The Beginning of Musical Idolatry

He gave me the holy shrine.

He gave me the holy priestess of heaven.

He gave me the resounding musical instrument.

He gave me the art of song.

He gave me the art of the elder.

He gave me the kindling of strife.

He gave me counseling.

He gave me heart-soothing.

He gave me the giving of judgements.

He gave me the making of decisions."

Let the young men show the might of their weapons;

Let the little children laugh and sing.

Let all Uruk be festive!

Let the high priest greet the Boat of Heaven with song.

Let him utter prayers.

Let him slaughter oxen and sheep.

Let him pour beer out of the cup.

Let the drum and tambourine resound.

Let the sweet tigi-music be played.

Let all the lands proclaim my noble name.

Let my people sing my praises.

Job tells this ancient story of people who sought fertility or the favor of the gods with musical rituals: 

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21: 7
Their seed is established in their sight with them,
        and their offspring before their eyes. Job 21: 8

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Job 21: 9
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. Job 21: 10 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21: 11
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21: 12
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21: 13
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Job 21: 14

I have collected 3 dozen versions of this account all of which point to Satan as the source of music and show that the Lamech family as Genun (Geni) was used by Satan to organize mixed-sex choirs, use of musical instruments and "putting on of apparel" to seduce the people away from the Living Word.  Click for the exact paralell moses used to warn you about Satan's musical deception.

Recognitions of Clement

"But when all these things were done, men turned again to impiety; [There is a similar chapter in Homily IX. 7, but in a discourse: on the following day.-R.] and on this account a law was given by God to instruct them in the manner of living.

But in process of time, the worship of God and righteousness were corrupted by the unbelieving and the wicked, as we shall show more fully by and by.

Moreover, perverse and erratic religions were introduced, to which the greater part of men gave themselves up,  by occasion of holidays and solemnities, instituting drinkings and banquets, following pipes, and flutes, and harps, and diverse kinds of musical instruments, and indulging themselves in all kinds of drunkenness and luxury.

Hence every kind of error took rise; hence they invented groves and altars, fillets and victims, and after drunkenness they were agitated as if with mad emotions.

By this means power was given to the demons to enter into minds of this sort, so that they seemed to lead insane dances and to rave like Bacchanalians; hence were invented the gnashing of teeth, and bellowing from the depth of their bowels; hence a terrible countenance and a fierce aspect in men, 
        so that he whom drunkenness had subverted and a demon had instigated, 
        was believed by the deceived and the erring to be filled with the Deity.

Paul regulated the women in the ekklesia because they were called The Mad Women of Corinth.  "Straight" men were never in a more polite society likely to fall under the spell. Enthousi-astikos , ê, on, inspired, phusis Pl.Ti.71e ; esp. by music, sophia divination, Plu.Sol.12 ; e. ekstasis II. Act., inspiring, exciting, of certain kinds of music, Arist.Pol.1341b34; nosêmata manika   Ekstasis, 2. distraction of mind, from terror, astonishment, anger. 4. trance, kai mania b. drunken excitement "Drunk with wine" can also mean 2. of persons, to be intoxicated with passion, pride, etc., hupo tês Aphroditês Thuias, ados, hê:- A. inspired, possessed woman, esp. Bacchant Manikos , ê, on, ( [mania] ) of or for madness, mad, blepei manikon ti she has a madwoman's eye, madness, manikon symptom of madness, II. enthusiasm, inspired frenzy, m. Dionusou para E.Ba.305 ; apo Mousôn katokôchê te kai m. Pl.Phdr. 245a ; theia m., opposite sôphrosunê anthrôpinê,  "The development both of religion and of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (H. Bamfort Parkes, Of Gods and Men, p. 30). "Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the gods, and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed. H. Bamfort Parks, of Gods and Men

Chapter VII.-Sacrificial Orgies.

