED. For instance:

      ----Am.5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy VIOLS

      ----Is.23:16 Take an HARP, go about the city, thou HARLOT that hast been forgotten; make sweet MELODY, SING many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

      Make MELODY in the HEART names the first instrument of Choice and THEREFORE EXCLUDES another INSTRUMENT.

      Paul said that we should SPEAK ONE TO ANOTHER with the INSPIRED TEXT in order to TEACH (and not seduce). The melody is IN THE HEART because you CANNOT speak to teach and SING at the same time.

      We first heart this false argument from Milton Jones who also turned the church of Christ into a MUSICAL church. The argument goes that Lucian of Samosata used PSALLO (melody) to include instrument long after Paul used the word. Therefore, even after KOINE Greek took over from ATTIC Greek the word STILL included instruments. JONES Quotes:

      The false Proof-Text: "You cannot psallein (or psallo) WITHOUT an instrument"

      First, it is perfectly clear that Lucian was a SYRIAN who learned ATTIC Greek and used it in Greece because it was still the ARISTOCRATIC language. If you wanted to sell your speeches to KINGS you wrote in Attic. All public speakers and musicians were known as PARASITES or SPONGERS.

      Next, since I have a four volume set of Lucian I can quote it to make sense. Lucian, also a PARASITE, actually wrote of HIS art of SPONGING:

      "Other arts, again, are useless to their professor unless he has his plant;

      ----you cannot PLAY the FLUTE if you HAVE NOT ONE to play;

      ----LYRICAL music requires a LYRE,
      ----horsemanship a horse.

      ----But of ours (sponging selling speeches and songs) one of the excellences and conveniences is that

      ----no instrument is required for its exercise. The Parasite, 17. Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler, Vol III, 1905

      Lyric: 1. of a lyre 2. SUITABLE for singing as to the accompaniment of a lyre. Webster

      Lucian wrote about BOY worship ministers.

      Alexander the Oracle Monger knew that you could pervert the "fat heads and simpletons" by just playing the flute. However, ALL "musical worship teams" consisted of men like the Pope's A Cappella choir in early days:

      --The scoffer Lucian pours out his sarcasm in a passage in which he speaks of the fraudulent prophet Alexander of Abonouteichos (the Oracle Monger), who kept CHOIR BOYS in the service of the GODS with him:

      --To all OTHERS he forbade pederasty (Platonic love of a man for a boy) as shameful. In order NOT to admit his OWN guilt in this matter, however, the admirable fellow devised the following scheme:

      --he proposed to the cities in Paphlagonia and Pontus that every three years they should send him CHOIR BOYS who would sing hymns of praise with him to the god.

      --Moreover, only the noblest, fairest and most charming boys were to be sent -- after a previous careful examination.

      --These he confined with himself, slept with and abused with every possible lechery. (Lucian, Alexander, 41.247}

      --Choirs were used because "Thus they led the SIMPLE into error and sought to bewitch the ears of lay people, who are easily led astray by hymns and melodies."

      This is why the Jews PIPED hoping to seduce Jesus into the Dionysus SONG and DANCE. Music was the arena of the male of female PROSTITUTE and you seduced them FOR PAY and PRIVATE USE: never for true WORSHIP.

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

      THERE IS NO EXCEPTION: HISTORY KNOWS OF NO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE POST BIBLICAL WORLD WHICH IS NOT USED BY MALE AND FEMALE PROSTITUTES OF THE "LOWER CLASSES" WHO ENTERTAINED AT FESTIVALS. NONE.

      THAT IS STILL THE PERSONA OF THE MUSIC AND THEATER WORLD.

      Ken Sublett
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