By forcing "melody with an instrument" when it is not demanded or so translated John t. Willis intends to say that you must make melody with an instrument when you sing but you must have a good mental attitude.
The Disciples/Christian Church first proposed that 'psallo' MEAN to make music with an instrument when it never means more than pluck with your fingers and NEVER with a plectrum. In fact, if you used this folly and make melody with anything but a fingered string you VIOLATE their direct command and are a divisive sinner.
- They also claimed that God COMMANDED instrumental music in worship in the Old Telstament. Now, they say that if you do NOT then you are disobedien.
- There is no evidence that God commanded any kind of "musical" device at any time or place even when He abandoned them to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai which was a terminal sin.
- If God did not command musical instruments then The Holy Spirit of Christ in Jeremiah 23 says that you blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
No one can read the Old Testament without understand that David radically changed the roles of the Levites from servants into linen-wearing musicians: God did not do that. Christ in Ezekiel insists that David's demoting the Zadok priesthood was when the Levites Went Astray.
See How David was chosen to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed at Mount Sinai and began when the elders fired God and demanded a "senior pastor" to let them worship like the nations.
Melody as tunefulness was not known until the 19th century: then, all you can get is a series of single tones. Harmony at this time would define unison cantillation but never tuneful because none of the Bible is metrical and you cannot sing it.Melody, in music, the aesthetic product of a given succession of pitches in musical time, implying rhythmically ordered movement from pitch to pitch. Melody in Western music by the late 19th century was considered to be the surface of a group of harmonies. The top tone of a chord became a melody tone;
Harmony, In music, the sound of two or more notes heard simultaneously. In a narrower sense harmony refers to the extensively developed system of chords and the rules that govern relations between them in Western music
Melody and rhythm can exist without harmony. By far the greatest part of the world’s music is nonharmonic Alhough the music of ancient Greece consisted entirely of melodies sung in unison or, in the case of voices of unequal range, at the octave, the term harmony occurs frequently in the writings on music at the time
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things wereMusic, Art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music,
written aforetime
were written for our learning, (doctrīna)
(Christians are Disciples: not ritualists)
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be
likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth
glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
[4] quaecumque enim scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt ut per patientiam et consolationem scripturarum spem habeamusHomophōn-ia , hē, in Music, A. unison (v. homophōnos II), Arist.Pol.1263b35 ; “adontōn [sing of, chant] homophōnia”
What is the meaning of Scripture?
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach (dŏcĕo didasko) all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:20
The word for "observe" has no statute of limitations.Does that exclude silly willy and his praise ditties?
Aristot. Pol. 2.1263b. For in one way the state as its unification proceeds will cease to be a state, and in another way, though it continues a state, yet by coming near to ceasing to be one it will be a worse state, just as if one turned a harmony into unison or a rhythm into a single foot.Stoma ,2. esp. the mouth as the organ of speech, speech, utterance e. ex henos s. with one voice, Id.Eq.670. Pl.R.364a, PGiss.36.13 (ii B.C.), Gal.15.763; so hōs aph' henos s. AP11.159 (Lucill.).Speaking of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai:
Romans 10 [6] But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down); [7] or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" [8] But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach: [9] that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [10] For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.Dox-azō , II. magnify, extol, “epi pleon ti hauton d.” Th.3.45, cf. LXX Ex.15.2, al.; “ton theon” Ep.Rom.1.21, al.:—Pass., to be distinguished, held in honour, magnified,
Glōssa , Ion. glassa, 2. tongue, as the organ of speech
2. obsolete or foreign word, which needs explanation, Arist. Rh.1410b12, Po.1457b4, Plu.2.406f: hence Glōssai, title of works by Philemon and others.3. people speaking a distinct language, LXX.Ju.3.8
1. in Music, reed or tongue of a pipe, Aeschin.3.229,
Aeschin. 3 229 But when a man who is made up of words, and those words bitter words and useless—
when such a man takes refuge in “simplicity” and “the facts,”
who could have patience with him?
If you treat him as you might a clarinet, and take out his tongue, you have nothing left!
Aulos pipe, clarionet 2. hollow tube, pipe, groove, peronē tetukto auloisin didumoisi the buckle was furnished with two pipes or grooves (into which the tongue fitted)
Genesis 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?Yes! the universal message is WITHOUT your wives, children and catttle! As "Lucifer":
Ezekiel 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.
Ezekiel 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 (cast down)
Ezekiel 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel 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.
Profane: play the flute, steal people's inheritance, pollute, prostitute.Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (morons)
Those Jesud called "hypocrites" alwayss think they are wise and even inspired.
Sophos , ē, on, A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, harmatēlatas s. Pi.P.5.115, cf. N.7.17; “kubernētēs” A.Supp.770; “mantis” Id.Th.382; Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 also en oiōnois, kithara, E. IT662, 1238 (lyr.Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rising up to PLAY means to play instruments and play sexually: a terminal sin.
ALL modern church music intends to glorify the song writer or the singer even if it is the whole congregation competing to "do their part."
Thuc. 3.45 [6] Fortune too assists the illusion, for she often presents herself unexpectedly, and induces states as well as individuals to run into peril, however inadequate their means; and states even more than individuals, because they are throwing for a higher stake, freedom or empire,
and because when a man has a whole people acting with him,
he magnifies himself out of all reason.
[7] In a word then, it is impossible and simply absurd
to suppose that human nature when bent upon some favourite project
can be restrained either by the strength of law or by any other terror.
This is not a Biblical concept or example.
