1 Corinthians 1

Kapeleuo

adulterate

Hdt.1.155

2. metaphor mathêmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, 2 Ep.Cor.2.17; so eoiken ou kapêleusein machên will not peddle in war, têi Chariti [perverted GRACES], traffic in grants of citizenship, of prostitutes, ton bion playing tricks with life,

The word ADULTERY and KLEPTO are associated with this verse. The concept of arousal singing to produce the outlawed PLEASURING is also connected with KLEPTOMANIA by the "heretics" who LIFT YOU UP to carry you away for THEIR OWN PLEASURES.

Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus told how to take the FIGHT out of the enemy: [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them this command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to you: send and forbid them to possess weapons of war,

and order them to wear tunics under their cloaks
and knee-boots on their feet, and to teach their sons
lyre-playing [kitharizein]
and song [psallein]
and dance and shop-keeping [huckstering].
And quickly, O king,you shall see them become women instead of men,
so that you need not fear them, that they might revolt."

PAUL'S PARALLEL WARNING IN EPHESIANS

God set the church in order by giving supernatural gifts to chosen men. These were to build a foundation which would withstand those NAVIGATING the Winds of change trying secularize the spiritual school of the bible. The purpose was:

Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Panourgia

trickery

or sophistry

Panourg-êma

SOPHISTRY

Sophos: properly, skilled in any handicraft or art, cunning in his CRAFT, of POETS and MUSICIANS, SOOTHSAYERS, SOPHISTS, etc.

Sophis-teia, sophistry, mantikê, of Balaam, mantikê means divination, soothsayer

Mantikos
2. technê m. faculty of divination, prophecy. Having a daimonios heaven-sent, miraculous, marvellous

Erist-ikos

debate

dialektikon

sophistry

sullogismos

Playto, Cratylus says

"the part of appropriative, coercive, hunting art which hunts animals, land animals, tame animals, man, privately, FOR PAY, is paid in CASH, claims to GIVE education, and is a hunt after rich and promising youths, must--so our present argument concludes--be called SOPHISTRY.

In Romans 14 Paul outlawed doubtful disputations or DIALOG about private diversities: he excluded WHATEVER it is human wisdom can improvise to AID God in His work. Then in Romans 15 he was INCLUSIVE by defining 'that which is written' or Scripture to perform the functions of the assembly or synagogue:

Edify or educate
Comfort one another with the Scriptures
Glorify God Who wrote the songs and sermons
And thereby keep the UNITY of the body.

Then he told them to protect themselves against the door to door demagogues because they were competent to do that for themselves.

To that Jesus instituted, Paul defined and the historic church practiced the Lord's Supper also a teaching visual aid.

Not only are all believers sanctified vessels able to come into the Holy Place as a type of the body or church of Christ, they are totally equipped. They have the "table of bread" as a way to remember the death of Christ which sanctified them, they have the seven candles or "spirits of knowledge" (Isa 11) to teach one another and they have access to the incense altar to offer prayers in the Most Holy Place. Therefore, do not seek out a human "father."

1 Corinthians 1:5 That in every thing

ye are enriched by him,
........ in all utterance, and
........ in all knowledge;

1. As Prophesied:

The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness. Isaiah 33:5

He will be the sure foundation [security] for your times,
........ a rich store of salvation

........ and wisdom and knowledge;

........ the fear of the LORD

........ is the key to this treasure Isaiah 33:6

2. The Failure of all "doctors of the Law" who have no reason to exist other than to modify the Words of God:

Luke 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God,
..........I will send them prophets and apostles,
..........and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

Luke 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Luke 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:

ye entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Luke 11:53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Here are two examples:

Luke 7: 29And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luke 7:31And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luke 7:32They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept

John 12:42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
John 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God

The word SPEAK in the comman assemblies which met for INSTRUCTION and by definition excludes MUSIC: that is why Paul insistedthat singing AND melody be in the PLACE of the human spirit or heart.

1. Utterance:

Logos (g3056) log'-os; from 3004; something said (including the thought); by impl. a topic (subject of discourse),
Gnosis (g1108) gno'-sis; from 1097; knowing (the act), i.e. (by impl.) knowledge: - knowledge, science.