"But they did not cease to worship images, by reason of the evil intelligence of the magicians, who found excuses for them, which had power to constrain them to the foolish worship For, establishing this things by magical ceremonies, they assigned them feasts from sacrifices, libations, flutes, and shoutings,

by means ofj which senseless men, being deceived, and their kingdom being taken ofrom them, yet did not desist from the worship that they had taken up with.

To such an extent did they prefer error, on account of its pleasantness, before truth.

They also howl after their sacrificial surfeit, their soul from the depth, as it were by dreams, forewarning them of the punishment that is to befall such deeds of theirs.

CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WAS TO PROFANE HIS NAME.

Following the thesis that Moses wrote an inversion of the Babylonian accounts to prepare people doomed to return to Babylonia, we need to pick up on Nimrod who arrives on the scene just off the Ark.

Gen. 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Gen. 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 

Before means to be enraged, to breath hard, wrath: Nimrod was

Gen. 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 

As Satan used "Genun" as a composite of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah, he used Nimrod as a tool to set up the system of idolatry to Satan-- paganism. To fool people that he was Messiah (Genesis 3:15) he married his own mother, Semiramis, and from that is clearly proclaimed that Semiramis is descendant that they said at Genesis 3:15.

As the "mother--wife" counterfeit, Nimrod could be both God, Son and a savior. That is why Jesus was the SON of a FATHER.  This is also the story of Gnosticism in The Origin of the World and the Hypostasis of the Archon.  Sophia is the Mother but Zoe is called "the beast and female instructing principle." This is also the origin of the mother and child in Catholicism where "Mary is the mother of God." 

The word "Lucifer" (connect Zoe, Eve) is derived from David's praise word, halal.  This has the same meaning as making yourself vile from the word Chalal.  Any effort to "bring you into God's presence" is to treat Him like a lover whom you need to worship or PROP up with your rituals. That is why God said that He hated theiri music whatever their "mental attitude." This overtly  claims the role of Jesus Christ our only, competent Mediator. The Hebrew h2490 is the Chalal version of halal which means to make self vile and has the meaning of Lucifer.

Ezek. 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezek. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 

Ezek. 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

The Image of Jealousy just before John calls the rhetoricians, singers and musicians as "lusted after fruits" under the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17-18) he wrote:

AND I saw (present tense!) another sign in heaven [image of jealousy], great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. Re 15:1

Morris Silver: The image of jealousy (Ezek 8:3) in the LXX and Old Latin may be trnslated as "statue/image of the trader/buyer." Torczyner suggests that the compound term sha mala was transmitted from Assyrian (not Babylonian) into Hebrew as semel, with sh being pronounced as s. Thus, again, the "image of jealousy" whose presence in the sanctuary enraged Ezekiel was a businessman, not an idol.

The Mark of the Beast has this connection:

Incentor , o-ris, m. [id.] , one who sets the tune or begins to sing, a precentor, singer I. Lit.: carminis, Paul. Nol. Carm. 15, 32 : [1] incentore [2] canam [3] Phoebo [4] Musisque [5] magistris, Avien. Perieg. 895 ; Isid. 6, 9, 13.--

II. Trop., an [A] inciter, exciter: [B] igneus [C] turbarum, Amm. 15, 1, 2 : civilis belli, Oros. 5, 19 : rebellionis [renewal of war] totius, id. 6, 11 . Flamen Hislop

Incensor I. one who kindles or sets fire to, II. Trop., an inciter, instigator: turbarum,

[2] Căno I. Neutr., to utter melodious notes, to sing, sound, play.  2. Of the faulty delivery of an orator, to speak in a sing-song tone: inclinată ululantique voce more Asiatico canere,  once canituri,Vulg. Apoc. 8, 13 )