Rev 5.4.11 Our task is not to promote sowing of musical discord: the church has ONE TASK which is to "teach that which is written for our LEARNING." No theologian is immune from the urge to use proof texts to advance their agenda which is to turn the School of Christ (the Campbells) into a theater for holy entertainment. This is an occasion to prove the statement of Jesus that "doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge" and that Scribes and Pharisees are hypocrites Christ named in Ezekiel 33 as speakers, singers and instrument players: in many Old Testament passges musical instruments was to MARK the preacher for pay and the audience which had no intention of obeying the Words of God. I have added links to the Greek and Latin Text for your own power to "not go out" when they tell you they have the kingdom in a loud, visible, audible and expensive theater.
See Royce Ogle Affirm Danny Dodd
It is not feasible to respond on a blog. There is never more than 5 "melody" translations in an version I could search other than the RSV and these words never mean melody in a tuneful sense which "belongs to the 19th century."
Quick review:
Jacob warned us not to attend the assemblies of Levi not enter their covenant.
Psalms 105:9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;God restated the Abrahamic Covenant but the people refused to listen.
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets,
and of the covenant which God made with our fathers,
saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
They immediately were strongly deluded and fell back into the Egyptian etal Sabazianism
God turned the Levi tribe over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry.
Christ ordained the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. It was
INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word: what disciples do.Christ spoke to the spiritual people through the prophets which the Civil-Military-Clergy complex murdered from the time of Abel. He warned about the Lying pen of the Scribes and defined the Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. In the Ezekiel 33 version He named speakers, singers and instrument players.
EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing. What Disciples do not do
In Isaiah 50 Christ warned about the pluckers or smiters
In Isaiah 55 He told us not to pay for the Word because no man's thoughts are God's Thoughts.
In Isaiah 58 He commanded us not to seek our own pleasure or even speak our own words.
That is why in the Synagogue
Moses was PREACHED
By being READ in the Synagogue each Sabbath.
Christ in Isaiah 55 says you have nothing of value to add and Isaiah 58 forbids you to speak your own words.
Sing and Make Melody
Psallo is never translated as "melody" in a musical sense: it is parallel to "Grace" in Colossians 3:16 both of which are qualities of narrated speech used to teach and admonish.Both melody and grace are something IN THE HEART.
Aristot. Rh. 3.6 ”But for the purpose of conciseness the reverse—use the name instead of the description. [2] You should do the same to express anything foul or indecent; if the foulness is in the description, use the name; if in the name, the description. [3] Use metaphors and epithets by way of illustration, taking care, however, to avoid what is too poetical. .... for in this way amplification may be carried on ad infinitum. This method may be applied to things good and bad, in whichever way it may be useful.Because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai God turned Israel over to worship the starry host. God gave them The Book of The Law to legislate for the lawless. He promised to return them to "beyond Babylon." When the elders fired God He began to carry out the captivity and death sentence: He gave them kings in His anger and took them away in His anger.
Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody “without strings” or “without the lyre”;
for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors,
as for instance, to say that the sound of the trumpet is a melody without the lyre.
The Levites who had been an old infant burning cult in Egypt were later chosen to make warrior chants under the KING and COMMANDERS of the Army. They made war and not worship. The proof texts from the sacrificial system flies in the face of Christ in Spirit wo denied that God commanded sacrifices or burnt off
gs: they came as baggagewhen God abandoned them to worship the starry host.
Christ who speaks through the Prophets and Jesus who fulfilled the prophecies,is the resource for the church which does not make war. The church is built upon the teachings of the Prophets and Apostles.
That means that many of the Psalms were warrior taunt songs to turn the enemy into cowards.
"Hebrew singing or rhymic prose had no fixed meter: "Since in all languages a sentence changes its meaning by mere intonations without adding or removing nounds, verbs or particles, the Syrian scholars who laid the fundament of correct language discovered a way by devising accents... and since these accents are a form of musical modulation, there is no possibliity of learning them except by hearing and through tradition from the master's tongue or the pupils hear. It follows from Bar Hebraeus' statement that the main concern was to secure an unadulterated and unadulterable version of the text This required (a) correct vocalization and (b) correct intonation. (p.87) " Nor is there a constant number of feet in a verse. Hebrew poetry is poetic p;rose. "Hebrew prosedy differes fundamentlly from classical prosody. No poem is written according to a repeating meter scheme.
Classical verse is mechanical; Hebrew verse is dynamic (p 89. Music in Ancient Western OrientCurt Sachs
The word Law or nomos defines a legal form of performance dedicated most often to Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon)
The godly Jews who rested on the Prophets (by Christ) understood:
To the law and to the testimony:Synagogue singing
if they SPEAK not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:20
Dīco , Only speak, only to affirm Lŏquor , 1. To speak out, to say, tell, talk about, mention, utter, name
Testĭmōnĭum , ii, n. testor, I. witness, evidence, attestation, testimony (oral or written):
Christ in Spirit supplied ALL of the Testimony: 2 Cor 3; 1 Peter 1:11; Rev 19:10
" It has been shown in the article Cantillation (Jew. Encyc. iii. 537b) that the desire to read the Scriptures in the manner indicated in Neh. viii. 8 has from time immemorial resulted in the use of some sort of musical declamation for the passages uttered aloud in the synagogue. For reasons very similar to those there discussed, the prayers and praises equally with the lessons have always been thus musically declaimed; and this declamation... the absence of instruments from the synagogue in no way modified the system of the song itself. This presented little that to modern ears would appear worthy the name of melody, being, like the Greek melodies which have been deciphered, entirely of the character of a cantillation; that is, a recitation dependent on the rhythm and sequence of the words of the text instead of on the notes of the tune, and influenced by the syntactical structure of the sentence instead of by the metrical form of the musical phrase. Nor would the style of singing, nasal, shrill, and alternately full of intricate graces and of sudden pressures on emphatic notes, altogether commend itself to Western ears as graceful or harmonious.