Ro.15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

2. Another of the passages which does NOT speak of music is in Latin:

Eph 5: [19]WEB loquentes vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et canticis spiritalibus cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino

Loquor [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 10; 11, 3, 45). indicate or express clearly:

By definition that EXCLUDES singing.

3. Part of that grace is the Word [logos] or utterance. The Word is given for us to UTTER as the only rationale for the assembly which is the synagogue. Jesus didn't die to give Billy Joe a stump to stand on.

Logos. The ACT of speaking is logik-os , ê, on, ( [logos] ) the organs of speech
A. of or for speaking or speech, logikê, hê,
........ speech,
........ opposite to mousikê,

Reprobate or CAST away is Adokim-os disreputable, mousa

Musica mousika, the art of music, music; acc. to the notions of the ancients, comic and dramatic poetry, temporibus tantum

Same as: Magice- , e-s, f., = magikÃª (sc. techna), the magic art, magic, sorcery medicinam [dico magicenque, magices factio

4. Those who are SPECIFICIALLY EXCLUDED from the assembly as performers: Responsible people never SENT OUT a sophist or poet to deliver a message: they knew that it would be altered and charged for on the receiving end.

A. Plato, Laws [941a] Athenian shows why such VOCATIONS are outlawed and DANGEROUS in a HERALD who must not tamper with the Word. Nor, must he charge for the dispatch by the RECEIVER. The message must be postage paid by the ones doing the HERALDING.

If anyone, while acting as ambassador [presb-eutês] or herald [kerus-preacher], conveys false messages from his State to another State,
or fails to deliver the ACTA; message he was sent to deliver,
or is proved to have brought back, as ambassador or herald,
either from a friendly or hostile nation, their reply in a false form,--
against all such there shall be laid an indictment for breaking the law
by sinning against the sacred messages [apang-ellô]
and injunctions of Hermes1 and Zeus, and an assessment shall be made of the penalty they shall suffer or pay,
Note 1 Son, and herald, of Zeus, and a master of speech (and of lies).
B. Plato, Laws [941b] Athenian
[941b] if convicted. Theft of property is uncivilized, open robbery is shameless:
neither of these has any of the sons of Zeus practiced, through delight in fraud or force.
Let no man, therefore, be deluded concerning this
or persuaded either by poets
or by any perverse myth-mongers
into the belief that, when he thieves or forcibly robs,
he is doing nothing shameful,
but just what the gods themselves do.

Note: 1 1 Cp.Plat. Rep 378 ff., Plat. Rep. 388 ff. Hermes is specially in mind, as notorious for his thefts and frauds; cp. Homer Iliad 5. 390; 24. 395, etc

Poi-êtês A. maker, mêchanêmatôn, inventor, II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e ; p. kainôn dramatôn, tragôidiôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech.

Used with: hupo-kritês, I. interpreter or expounder, I. interpreter or expounder, 2. of an orator, one who delivers, recites, declaimer, rhapsôidoi; rhapsodist,

C. [941c] and this the lawgiver, as it behoves him, knows better than the whole tribe [symphony] of poets.
1) He, therefore, that hearkens [peithô] [pist-euô] to our speech
[Logos] is blessed, and deserves blessing for all time
........ He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.
2) but he that hearkens not shall, in the next place, be holden by this law:--
........ He that believes not shall be damned.

Apisteô to be apistos, and so, II. = apeitheô, to disobey, tini Hdt., attic: -absol. to be disobedient, refuse to comply

D. The Bible and minimal common sense EXCLUDES fabricators, mechanics or craftsmen (Rev 18:22) from the church. Peter says that it proves one a false teacher. Furthermore, as the APISTOS who rejects baptism is called a traitor because he rejects the Word of God Whom they claim "IS quite competent to speak for Himself," the authors and composers repudiate God as incompetent.

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: 2 Pet 1:3

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. 2 Pet 1:4

Peter told the people to be baptized and save themselves from the CROOKED generation: that points to morally twisted people and the skolion singers. Corruption which we need to ESCAPE is.