h2490 Chalal

"The traditional Jewish interpretation of this verse implies that it marked the beginning of idolatry, i.e. that men starting dubbing "Lord" things that were mere creatures. This is because the previous generations, notably Adam, had already "begun calling upon the name of the Lord", which forces us to interpret הוחל huchal not as "began" but as the homonym "profanated". In this light, Enosh suggests the notion of a humanity (Enoshut) thinking of itself as an absolute rather than in relation to God (Enosh vs. Adam). Wikipedia Adam Clark: Verse 26. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.] The marginal reading is, Then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord; which words are supposed to signify that in the time of Enos the true followers of God began to distinguish themselves, and to be distinguished by others, by the appellation of sons of God;         those of the other branch of Adam's family, among whom the Divine worship was not observed, being distinguished by the name, children of men. It must not be dissembled that many eminent men have contended that ljwh huchal, which we translate began, should be rendered began profanely, or then profanation began, and from this time they date the origin of idolatry. Most of the Jewish doctors were of this opinion, and Maimonides has discussed it at some length in his Treatise on Idolatry; as this piece is curious, and gives the most probable account of the origin and progress of idolatry, I shall insert it here. "In the days of Enos the sons of Adam erred with great error, and the counsel of the wise men of that age became brutish, and Enos himself was (one) of them that erred; and their error was this: they said, Forasmuch as God hath created these stars and spheres to govern the world, and set them on high, and imparted honour unto them, and they are ministers that minister before him; it is meet that men should laud, and glorify, and give them honour. For this is the will of God, that we magnify and honour whomsoever he magnifieth and honoureth; even as a king would have them honoured that stand before him, and this is the honour of the king himself. When this thing was come up into their hearts they began to build temples unto the stars, and to offer sacrifice unto them, and to laud and glorify them with words, and to worship before them, that they might in their evil opinion obtain favour of the Creator; and this was the root of idolatry, &c. The historic understanding was that homosexuality was the major music-induced ACT of this early period along with beastiality. Ganymede: GANYMEDE stands for anybody who, like his Two-Spirit native brother, the coupan of the sub-Arctic Konyagas, stands "drinking in the light of the MOON, the stars, absorbing all its brilliance and splendors to become a man of god." "Upon hearing that Ganymede was to be cup bearer as well as Zeus' lover, the infinitely jealous Hera was outraged. Therefor Zeus set Ganymede's image among the stars as the constellation Aquarius [This IS the age of Aquarius], the water carrier. Aquarius was originally the Egyptian god over the Nile. The Egyptian god poured water not wine from a flagon. "All of Zeus' scandalous liaisons have allegorical meanings. Zeus' torrid affair with Ganymede was a religious justification for homosexuality within the Greek culture.  Before the popularity of the Zeus and Ganymede myth spread, the only toleration for sodomy was an external form of goddess worship. Cybele's male devotees tried to achieve unity with her by castrating themselves and dressing like women. . "While Platonic love needed women for regeneration purposes (grow the attendance) the philosopher used this myth to justify his sexual feelings towards his all male pupils.

 JUDE REFERRING TO THE BOOK OF ENOCH AND OTHER DOCUMENTS.

There are at least three dozen versions of the Book of Enoch: the fatal sin was being seduced by Satan by mixed-sex choirs, instrumental music and women "putting on of apparel" which has a liturgical meaning. Once seduced they fell into the vile homosexuality for which the music and theatrical persona is marked.

Of these ancient sins, Jude quotes Enoch:

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Ju.1:10

Phtheiro (g5351) fthi'-ro; prob. strength. from phthio, (to pine or waste): prop. to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (gen.) to ruin (espec. fig. by mor. influences, to deprave): - corrupt (self), defile, destroy Pharmakon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, [Used by Circe the mother of harlots]

Rev 18:21Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore. 22 The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. 23The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.  Epôidê , Ion. and poet. epaoidê , hê, A. song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell Od.19.457 Pi.P.4.217 ou pros iatrou sophou thrênein epôidas pros tomônti pêmati S.Aj. 582 ; of the Magi, Hdt.1.132, 

He then cuts the victim limb from limb into portions, and, after boiling the flesh, spreads the softest grass, trefoil usually, and places all of it on this. [3] When he has so arranged it, a Magus comes near and chants over it the song of the birth of the gods, as the Persian tradition relates it; for no sacrifice can be offered without a Magus. Then after a little while the sacrificer carries away the flesh and uses it as he pleases.