John T. Willis: The expression "sing and make melody" [Hebrew is shir and zamar] occurs 12 times in the Hebrew Psalter:
But,
Zamar has nothing to do with modern melody: a series of single tones. A
harp might have only 3 strings and the melody was never tuneful.
The KJV uses melody
in three important passages in the Old Testament: Notice Christ speaking
of Tyre as Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute in the
garden of eden says:
A. Isaiah 23:16 Take an [1] harp, go about the city,
thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet [2] melody,
[3] sing many songs,
that thou mayest be remembered.
5059. nagan, naw-gan´; a primitive root; properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music:—player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Implications: 5060. nagan, naw-gah´; a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.):—beat, (x be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.B. Isa 51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion:
A Neo-Hebraic noun formed from the "pi'el" of the verb = "to play strings," "make music"; hence meaning generally "tune," "melody." In the rubrics of the Maḥzor of the northern uses "be-niggun N." heads a piyyuṭ with the signification "to the tune of N," as does "laḥn N." in the southern liturgies. The word is also used to designate a droning, formless set to a text, and, more especially,
the particular melody-type or prayer-motive to which a service is traditionally rendered,
e.g., the Sabbath Niggun. See Music, Synagogal.
The accents in cantillation were specificially to prevent even altering the read text by the tone of voice. The direct command of Paul was to SPEAK Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs: melody or grace (Colossians 3) was IN THE HEART.
Jesus said that worship was IN Spirit as opposed to IN Jerusalem or IN Samaria. Worship IN THE PLACE of the human spirit was devoted to TRUTH or the Word of Christ. Paul warned against the DOGS or Cynics who were the old style praise singers seeking whom they might devour:
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision,
which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh
he will comfort all her waste places;
and he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the LORD;
joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
The word for VOICE is never used of a musical instrument:
Voice h6963 qôl qôl kole, kole From an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound:
Exodus 24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments:
and all the people answered with one voice, and said,
All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Psalms 3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice,
and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms 142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice;
with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalms 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them,
Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives,
to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra 10:11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers,
and do his pleasure:
and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
Ezra 10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice,
As thou hast said, so must we do.
Zimrah is h2172 and does not MEAN melody
First, it is used of singing (vocal) or instrumental: the song of the land praised fruits or production. Cf Greek aoide celebrate in songs. Isaiah spoke of the VOICE of melody and not an INSTRUMENT.
Zimrah is LIKE ZAMAR (H2167)
Psalms 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.The Latin for "melody" is:
Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
It ALWAYS translates as SING: it still means only SING when in a few instances it is to sing with a harp. The words were separated from the tone of the string.
Laus A. A praiseworthy thing, a ground for praise, a laudable or glorious action, a laudable enterprise;John T. Willis: 2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3; 144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further verifies this reality.
C. Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
[23] aufer a me tumultum carminum tuorum et cantica lyrae tuae non audiam
Tŭmultus, ūs tumalas, tumulas, disturbing; cf. tumeo, an uproar, bustle, violent commotion, disturbance ,
B. In partic. 1. In milit. lang., a sudden or impending war, civil war, insurrection, tumult, sedition, rebellion:A. Disturbance, disquietude, agitation, tumult of the mind or feelings: “tumultus Mentis,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 10; Luc. 7, 183: “pulsata tumultu pectora, Petr. poët. 123: sceleris tumultus,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 208.
Hor. Carm. 2.16
No pomp, no lictor clears the way
'Mid rabble-routs of troublous feelings,
Nor quells the cares that sport and play
Round gilded ceilings.
With double dyes; a small domain,mŏvĕo, to move, affect, excite, inspire: charms, to stir up, excite, provoke
to move people from their place,
“cantus vocis juvat sociatā nervorum concordiā,” Quint. 5, 10, 124: “citharam cum voce,” id. ib. 5, 112:
Kithera along with Voice.
tympana id. H. 4, 48; beaten by the priests of Cybele and Isis Mount Sinai Bacchantine females 1 Cor 13
Emasculated Galatians 5 of witchcraft
to disturb: “novis Helicona cantibus,”
The soul that breathed in Grecian harping,
My portion these; and high disdain
Of ribald carping.
Lego A. In gen.: “oleam, The sweet smell of an offering.
1. To take out, pick out, extract, remove: 2. To pluck, strip, gather fruit from (a tree, etc.): “oleam qui legerit,” Cato, R. R. 144, 1: “ficus non erat apta legi,
5. To take to one's self unjustly, to carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, “soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,” Verg. A. 10, 79
Abducto 3. To carry away forcibly, to ravish, rob: rhetori tradendus, abducendum protinus a grammaticis putem,” Quint. 2, 1, 12:
Abduction from allegiance, study. religious scruples, fear of God.
pulso I. inf. parag. pulsarier, Lucr. 4, 931), 1, v. freq. a. id., to push, strike, beat (cf.: tundo, ferio, pello).
Of musical instruments: “chordas digitis et pectine eburno,” to strike, play upon, Verg. A. 6, 647: “chelyn,” (harp) Val. Fl. 1, 139: “pectine nervos,” Sil. 5, 463: “cymbala,” Juv. 9, 62.
A. In gen., to urge or drive on, to impel, to set in violent motion, to move, agitate, disturb, disquiet:
C. To drive away, remove, put out of the way
Psalmus , i, m., = psalmos, i. q. psalma,
I. In gen., to play upon a stringed instrument; esp., to play upon the cithara, to sing to the cithara: “psallere saltare elegantius,” Sall. C. 25, 2
Elego I. to convey away (from the family) by bequest, to bequeath away, Petr. 43, 5; Gai. Inst. 2, 215.