G5356 phthora fthor-ah' From G5351; decay, that is, ruin (spontaneous or inflicted, literally or figuratively):corruption, destroy, perish

G5351 phtheirō fthi'-ro Probably strengthened from φθίω phthiō (to pine or waste): properly to shrivel or wither, that is, to spoil (by any process) or (genitive) to ruin (especially figuratively by moral influences, to deprave): corrupt (self), defile, destroy.

G5353 phthoggos fthong'-gos From G5350 ; utterance, that is, a musical note (vocal or instrumental):—sound.

Phthegma: 2. of other sounds, as of birds, cries; of a bull, roaring, Id.Hipp.1215; brontas ph. thueias ph. the grinding of the mortar, Ar.Pax235; of musical notes, Id.Av.683 (lyr.), Pl.Lg.812d; of the nightingale's song, Ar.Av.204, 223.

The Hebrew corrupt or pollute also defines music:

H2490 châlal khaw-lal' figuratively to profane (a person, place or thing),denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute): begin, defile,break, defile, take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure:
for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 2 Pet 1:10

For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Pet 1:11

1 Corinthians 1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

The Spirit is not something that gives preachers "visions" or make their body twitch. Jesus said MY WORDS are SPIRIT and they are LIFE (John 6:63).

The SPIRIT in Ephesians 5:19 is the WORD OF CHRIST in Colossians 3:16. Paul credited a mouth to mouth revelation of Scripture validated by supernatural signs: anyone who further expounds it by adding or subtracting betrays God and considers Him an incompetent fool.

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. 1 Pet 1:11
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. Rev 19:10
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

Confirmed is:
Bebaioo (g950) beb-ah-yo'-o; from 949; to stabilitate (fig.): - confirm, (e-) stablish.
Ro.15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God,
to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: [This was the PREdestinated purpose]

Col.2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith,
as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

1 Cor. 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift;
............ waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 2Co.1:21
Chrio (g5548) khree'-o; prob. akin to 5530 through the idea of contact; to smear or rub with oil, i.e. (by impl.) to consecrate to an office or religious service: - anoint.
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1Pe.2:5
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;
that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 1Pe.2:9

God Writes: I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him. Is.57:19

We Recite: By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. Heb.13:15

Paul defined that as "that which is written or Scripture" (Rom 15); Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Eph 5; Col 3); The Spirit of Christ which is the Word of Christ (John 6:63).

Continually means at all times: Not necessarily in houses:

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. Mk.5:5
And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. Lu.24:53A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. Ac.10:2

Only believers who are Baptized (1) accept the sacrifice and (2) are washed can enter into the Body of Christ where we come boldly before the throne of grace--one at a time--to worship in the PLACE of the human spirit. Whatever we do in "houses built by human hands" or by the "works of human hands" it is NOT worship in the SPIRIT.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Heb.1:9

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 A holy spirit.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb.10:22

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Heb.12:24

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 1Pe.1:2

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for A clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1 Pet 3:21

1 Corinthians 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end,
..........that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are washed in our spirit when our bodies are washed in Water. Until we die we are washed by Water and the Word or perhaps Water OF the Word which is FREE and cannot be sold.

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col.2:7
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; Heb.2:3

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. Heb.13:9

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: 2 Pe.1:19

1 Cor. 1:9 God is faithful,
............ by whom ye were called
............ unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Koinonia (g2842) koy-nohn-ee'-ah; from 2844; partnership, i.e. (lit.) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: - (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-) distribution, fellowship.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. Acts 2:41

And they continued stedfastly
in the apostles doctrine
and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread,
and in prayers. Ac.2:42

Distributing to the necessity of saints;
given to hospitality. Ro.12:13

Paul denies that there is a law of giving and the historical church suggested that those who had prospered during the week give to the DESTITUTE but only if they were willing.

Creia (g5532) khri'-ah; from the base of 5530 or 5534; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by impl.) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution: - business, lack, necessary (-ity), need (- ful), use, want.
Hospitality means to be "fond of guests." That excludes people who want to MOVE IN to take advantage of your gift or loan of necessity.