This has the same meaning as h2490 Chalal which we have posted above. I have posted a long list of similar words which defines music as that which abominates in this paper.

For true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Re.19:2

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Ro.1:24

Akatharsia (g167) ak-ath-ar-see'-ah; from 169; impurity (the quality), phys. or mor.: - uncleanness.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Rom 1:26

JUBAL HANDLES IN THE SAME PSALLO SENSE.  

h8610 Taphas The HANDLE concept to prove that instruments were WITHOUT AUTHORITY.

Fact or fiction, the modern collape into musical legalism is both superstitious and divine madness out of the "imagination of man which is only evile continually."  Spiritual warfare demands weapons against the spirit:

An instrument, of whatever kind, is a paradoxical fixing in visible form of this possibility of bodily morphology. A tool performs work upon an object in the world, enabling it to be reshaped and re-produced. As its name suggests, an instrument also works as a mediation: it is instrumental. 

But the object of the work performed by an instrument is the body itself. An instrument is an image of this body transformed, or rather of its transformability, a congelation of the idea of the body’s possibility of remaking itself in sound.

Instruments provide precipitations in space of the many different postures and phantasms of what I have elsewhere called the ‘voice-body’ (Connor 2000). These postures are usually ecstatic, involving various forms of stretching, twisting, unbalancing or doubling of the body. Here we might note that the very word instrument (from Latin instruere, to instruct) has acquired overtones suggestive not only of enacted purpose but also of torture.

The singing bones and skins of legend and ballad retain this connection between suffering and music. When the body has become an instrument of torture to its owner, it can then become a musical instrument to preserve and recall that suffering. Whisper Music, Stephen Connor

Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) Ergon  [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêïaerga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act, 3. musical instrument

Polemeios: warlike, aoida war-note, of the trumpet, B.17.4
aoid-ê  5. = eppsdê, spell, incantatio 

Of Jubal who handled musical instruments "without authority." Organum -Of musical instruments, a pipe, Vulg. Gen. 4, 21;

Qayin (h7014) kah'-yin; the same as 7013 (with a play upon the affinity to 7069); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Pal., and of an Oriental tribe: - Cain, Kenite (-s).

Qiynah (h7015) kee-naw'; from 6969; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments): - lamentation.

Qayin (h7013) kah'-yin; from 6969 in the orig. sense of fixity; a lance (as striking fast): - spear. 

Quwn (h6969) koon; a prim. root; to strike a musical note, i. e. chant or wail (at a funeral): - lament, mourning woman.

Ergon  [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêï 3. a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,

Polemeios: warlike, aoida war-note, of the trumpet, B.17.4
aoid-ê  5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation

Orgi-a rites of the Cabeiri [Jubal] and Demeter. most freq. of the rites of Dionysus, orgia Mousôn [dirty adultereses] Ar.Ra.356

Frogs

Let him be mute and stand aside from our sacred dances
who has no experience of mystical language, or has not cleansed his mind
Who never has seen and never has danced in the rites of the noble Muses
Nor ever has been inducted into the Bacchic mysteries of beef-eating Cratinus [Rom 14]

Or any politician who bites off the pay of the poets
For being ridiculed in the ancestral rites of Dionysus.  
All these I warn, and twice I warn, and thrice I warn again,
stand aside from our mystical dances; but as for you: arouse the song
and the night-long dances, that belong to our festival here.

Moving ahead to the fall from grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7) and sentenced them to return to their place of origin into captivity and death.  Moses wrote an inverted version of the Babylonian myths--you can read them here--to prepare Israel to be carried into slavery.  At the end of the cycle John sees the Babylon Harlot as the end-time MARK of the church: Inanna the prostitute goddess stole the powers of the eldership, musical worship and homosexuality.  She used people to build temples and then sowed discord to tear them down.  She shows up in Revelation 17-18 as the mother of harlots who uses "fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and musicians and loves to sow discomfort and discord.  She triumps over the lion as "the Lion of the Tribe of Judah."  Click to see her defined.