TO RECRUCIFY CHRIST:
Anastatoo (g387) an-as-tat-o'-o; from a der. of 450 (in the sense of removal); prop. to drive out of home, i.e. (by impl.) to disturb (lit. or fig.): - trouble, turn upside down, make an uproar, to stir up, excite, unsettle to excite tumults and seditions in the state to upset, unsettle, minds by disseminating religious error.
Quint. Inst. 2 1.1 THE custom has prevailed and is daily growing commoner of sending boys to the schools of rhetoric much later than is reasonable: this is always the case as regards Latin rhetoric and occasionally applies to Greek as well. The reason for this is twofold: the rhetoricians, more especially our own,
have abandoned certain of their duties
and the teachers of literature have undertaken tasks which rightly belong to others
[2] For the rhetorician considers that his duty is merely to declaim and give instruction in the theory and practice of declamation and confines his activities to deliberative and judicial themes, regarding all others as beneath the dignity of his profession;
Outlawed: laded burden: creation of spiritual anxiety through religious rituals (legalism). Melody in Greek is;
2172. zimrah, zim-raw´; from 2167; a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument:—melody, psalm.
In Amos the instrument is named but not included.
Canticum I. Lit., a song in the Roman comedy,
sung by one person, and accompanied by music and dancing; a monody, solo
Citharoedus: the word signifies a vocalist, who with his singing gave an accompaniment on the harp.
Mercury or Hermes used music to steal Apollo's cattle: he forced them to walk backward. This is the same story as that of Jubal who used music (without authority) to steal other people's cattle and then sell them back.
Ov. Met. 2.691
It was the time when under shape of shepehierde with a wande
Of Olyve and a pipe of reedes thou kept Admetus sheepe.
Now in this time that (save of Love) thou tooke none other keepe,
And madste thee merrie with thy pipe, the glistring Maias sonne
By chaunce abrode the fields of Pyle spide certaine cattle runne
Without a hierde, the which he stole and closely did them hide
Among the woods.
All singers sang their own song and accompanied it with his own instrument:II. A song, in gen.: “ B. A singing tone in the delivery of an orator, Cic. Or. 18, 57; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 13; cf. Quint. 1, 8, 2; 11, 3, 13.—B. A magic formula, incantation,
A PsalmOdia sings and plays a harp. Psallo never means to play a harp.
If Paul intended both sing AND Play the word is:
Anti-psallô, A.play a stringed instrument in accompaniment of song,
a. elegois phorminga Ar.Av.218 .
Melody is VOCAL only.Elegos , ho, A.song, melody, orig. accompanied by the flute
Aristoph. Birds 218 Epops
From within; singing.
Chase off drowsy sleep, dear companion.
[210] Let the sacred hymn gush from thy divine throat in melodious strains;
roll forth in soft cadence your refreshing melodies to bewail the fate of Itys,
which has been the cause of so many tears to us both.
[215] Your pure notes rise through the thick leaves of the yew-tree right up to the throne of Zeus, where Phoebus (Apollo, Abaddon) listens to you, Phoebus with his golden hair. And his ivory lyre responds to your plaintive accents; [220] he gathers the choir of the gods and from their immortal lips pours forth a sacred chant of blessed voices
Play is also katapsallô , A.play stringed instruments
Scripture used neither.
Lyra lute, lyre, a stringed instrument invented by Mercury and presented to Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon)
I. a lute, lyre, a stringed instrument resembling the cithara, fabled to have been invented by Mercury and presented to Apollo,
A. Lyric poetry, song: “imbellis,” Hor. C. 1, 6, 10: “Aeoliae Lesbis amica lyrae,” Ov. Am. 2, 18, 26; id. P. 3, 3, 45.—
C. Lyra, the constellation, the Lyre: “exoriente Lyra,”
Amos 5:24 But [Instead] let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.Hor. Carm. 1.6
Not mine such themes, Agrippa; no, nor mine
To chant the Wrath that fill'd Pelides' breast,
Nor dark Ulysses' wanderings o'er the brine,
Nor Pelops' house unblest.
Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
But who may fitly sing of Mars array'd
And she, who makes the peaceful lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
In adamant mail, or Merion, black with dust
Of Troy, or Tydeus' son by Pallas' aid
Strong against gods to thrust
Melody never MEANS that of an instrument: it is used IN CONNECTION with instruments. PLUCK a lyre means to make a single tone: PLUCK does not MEAN to make a musical tone.h2167 You will notice that we are still speaking of rhymic speaking since none of the Bible can be sung tunefully: that was possible only after Calvin allowed rewriting some psalms (only) to be sung in unison until simply harmony was added. Melody does not and never meant harmony.
h1995. hamown, haw-mone´; or NOmDh hamon (Ezek. 5:7), haw-mone´; from 1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth:—abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
Ezekiel 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
h1993. hamah, haw-maw´; a primitive root (compare 1949); to make a loud sound like Engl. “hum”); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor:—clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise, rage, roar, sound, be troubled, make in tumult, tumultuous, be in an uproar.H2172 zimrâh zim-raw' From H2167 ; a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument:—melody, psalm.
Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
You will notice that the word means PLUCK: psallo means PLUCK: neither means play an instrument. Like al instrumental terms it is derived from "stealing one's inheritance" as in h2490. The pruning hook was a musical device.
Next, the Word means to SING or cantillate in prose: there were no tuneful notes: one might have a one note or two note melody. The object was to tell some factual story in a style which communicated knowledge.
Then it means a musical instrument although the SING is almost always added in addition to the NAME of the instrument.
Then it mean to play and dance and sing which was not calculated to communicate anything but terror in warfare or lust.
Zamar then never means play an instrument and sing unless you specificy which instrument you want to be used. Otherwise, if you tell people to PLUCK you can never tell what they are going to do: in the case of all of the NACC prooftexts it implicates an older male and a younger plucked boy.