Now, that Jesus Christ is our Teacher and His Grace was given in the form of teaching and we are commanded to teach that which has been taught, it IS possible to teach the same thing is we teach THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN:

1 Cor. 1:10 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.

Now, follow the plot I have charted Romans 15 which is directly parallel to the "singing" passages in Ephesians and Colossians. Paul did not mention SINGING as an external ritual but ODEING which defines PSALMOS as "cantillation" which fits Pauls black text on white paper to SPEAK and TEACH and ADMONISH:

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

SPEAK THE SAME THINGS MEANS Speak that which is written. Paul makes that point in all of his letters and 1 Corinthaisn 1 defines the TEACHING-SPEAKING function WITHOUT using the word SING because we know for a fact that SINGING AS AN ACT OF WORSHIP WAS ADDED IN THE YEAR 373.

Paul used the word SING and MELODY only in those churches AFFLICTED with the worship of Apollo (Abaddon) and the Muses. Because letters were circulated, no one could grasp the idea of MAKING MUSIC

It would have NOT been tolerated in the Jewish Synagogue.
It would not have been tolerated in the Greek Ekklesia or synagogue.

1 Corinthians 1:11 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.

G2054 Eris Of uncertain affinity; a quarrel, that is, (by implication) wrangling:--contention, debate, strife, variance.

See above: Erist-ikos A. eager for strife or battle 2. involving a contest (or perh. debate), pros ton dialektikon, technê sophistry, sullogismos, logos, sophism, fallacy, II. esp.fond of wrangling or arguing.

Playto, Cratylus says

"the part of appropriative, coercive, hunting art which hunts animals, land animals, tame animals, man, privately, FOR PAY, is paid in CASH, claims to GIVE education, and is a hunt after rich and promising youths, must--so our present argument concludes--be called SOPHISTRY.

1 Cor. 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith,
............ I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1 Cor. 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you?
............ or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

1 Cor. 1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

1 Cor. 1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

1 Cor. 1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas:
............ besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

It is not possible to see the antecedant and claim that Paul did not preach baptism as the punch line for getting the value Jesus Christ put into baptism. Paul was not sent to BAPTIZE IN HIS ONE NAME: when Paul baptized, he baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Perhaps others did too but they knew from "apprentice baptism" that they were baptized into the name of the baptizer who might be a Master Tentmaker who would not reveal HIS mysteries without a binding relationship. See this document for further explanation.

1 Cor. 1:17 For Christ
.......... ..sent me not to baptize,
............ but to preach the gospel:
............ not with wisdom of words,
............ lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Jesus is said to have baptized but we know that Jesus came NOT to baptize: his disciples did the baptizing. Martin Luther defines Sola Fide as Sola Scriptura becaues Scripture defines the object of our faith. Because Scripture commands baptism we must be baptized as the WORK of God.

Paul speaks of the MANY preachers trained in the theater (by saying that he was not). They could easily trump the sober, clear-speaking NON performing artist.

1 Cor. 1:18 For the preaching of the cross
............ is to them that perish, foolishness;
............ but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Cor. 1:19 For it is written,
............ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
............ and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Paul continues to point to Isaiah 33 to prove that Jesus would put down all of those whose profession was to "take away the key to knowledge" in order to oppress people and intimidate people to PAY for someone to do RELIGIOUS RITUALS which were LADED BURDENS. Jesus points to Isaiah and the similar passage in Ezekiel 33 to identify the SECTARIAN HYPOCRITES as rfeligious "speakers, singers, musicians and other operatives." In Revelation 18 John calls them SORCERERS who deceived the whole world. That means that single speakers, singers and musicians TAKE AWAY THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE.

Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. Isa 33:13
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.

Jesus identified the hypocrites by pointing to Isaiah and Ezekiel: hypocrites were speakers, singers and musicians.