"When tribes grew too large for effective co-operation (and inbred), they often became subdivided into smaller kinship groups (clans, sibs, gentes) which continued to regard each other as close allies. Government was exercised by individual chieftains assisted by councils of elders" (Of Gods and Men, H.B.Parkes, p. 26).

"In this fashion evey common tribal interest--the recurrence of the seasons, the increase of the food supply, successful hunting--was likely to become embodied

in some regularly repeated ceremony, which usually included group dancing, singing, and feasting.

Besides enabling men to express, and thereby to allay, ANGER and ANXIETY, such ceremonies also promoted tribal UNITY and strengthened the loyalty of the individual to TRIBAL TRADITION, for the emotional excitement they aroused had the effect of breaking down the barriers between individuals  and thus fusing all tribesmen into a collective whole. Meanwhile, whole systems of magical devices were gradually elaborated." (Parkes, p. 29)

'Certain members of a tribe, marked out either by unusual skills or by some emotional abnormality, ususally became particularly adept at these operations, and gradually assumed specialized functions. RELEASED from the duty of hunting, and concentrating on the practice of MAGIC, the shaman, SORCERER, or medicine man was the world's first professional." (Parkes, p. 29).

can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men, p. 30).

"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the gods, and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed.

Gal 5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

Gregory Nazianzen
Nor are we concerned with Phrygian mutilations and flutes and Corybantes, and all the ravings of men concerning Rhea, consecrating people to the mother of the gods, and being initiated into such ceremonies as befit the mother of such gods as these. Nor have we any carrying away of the Maiden, nor wandering of Demeter, nor her intimacy with Celei and Triptolemi and Dragons; nor her doings and sufferings ... for I am ashamed to bring into daylight that ceremony of the night, and to make a sacred mystery of obscenity. Eleusis knows these things, and so do those who are eyewitnesses of what is there guarded by silence, and well worthy of it. Nor is our commemoration one of Dionysus, and the thigh that travailed with an incomplete birth, as before a head had travailed with another; nor of the hermaphrodite god, nor a chorus of the drunken and enervated host; nor of the folly of the Thebans which honours him; nor the thunderbolt of Semele which they adore. Nor is it the harlot mysteries of Aphrodite, who, as they themselves admit, was basely born and basely honoured; nor have we here Phalli and Ithyphalli, shameful both in form and action; nor Taurian massacres of strangers; nor blood of Laconian youths shed upon the altars, as they scourged themselves with the whips; and in this case alone use their courage badly, who honour a goddess, and her a virgin. For these same people both honour effeminacy, and worship boldness.

Paul wanted women silent and sedentary because: 1Tim. 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.  Wrath is the ORGY brought on when evil women "rule over." Doubting is the doubtful disputations of the marketplace (Rom 14) so the ekklesia or school of the Bible could take place excluding self-pleasure which excludes music in Romans 15.

^{Note 11} There was a temple of Rhea [ZOE] in Phrygia, in which at her festivals people mutilated themselves to do her honour. The flutes alluded to served to turn the thoughts of the sufferes from the pain of the operation. 

The Corybantes were the ministers of the goddess, who led the wild orgies of her worship. It is believed that there is an allusion to this practice of self-mutilation in Galat. v. 12. So at least S. Jerome, S. Ambrose, and all the Greek Fathers take the passage.  

The ancient view was that Adam's sin was sodomy.

Hippolytus Book V
Apocryphon of John
Testament of Solomon

PROPHESIED Isaiah 3: see notes in Anderson Psallo Part One.