Eur. Alc. 578 Chorus
Under his shepherd care, in joy at his songs, were also spotted lynxes, [580] and there came, leaving the vale of Othrys, a pride of tawny lions, and the dappled fawn stepping beyond the tall fir-trees with its light foot [585] danced to your lyre-playing, rejoicing in your joyful melody.
Eur. Cycl. 483 Singing within.
Hush! Hush! For now the Cyclops, drunk and making graceless melody, [490] comes forth from the rocky cave, a singer who is inept and shall pay dearly. Come, let us with our revelling songs impart some culture to this lout. In any case he shall be blind.
An ancient stage-direction preserved in the text.
Eur. Ion 144 Move your crimson foot elsewhere! Phoebus' (Apololyon) lyre, that sings with you, [165] would not protect you from my bow. Alter your wings' course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not obey, you will steep your lovely melody in blood. [170] Ah, ah! what is this new bird that approaches; you will not place under the cornice a straw-built nest for your children, will you? My singingpsalmoi bow [ s' eirxousin toxōn.] will keep you off. Will you not obey? Plat. Ion 534a
Strab. 9.3 And to the citharoedes they added both fluteplayers and citharists who played without singing, who were to render a certain melody which is called the Pythian Nome. There are five parts of it: angkrousis, ampeira, katakeleusmos, iambi and dactyli, and syringes. Now the melody was composed by Timosthenes, the admiral of the second Ptolemy, who also compiled The Harbours, a work in ten books; and through this melody players imitated the dragon as breathing its last in hissings. he means to celebrate the contest between Apollo and the dragon, setting forth the prelude as anakrousis, the first onset of the contest as ampeira, the contest itself as katakeleusmos, the triumph following the victory as iambus and dactylus, the rhythms being in two measures, one of which, the dactyl, is appropriate to hymns of praise, whereas the other, the iamb, is suited to reproaches (compare the word "iambize"), and the expiration of the dragon as syringes, since with syringes
John T. Willis: Psalm 21:13: "We will sing and make melody to your power."
Ps 21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back,
when thou shalt make ready thine arrows
upon thy strings against the face of them.
Ps 21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength:
so will we sing and praise thy power. [KJV, ASV, NET, WEB]
H2167 zâmar zaw-mar' A primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers); properly to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, that is, play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music:—give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
This word does not MEAN to make melody with an instrument otherwise the instrument would be named.
Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth.
Sing praises with understanding.
When an instrument is rarely included it is NAMED.
Ps 33:2
Ps 71:22
Psalm 27:6: "I will sing and make melody to the Lord."
Psalms 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. [KJV, ASV, NET, WEB]
Psalms 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:
have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
These never apply to a congregation such as a synagogue or ekklesia.
Not even a Levite could go inside the Tabernacle: there was no instrumetal noise connected with the original tabernacle.
John T. Willis: Psalm 33:2-3: "Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him WITH ith the harp of ten strings.
Sing to him a new song,
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts."
If you make melody with a harp then you make melody but melody DOES NOT MEAN play the harp
KJV: Psalms 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
Some scholars claim that the singing of the Jews--often in trouble--was very loud or screaming. You cannot teach and admonish using the defunct sacrificial system.
Praise with the lyreNeither the Law of Moses or the Prophets by Christ commanded instrumental noise: in fact when the Qahal, syngogue or church in the Wilderness was assembled in a holy convocation h7321 is outlawed. Judas will not TRIUMPH OVER Jesus is the prophesied MARK.
H8416 tehillâh teh-hil-law' From H1984 ; laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn:—praise.
Implications: H1966 hêylêl hay-lale' From H1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning star:—lucifer.
H1984 hâlal haw-lal' A primitive root; to be clear (originally of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show; to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively to celebrate; also to stultify:—(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool (-ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Praise with the harp:
H3034 yâdâh yaw-daw' A primitive root; used only as denominative from H3027 ; literally to use (that is, hold out) the hand; physically to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively to bemoan (by wringing the hands):—cast (out), (make) confess (-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank (-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Play
H5059 nâgan naw-gan' A primitive root; prop to thrum, that is, beat a tune with the fingers; especially to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally) to make music:—player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er. -ing).
Implications: H5060 nâga‛ naw-gah' A primitive root; properly to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive, acquire); violently, to strikepunish, defeat, destroy, etc.):—beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.The Lyre:
H5035 nebel nêbel neh'-bel, nay'-bel From H5034 ; a skin bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form):—bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
Implications: H5034 nâbêl naw-bale' A primitive root; to wilt; generally to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively to be foolish despise, disgrace:—disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, -ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, X surely, make vile, wither.or (morally) wicked;Loud Shouts Loud Noise
H8643 terû‛âh ter-oo-aw' From H7321 ; clamor, that is, acclamation of joy or a battle cry; especially clangor of trumpets, as an alarum:—alarm, blow (-ing) (of, the) (trumpets), joy, jubile, loud noise, rejoicing, shout (-ing), (high, joyful) sound (-ing).
Implications: H7321 rûa‛ roo-ah' A primitive root; to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively to split the ears (with sound), that is, shout (for alarm or joy):—blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.This was outlawed for the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness: it was never violated in any synagogue until the year 1815
they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together,
ye shall blow,
but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
The Psaltery
"The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C. translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel was translated psalterion. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's idolatrous ensemble included the Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the book of Psalms has also become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns sung with this harp.
Psalm 57:7: "I will sing and make melody."
Psalms 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:
I will sing and give praise.
H2167 zâmar zaw-mar' A primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers); properly to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, that is, play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music:—give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.