Hypocrĭta or -es = hupokritês. I. A mime who accompanied the delivery of an actor by gestures, Suet. Ner. 24; Quint. 2, 17, 12; 11, 3, 7.-- II. In eccl. Lat., a hypocrite, Vulg. Job, 8, 13; id. Matt. 6, 2; id. Luc. 12, 56 al.

Chŏrŏ cĭthărista , ae, m., = choro kitharistês, I. he who accompanied the chorus on the cithara, Suet. Dom. 4

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrites hope shall perish: Job 8:13

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Matt 6:2

hupo-kritês , I .interpreter or expounder, II. in Att., one who plays a part on the stage, actor, 2. of an orator, one who delivers, recites, declaimer, Rhapsoides: A reciter of epic poems, professional, chanters, Epic poets rhaption epeon aoido [singer, minstrel, bard] Homer as en nearois humnoisaoidên, rhapsantes

Q. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Isa 33:14

H2611 chânêph khaw-nafe' From H2610 ; soiled (that is, with sin), impious: hypocrite (-ical)
H2613 chănûphâh khan-oo-faw' Feminine from H2610 ; impiety: profaneness.
H2612 chôneph kho'-nef From H2610 ; moral filth, that is, wickedness: hypocrisy.

A. He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; Isa 33:15

He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Isa 33:16

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. Isa 33:17

Thine heart shall meditate terror [a bugbear, idol] . Where is the scribe? [roll keeper] where is the receiver? [Shekel collector] where is he that counted [celebrate, commune, mark] the towers? [pulpits] Isa 33:18

Mediate terror:

Hagah (h1897) haw-gaw'; a prim. root [comp. 1901]; to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by impl. to ponder: - imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, * sore, speak, study, talk, utter.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Is.59:3

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. Is.59:11
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Is.59:13

A Receiver is a skekel collector:

Shaqal (h8254) shaw-kal'; a prim. root; to suspend or poise (espec. in trade): - pay, receive (-r), spend, * throughly, weigh.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Is.55:2

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zec.11:12

Ashaq (h6231) aw-shak'; a prim. root (comp. 6229); to press upon, i. e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow: - get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress ([-ion], -or), to violence (wrong).

HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. Am.4:1

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1

Wherefore do ye spend (shaqal) money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55: 2

These towers are:
Pinnah (h6438) pin-naw'; fem. of 6434; an angle; by impl. a pinnacle; fig. a chieftain: - bulwark, chief, corner, stay, tower, PULPIT

Migdal (g4026) mig-dawl'; also (in plur.) fem. megdalah mig- daw- law'; from 1431; a tower (from its size or height); by anal. a rostrum;

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. Is.19:13

Gadal (h1431) gaw-dal'; a prim. root; prop. to twist [comp. 1434], i. e. to be (caus. make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride): - advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be (-come, do, give, make, wax), great (-er, come to... estate, / things), grow (up), increase, lift up, magnify (-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly [spoken], tower.

See Isaiah 30 in the LXX

And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day,
when many shall perish,
and when the towers (g4026) shall fall. Isaiah 30:25

And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26 LXX

Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath; the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire. Isaiah 30:27 LXX

And his breath [Spirit], as rushing water in a valley, reach reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them and overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

and the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX

For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31 LXX

And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX

1 Cor. 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
............ where is the disputer of this world?
............ hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Tektonos 3. master in any art, as in gymnastics, Pi.N.5.49; of poets, tektones sophoi (sc. epeôn) Id.P.3.113; tektones eupalamôn humnôn Cratin.70 (ap.Ar.Eq.530); tektones kômôn, i.e. the choreutai [Choral dancer], Pi.N. 3.4; t. nôdunias, i.e. a physician, Id.P.3.6; dexias cheros ergon, dikaias tektonos a true workman, A.Ag.1406.