Boys: Effemino II.Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate, A.Womanish, effeminate,
            Histrio, stage-player, actor, mimus, boaster, used with
            Scaena, 1. Of a place like a scene of a theatre, school of rhetoric, display of eloquence.
B. In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust: pathicus, Cinaedos: a sodomite, catamite, one who dances publicly

PROPHESIED TO BE TRIED ON JESUS (Psalm 41 DSS)

They tried that on Jesus:

Matt. 11:16 But whereunto shall I liken [MEN] this generation? 
        It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Matt. 11:17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced;
        we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
 saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced;
        we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Plato, Protogoras: All distinguish between the low class in the market-place and the decent, educated people.

[347c] But if he does not mind, let us talk no more of poems and verses, but consider the points on which I questioned you at first, Protagoras, and on which I should be glad to reach, with your help, a conclusion.

For it seems to me that arguing about poetry is comparable to the wine-parties of common market-folk. These people, owing to their inability to carry on a familiar conversation over their wine by means of their own voices and discussions

That includes the performance preaching:
Agoraios  epith. of Artemis and Athena, v. infr.):--
A. in, of, or belonging to the agora, Zeus A. as guardian of popular assemblies,
2. of things, vulgar,
III. generally, proper to the agora, skilled in, suited for forensic speaking
b. agoraios, market-day, IGRom.4.1381 (Lydia). (The distn. agoraios vulgar, agoraios public speaker, drawn by Ammon.
Hupokritikos 2.suited for speaking or delivery, actor's art, acting a part, pretending to. Hupokrites 2. of an orator, poikilos  rhapsodist, pretender, dissembler, hypocrite

Matthew 23:[13]  "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. [14]  "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter

Jesus points to Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33 where Jesus identified the Scribes and Pharisees as "rhetoricians, singers and instrument players."

[347d] such is their lack of education--put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance.

But where the party consists of thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education, you will see neither flute-girls nor dancing-girls nor harp-girls, but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation, and none of these fooleries and frolics--each speaking and listening decently in his turn,

Isaiah III. For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water; [2]  The mighty man, The man of war, The judge, The prophet, The diviner, The elder, [3]  The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter. [4]  I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them Isaiah 3.III. ecce enim Dominator Deus exercituum auferet ab Hierusalem et ab Iuda validum et fortem omne robur panis et omne robur aquae [2] fortem et virum bellatorem iudicem et prophetam et ariolum et senem [3] principem super quinquaginta et honorabilem vultu et consiliarium sapientem de architectis et prudentem eloquii mystici [4] et dabo pueros principes eorum et effeminati dom Prŏphēta and prŏphētes I.a foreteller, soothsayer, This invoved many acerdotes Aegyptiorum, Mysticus, mustikos Vannus  mystica Iacchi, fan borne about in the Bacchic festival, Verg. G. 1, 166  See this See Strabo and the Musical Vile pervert connection 9) Strabo Geography 10.3.13 Corybantes (Phrygian castrate priests of Cybele) in their caverns invented this hide-stretched circlet, (tambourine) and blent its Bacchic revelry with the high-pitched, sweet-sounding breath of Phrygian flutes, and in Rhea's hands placed its resounding noise, to accompany the shouts of the Bacchae, (ev-ah!) Mother and from Mother Rhea frenzied Satyrs obtained it and joined it to the choral dances of the Trieterides, (Triennial Festivals) in whom Dionysus takes delight. Bacchae And in the Palamedes the Chorus says, Thysa, daughter of Dionysus, who on Ida rejoices with his dear mother in the Iacchic revels of tambourines. "This Eve, on account of her having been in the beginning deceived by the serpent, and become the author of sin, the wicked demon, who also is called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, and who works even to this day in those men that are possessed by him invokes as Eve." (Theophilus, p. 105) Boys: Effemino II.Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate, A.Womanish, effeminate,             Histrio, stage-player, actor, mimus, boaster, used with             Scaena, 1. Of a place like a scene of a theatre, school of rhetoric, display of eloquence. B. In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust: pathicus, Cinaedos: a sodomite, catamite, one who dances publicly Outlawed by Paul for the ekklesia or synagogue. XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere [2] unusquisque vestrum proximo suo placeat