H2168 zâmar zaw-mar' A primitive root (compare H2167 , H5568 , H6785 ); to trim (a vine):—prune.
laurel B. (Sc. corona.) A laurel crown or garland, laurel branch, as the ornament of Apollo, of poets, of ancestral images, of generals enjoying a triumph, and of letters containing news of a victory aisakos , ho, A.branch of myrtle or laurel, handed by one to another at table as a challenge to sing, Plu.2.615b, Hsch.
Psalms 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
A Levite who went INTO the Holy Place with or without his harp was to be executed. If that is the sentence imposed even in all pagan temples, how shall they escape who thing they can play a harp INSIDE of the human heart?Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Habakkuk 2:19
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him Habakkuk 2:20
All pagans believed that a musical instrument WAS a god or was the HOME of a god: that is why Africans baptize their drums and the Catholics baptize their organs and bells.
David wanted to AWAKEN his lyre so that he could AWAKEN the dawn. Fits with the kings being abandoned to worship the starry host (re the Star of David) OR "poems tend to be poetic." Nonetheless, the uneducated fall sucker for poetic speech (says Jesus of speaking parables):
"We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'arousers," sang every morning this verse from Ps 44: 'Awake, Lord, awake! Do not abandon us for ever." The Talmud tells us that JohynHyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom.A similar practice is attested in connection with the cult of Herakles-Melkart. According to Menander, as he is quoted by Josephus, the king Hiram, who was a contemporary of Solomon, rebuilt the temples of Tyre and, 'he was the first to celebrate the awakening of Heracles in the month of Peritius." (de Vaux, p. 247)
Herakles is the Lucifer type at Tyre and the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden. The sexual and homosexual worship in Jerusalem is said to be foor Herakles.
In an inscription from Cyprus, in one from Rhodes and in several from around the district of Carthage, there are references to important personages who bear the title Mqm"lm which we can translate as 'arouser of the god." (de Vaux, p. 247).
Since they had been abandoned to worship the starry host:
But by the star-bespangled throne of Jove,
And by the goddess high above my rocks
Enshrined, by the moist banks that bend around
The hallow'd lake by Triton form'd, no longer
Will I conceal this bed, but ease my breast,
The oppressive load discharged. Mine eyes drop tears,
My soul is rent, to wretchedness ensnared
By men, by gods, whom I will now disclose,
Unkind betrayers of the beds they forced.
O thou, that wakest on thy seven-string'd lyre
Sweet notes, that from the rustic lifeless horn
Enchant the ear with heavenly melody,
John T. Willis: Psalm 68:4: "Sing to God, make melody to him who rides upon the clouds."
Psalm 68:32: "Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth;
make melody to the Lord."
Again, Zamar can be USED of an instrument but it does not MEAN make melody with an instrument. The translators did not think that an instrument was even implied.
Psa 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalm 104:33: "I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will make melody to my God, while I have being."
Psalm 105:2: "Sing to him, make melody to him."
Many of the Psalms are
NARRATED to tell the story of GOD in order to EDUCATE or edify.
Therefore, when education is involved we just cannot tolerate some lyre
plucker
Ps 105:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name:
make known HIS deeds among the people.
Ps 105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him:
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Făcĭo , fēci, factum,to make in all senses, to do, perform, accomplish, prepare, produce, bring to pass, cause, effect, create, commit, perpetrate, form, fashion,etc. (cf. in gen.: “ago, factito, reddo, operor, tracto): verbum facere omnem omnino faciendi causam complectitur, donandi, solvendi, judicandi, ambulandi, numerandi,” Dig. 50, 16, 218.
I. Act.A. In gen.(a). With acc.: ut faber, cum quid aedificaturus est, “sermonem,” Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf. “litteram,”Ephesians 4:11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;
and some, shepherdsa and teachers;
Ephesians 4:12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
Ephesians 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man,
to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
He didn't include anyone to invent sermons, compose songs, sing songs or play instruments
Oikodom-eō , fut. -ēsō : aor. ōkodomēsa (not oik- in Att.)PAUL OUTLAWS ALL OF THE CUNNING CRAFTY SPEAKERS, SINGERS AND INSTRUMENT PLAYERS.
Psalm 108:1: "I will sing and make melody."
Psalm 144:9: "I will sing a new song to you, O God; and
upon a ten-stringed harp I will make melody to you."
Psalm 147:7: "Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; and
make melody to our God on the lyre."
There is no exception: the only way an instrument can be assumed is if it is named.
Psalm 149:1b, 3b: "Sing to the Lord a new song; . . .and
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre."
Remember "prepositional phrases?"
Psalm 149 like the
instruments in Halal 150 (not a psalm) has some ugly associations: the
Worship of the starry host was common in many areas and Halal is the
root from which Lucifer comes. Click to see Psalm 149
Some Greek words all point to making war
John T. Willis: In addition, 23 passages occur in the Hebrew Psalter using the term "make melody:" Psalms 7:17; 9:2, 11; 18:49; 30:4, 12; 47:6-7; 57:9; 59:17; 61:8; 66:2, 4; 71:22-23, 75:9; 98:4-5; 101:1; 108:3; 135:3; 138:1; 146:2.
Not in in translation I am aware of: the translators understood that when an instrument is intended it is always named but even this is in parallelism which shows a symbolic meaning: Poems TEND to be poetic. And we are told to SPEAK the psalms to teach and admonish.See Rick Atchley and Chris Seidman on Psalm 75
Psalms 7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;
vī^bro 2. Transf., to throw with a vibratory motion, to launch, hurlhe ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
1. Of language, to fling, hurl, launch: “truces vibrare iambos,” Cat. 36, 5; cf. 2. vibratus, II.—
1. In gen., to shake, quiver, vibrate, tremble: “linguā vibrante (serpentis),” 2. Of the voice or sounds, to tremble:
arcus A. For shooting: intendit crinitus Apollo Arcum auratum, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 54 Müll.): “arcus intentus in aliquem,” Cic. Sest. 7: “haec cernens arcum intendebat Apollo Desuper,” Verg. A. 8, 704; 9, 665; so Vulg. Psa. 10, 3; 36, 14:
ex-ăgĭto , āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.,I. to drive out of its position or place; to stir up, rouse up, disturb.