Thalmon: inner rooms or shrines. IV. used of certain mystic shrines or chapels, sacred to Apis,

Pindar, Nemean 3[1] Queenly Muse, our mother! I entreat you, come in the sacred month of Nemea to the much-visited Dorian island of Aegina. For beside the waters of the Asopus young men are waiting, craftsmen of honey-voiced [5] victory-songs, seeking your voice. Various deeds thirst for various things; but victory in the games loves song most of all, the most auspicious attendant of garlands and of excellence. [9] Send an abundance of it, from my wisdom; [10] begin, divine daughter, an acceptable hymn to the ruler of the cloud-filled sky, and I will communicate it by the voices of those singers and by the lyre. The hymn will have a pleasant toil, to be the glory of the land where the ancient Myrmidons lived, whose marketplace, famous long ago, [15] Aristocleides, through your ordinance, did not stain with dishonor by proving himself too weak in the strenuous [17] course of the pancratium

Sophos

A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, harmatêlatas s. Pi.P.5.115, cf. N.7.17; kubernêtês A.Supp.770 ; mantis Id.Th.382 ; oiônothetas S.OT484 (lyr.); of a sculptor, E.Fr.372; even of hedgers and ditchers, Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kitharai s. E.IT1238 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Ra.896 (lyr.), etc.; tên technên -ôteros ib.766; peri ti Pl.Lg.696c ; glôssêi s. S.Fr.88.10; sophos ho polla eidôs phuai, mathontes de labroi Pi.O.2.86 .

Pindar Olympian 1 For Hieron of Syracuse Single Horse Race 476 B. C.

[1] Water is best, and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth. But if, my heart, you wish to sing of contests, [5] look no further for any star warmer than the sun, shining by day through the lonely sky, and let us not proclaim any contest greater than Olympia. From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom [sophos] of poets,1 so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron, [12] who wields the scepter of law in Sicily of many flocks, reaping every excellence at its peak, and is glorified [15] by the choicest music, which we men often play around his hospitable table. Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts

Clement on Sophists

Inflated with this art of theirs, the wretched Sophists, babbling away in their own jargon; toiling their whole life about the division of names and the nature of the composition and conjunction of sentences, show themselves greater chatterers than turtle-doves; scratching and tickling, not in a manly way, in my opinion, the ears of those who wish to be tickled.

"A river of silly words-not a dropping; "

just as in old shoes, when all the rest is worn and is falling to pieces, and the tongue alone remains. The Athenian Solon most excellently enlarges, and writes:-

"Look to the tongue, and to the words of the gazing man,
But you look on no work that has been done;

But each one of you walks in the steps of a fox,
And in all of you is an empty mind."

This, I think, is signified by the utterance of the Saviour, "The foxes have holes, but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head. " [Matt. viii. 20; Luke ix. 58.]

For on the believer alone, who is separated entirely from the rest,

who by the Scripture are called wild beasts, rests the head of the universe, the kind and gentle Word, "who taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

For the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain; " [Job v. 13; 1 Cor. iii. 19, 20; Ps. xciv. 11.] the Scripture calling those the wise (sofou/j) who are skilled in words and arts, sophists (sofista/j) Whence the Greeks also applied the denominative appellation of wise and sophists to those who were versed in anything Cratinus accordingly, having in the Archilochii enumerated the poets, said:-

"Such a hive of sophists have ye examined."
And similarly Iophon, the comic poet, in Flute-playing Satyrs, says:-

"For there entered
A band of sophists, all equipped."

Of these and the like, who devote their attention to empty words, the divine Scripture most excellently says,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." [ Isa. xxix. 14; 1 Cor. i. 19.]

Chapter IV.-Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed from God.
Homer calls an artificer wise; and of Margites, if that is his work, he thus writes:-
.........."Him, then, the Gods made neither a delver nor a ploughman,
..........Nor in any other respect wise; but he missed every art."

Hesiod further said the musician Linus was "skilled in all manner of wisdom; "and does not hesitate to call a mariner wise, seeing he writes:-
........."Having no wisdom in navigation."

And Daniel the prophet says, "The mystery which the king asks,it is not in the power of the wise, the Magi, the diviners, the Gazarenes, to tell the king; but it is God in heaven who revealeth it." [Dan. ii. 27, 28.]

Here are the sophists who have been ELEMINATED. Sophis-teia , hê, A. sophistry, D.S.12.53, Plu.2.78f, D.L.2.113, etc.; opp. sophia