2. To stir up, irritate, excite: b. Transf., to stir up, excite the passions themselves: ne et meum maerorem exagitem et te in eundem luctum vocem, Cic. Att. 3, 7, 2; “tristes curas,” Luc. 8, 44: “furores immiti corde,” Cat. 64, 94Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.Psalms 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
-Pallô, poise, sway a missile before it is thrown, sway, brandish, she drove it furiously, tripped on the shield-rim, quiver, leap, esp. in fear, II. Pass., swing, dash oneself, Pi.N.5.21; vibrate, of strings, Pl.Phd.94c (psalloito ap. Stob.); leap, bound, quiver, quake, phrena deimati pallôn S.OT153 (lyr.); dash along, of horses, E.El.477 (lyr.).
Psalms 7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms 7:17 (18) I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness:
and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Click to understand that many psalms are for NARRATING the Word of GOD in order to TEACH others. They are never used as a legalistic "Law of singing."
Psalms 9:1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart;
meaning: I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
Psalms 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:
meaning: declare among the people his doings.
Psalms 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen,
and sing praises unto thy name.
In Revelation 15 the method was to use "one mind and one mouth to glorify God with that which is written for our learning."
Psa. 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
[6] For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.TURBO. I. fut. perf. turbassit, for turbaverit, Cic. Leg. 3, 4; al. turbassitur) [turba], to disturb, agitate, confuse, disorder; to throw into disorder or confusion (freq. and class.; syn.: confundo, misceo, agito).
1. Milit. t. t., to throw into disorder, break the line of battle, disorganize:
A. Lit.: “turbatius mare ingressus,” more stormy, Suet. Calig. 23: “turbatius caelum,” id. Tib. 69.—
THE RAPTURE: confusedly, disorderly: “aguntur omnia raptim atque turbate,”
“turbatus religione simul ac periculo,” Suet. Ner. 19
Dīvĭtĭae , I. Lit., Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 99; id. Capt. 2, 2, 31; Cic. Lael. 6 (twice); id. Rep. 1, 34; 3, 14; Hor. C. 2, 3, 20; id. S. 2, 2, 101; id. Ep. 1, 4, 7 et saep.—Prov.: superare Crassum divitiis, to be richer than Crassus, i. e. to be very rich, very fortunate, Cic. Att. 1, 4 fin.—
II. Trop., richness, copiousness, affluence (very rarely): “in oratione Crassi divitias atque ornamenta ejus ingenii perspexi (perhaps alluding to the wealth of Crassus),” Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161: “quem tu per jocum divitias orationis habere dicis,” id. Fam. 4, 4, 1; cf. “verborum (with ubertas),” Quint. 10, 1, 13.
Psa. 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psa. 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is A CUP, AND THE WINE IS RED; IT IS FULL OF MIXTURE; AND HE POURETH OUT OF THE SAME: BUT THE DREGS THEREOF, ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH SHALL WRING THEM OUT, AND DRINK THEM.
Rev. 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,AFTER THE AFFLICTION OR JUDGMENT OF APOLLO IS OVER
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev. 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Psa. 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises [zamar] to the God of Jacob.
John T. Willis: A careful, attentive student of the Bible arrives at several significant conclusions:
1. "Sing and make melody" was a very common practice throughout the
history of God's people. These two practices are inseparable as one.
Most
of the proof texts do not understand MAKE MELODY as par of SING. Sing
in the ancient world used "the normal inflections of the human
voice." Paul commanded that we SPEAK "that which is writtenfor
our learning using one mind and mone mouth. The word SPEAK is defined
specificially as the opposite of poetry or music.
All religious music was an effort to appease angry gods or even threaten them.
Not true. A typical synagogue song might be two notes: lo lo lo hi lo lo lo hi lo lo lo hi lo lo lo hi
Paian II. paian , Ep. paiēōn , Att., Ion. paiōn , paean, i.e. choral song, addressed to Apollo or Artemis, Erin
III. in Prosody, paeon, a foot consisting of 3 short and 1 long syll., _^^^, ^_^^, ^^_^, or ^^^_,
Erinus II. in less personal sense, guilt, punishment invoked upon the guilty, freq. c. gen., mētros Erinues curses from one's mother
Singing is done
with such a melody without an instrument: the goal was always to
teach. A SOLO singer would accompany himself and make melody with
a LYRE.
There is no
command, example or remote inference that the Jews ever participated in
congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment.
The Levites were
the exclusive singers under the worship of the starry host: they were
under the king and commanders of the army. They made ware and not
worsyip.
Psallo means to "pluck with your finers and never with a plectrum." You cannot psallo a flute, piano, organ or cymbal.
Zamar cannot be applied to wind or percussion instruments.
Neither means "play an instrument." If you pluck a harp string you make a SOUND but not music. You must include a melody and then MUSIC includes both singing and plucking. Neither in the Bible would be melody as tunefulness.
A
casual student will understand that David was not a Levite and could
never conduct worship services. Sing is often used without
the melody OF an instrument. Instruments play a simple one or two note
melody WITHOUT singing. It is called cantillation which is Paul's word SPEAK which is the opposite of rhetoric, poetry or music.
No: they are not inseparable because the Bible gives many examples of both.
A casual student will notice that this was never commanded for the religious people who attended synagogue.
"Indeed not before David's time do professional musicians appear in the Bible. From where did they come?
Considering the apparent connection of professional musicians with the institution of Monarchy,
we must bear in mind that in the neighboring countries, Egypt and Assyria, the professional musician was an old and familiar figure. It seems that the midrash alludes to an ancient tradition when it relates that King Solomon's Egyptian wife, daughter of the Pharaoh, carried in her dowry a thousand foreign instruments.Yet an instrument is of no use without a musician able to play it. Hence, we may assume that the systematic import and subsequent training of professional musicians took place in the era of David and Solomon." (Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, p. 457).
John T. Willis: 2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3;
144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further verifies
this reality.
The word "melody" is not in the text
In the prophets Christ says that God did NOT command sacrifices or burnt offerings.
Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings,
I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
You see, melody with an instrument ALWAYS names the instrument: melody here is the same as "plucking with your fingers and never with a plectrum." Neither Zamar or Psallo permits anyting but plucking something such as a string and NEVER with a plectrum. Therefore, there is no case of these words being used of keyboards, flutes, cymbals or anyting but a string.
Amos 5:24 But (instead) let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Making the heart strings sing is very common in the Greek text and even in the Bible. We can sing IN OUR HEART without sound.
Melody means a series of single tones. The words define vocal harmony and instrumental harmony separately. Furthermore the words for harmony, sumphonia, means sounding together which is what Paul commanded in Romans 15.
Sirach 46;
7. For he wiped out his enemies on every side,
and annihilated his adversaries the Philistines;
he crushed their power even to this day.8. In all that he did he gave thanks to the Holy One, the Most High, with ascriptions of glory;
he sang praise with all his heart, and he loved his Maker.9. He placed singers before the altar,
to make sweet melody with their voices.10. He gave beauty to the feasts, and arranged their times throughout the year, while they praised God's holy name, and the sanctuary resounded from early morning.
John T. Willis: 3. Singing and making melody is acceptable to God ONLY when worshippers perform GENUINELY FROM THE HEART and IN HARMONY WITH RIGHT LIVING ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL. Amos 5:23 clearly makes this point.
Willis
says that you can sing (with your voice) AND make melody (with an
instrument) IF it is FROM the heart and you are holy enough. In
fact, since he says that melody demands an instrument, you are COMMANDED to use instrumental music.
No:
the way in which they acted out their worship was wrong: Amos and Acts
7 gives us the names of the STARRY HOST which was always worshipped in
the monarchy. Israel was taking David's warrior music and taking
it into the temple. This is radically condemned.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy [1] songs; for I will not hear the [2] melody of thy [3] viols.
Psallo in the Greek MEANS to pluck with your finers and never with a plectrum.
If you pluck a bow string to make it twang to send forth a singing
arrow into the litteral heart you obviously are not worshipping
God. If you pluck a lyre to seduce a young male whose hairs
have been plucked, you have the meaning in the PROOF texts. If
you pluck a string you make a sound; a sound does not music make unless
you define a melody. In the cantillation of the Psalms the melody might
consist of two notes for accent. You cannot sing any of the Bible
tunefully. If an instrument is intended it is always named.
4. Ephesians 5:19 makes this same point. Singing to the Lord
must be "in your hearts," not merely external words. Making melody to
the Lord must be "in your hearts," not merely external instrumental
tones. Paul uses the expression "sing and make melody" from the Hebrew
Bible, and assumes vocal singing and instrumental music in the New
Testament church.
The direct command is to SPEAK. The named Resources are "that
which is written for our learning." The learning process EXCLUDES music
during bible class. SPEAK in the Greek is defined as the OPPOSITE
of poetry or music.
SEE LOGOS VERSUS MYTHOS. The Church of Christ is based on Logos only.
Logos, verbal noun of lego
Opposite kata pathos
Opposite music, poetry or rhetoric
Opposite human reasoning
Opposite Epagoge bringint in to one's aid, introduction
Alurement, enticement, incantation, spell
-Logos verbal noun of legō Opposite. muthos, as history to legend, prose, Opposite. poiêsis, Id.R.390a; Opposite to emmetros Opposite. poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; Opposite. poiêmata, ib.15; koina kai poiêmatôn kai logôn Only the words of lyric or dramatic poetry.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,
Sophia , Ion. -iē, h(, prop. A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, Ar.Ra.882, X.An.1.2.8, etc.; in driving, Pl. Thg.123c; in medicine or surgery, Pi.P.3.54; in divination, S.OT 502 (lyr.); “
Homer to Hermes: What skill is this? What song for desperate cares? What way of song? For verily here are three things to hand all at once from which to choose, —mirth, and love, and sweet sleep.
[450] And though I am a follower of the Olympian Muses (Rev 18:22)
who love dances and the bright path of song —
the full-toned chant and ravishing thrill of flutes —
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Paul commanded that we SPEAK that which is written for our
learning: Speak specificially means the OPPOSITE of poetry or music.
That
is because music is most often identified as enchanting or
sorcery. It is an insult THE Holy Spirit, post-resurrection
Jesus Christ by thinking that He was not bright enough to have included
instruments. He and Paul understood that ALWAYS when you into to
include PLAY or make melody AND upon a musical instrument that
instrument is always named.
It is not possible to understand the meaning of a DISCIPLE and promote teaching them singy-clappy's songs with instruments.
You cannot be a disciple and ignore Jesus command that we teach WHAT HE COMMANDED to be taught.
You cannot be a
Christian without knowing that a Christian is a disciple who is
baptized and then taught what Christ commanded. Peter made that the
PROPHETS (by Christ) and the prophecies made more perfect by Jesus left
as a "memory" not subject to private interpretation or further
expounding.
Share YOUR thoughts and ideas with others. Let me hear from YOU.
John Willis
Sorry, I could not post on John's forum: too, it takes lots of CONTEXT to prove that assumptions are radically wrong.
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