The Ekklesia

The Ekklesia

There are may examples of the conflict between the AGORA or marketplace and the Ekklesia or Synagogue. We may add some background but this short post is to define the ACT of SPEAKING in the ekklesia or synagogue as being radically exclusive of the modern "church" or Circe (circus) which would not survive without a rhetorician, singers and instrument players.

My point is to show that the modern CHURCH is diametrically opposed to the "school of the Bible" which Jesus established to give us REST from the rhetoric, singing and music without which the modern INSTITUTE could not operate. Because many take your money and then shut your mouth they meet many of the qualifications of a cult.

THE ASSEMBLY MEANS READ, SPEAK, DIALOG, REACH A "SYLLOGISM" CONCLUSION, TEACH THROUGH THE LORD'S SUPPER, DISMISS AND GO HOME. NO INSTITUTE SO NO STAFF INFECTION. THAT GOT TO HEAVY FOR SOME PEOPLE.

THAT OUTLAWED RHETORIC, POETRY, SINGING, INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER CARNAL WEAPONS INTENDING TO PROMOTE THEIR OWN OPINIONS NOT CONNECTED TO THE BIBLE.

The Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness included "Resting, reading and rehearsing" the Word often in the heads of APT elders speaking for Moses. It EXCLUDED vocal or instrumental rejoicing: after all who need a LAW to sit down and be quiet when God is speaking to us when the elders "teach that which has been taught."

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

Loquor [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation;
Well, we know how to MARK the new fella who SINGS, claps, dances and brings along his band to interview for job as Electrical Engineer. Hey?

The word SPEAK connected to the synagogue, ekklesia or church is

logos the word or that by which the inward thought is expressed
        III. explanation,
            1. plea, pretext, ground, I (i.e. my conduct) would have admitted of an explanation,
              b. plea, case, in Law or argument
            2. statement of a theory, argument, my teaching, Ev.Jo.5.24, of arguments leading to a conclusion, sullogismos,
                  c. in Logic, proposition, whether as premiss or conclusion,
              4. thesis, hypothesis, provisional ground,
              5. reason, ground
        IV. inward debate of the soul
              1. thinking, reasoning
        V. continuous statement, narrative (whether fact or fiction), oration, etc. (cf. legô (B) 11.2)

The SPEAKING in the synagogue or ekklesia demanded a:

Hupothesis A. proposal, proposed action, 3.purpose, II. subject proposed (to oneself or another) for discussion, 2.case at law, lawsuit,
  2. in the syllogism, the preliminary statements of fact (whether proved or not) from which inference starts, i. e. the premisses
Arche or the basis

In the synagogue or church the raw material was "that which is written, the Spirit or the Word of Christ." The practice was to read a portion in a SPEAKING tone and then discuss it to reach an understanding of the teaching.

LOGIKOS ( [logos] )
A. of or for speaking or speech,
the ORGANS of speech

Hagio-logos, on, A. speaking holy things, dub. in 1Enoch1.2.
G2980 laleo lal-eh'-o A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb;
to talk, that is, utter words:--preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Compare G3004 .

OPPOSITE to Mousikê,

OPPOSITE to MUSICAL ORGANS: Organum -Of musical instruments, a pipe, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica,
Organikos A. serving as organs or instruments, instrumental, esp. of war-engines, of musicians, practical, by way of instruments, making more use of instruments.
Musical ORGANS are then defined as OPPOSITE to LOGIKOS

OPPOSITE to rhetoric or CONFLICTING elements.
Opposite of eloquence Agones which is the CONTEST with elelizomenos move in coils or spirals of the serpent. Meaning a colission:

III. cause to vibrate, megan d' elelixen Olumpon, of Zeus, ib.1.530, cf. 8.199; phorminga e. make its strings quiver, Pi.O.9.13; asteropan elelixais Id.N.9.19 . . agôniôi elelizomenos podi mimeo -Pass., quake, tremble, quiver, elelichthê guia Il.22.448 ; elelikto, of a brandished spear, 13.558; amphi de peplos elelizeto possin h.Cer.183 ; megas d' elelizet' Olumpos h.Hom. l.c.; phorminx [Apollyon's Lyre] elelizomena

Sug-krousis , eôs, hê, collision, hoplôn [Carnal Weapon] II. in Music, rapid alternation of two notes, trill, III. Rhet., collision of contradictory statements,

2Cor. 10:4 (For the weapons HOPLON instruments
of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

LOGIKOS continued.

3. suited for prose, ho hêrôios semnos kai ou l. Demetr.Eloc.42 ; to l., opposite to megaloprepes, II. possessed of reason, intellectual, 2. dialectical, argumentative, hoi l. dialogoi of Plato, logical, l. sullogismoi,

OPPOSITE to rhêtorikoi, Rh.1355a13.

Jesus identified the rhetoricians, singers and instrument players as HYPOCRITES by pointing to Isaiah and Ezekiel. The SPEAKING in the ekklesia is defined as OPPOSITE to poety, music and rhetoric.

Aristotle, Rhetoric: I. Rhetoric is a counterpart of Dialectid; for both have to do with matters that are in a manner within the cognizance of all men and not confined to any special science. Hence all men in a manner have a share of both; for all, up to a certain point, endeavor to criticize or uphold an argument, to defend themselves or to accuse. [2] Now, the majority of people do this either at random or with a familiarity arising from habit. But since both these ways are possible, it is clear that matters can be reduced to a system, for it is possible to examine the reason why some attain their end by familiarity and others by chance; and such an examination all would at once admit to be the function of an art. [3] Now, previous compilers of “Arts” of Rhetoric have provided us with only a small portion of this art, for proofs are the only things in it that come within the province of art; everything else is merely an accessory. And yet they say nothing about enthymemes which are the body of proof, but chiefly devote their attention to matters outside the subject; [4] for the arousing of prejudice, compassion, anger, and similar emotions has no connection with the matter in hand, but is directed only to the dicast. ..... or the only thing to which their attention is devoted (20) is how to put the judge into a certain frame of mind. They give no account of the artificial proofs which make a man a master of rhetorical argument.

Note: The essence of sophistry consists in the moral purpose, the deliberate use of fallacious arguments. In Dialectic, the dialectician has the power or faculty of making use of them when he pleases; when he does so deliberately, he is called a sophist. In Rhetoric, this distinction does not exist; he who uses sound arguments as well as he who uses false ones are both known as rhetoricians.

Dialekt-os A.discourse, conversation, discussion, debate, argument , 2.common language, talk, II.speech, language articulate speech, language, opposite phônê,

Opposite phone
Phôn-ê , hê ,
3.any articulate sound, opp. inarticulate noise
4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., kerkidos ph. S.Fr.595 ; suringôn E.Tr.127 (lyr.); aulôn Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, organôn phônai Pl.R.397a ; freq. in LXX, hê ph. tês s alpingos LXX Ex.20.18 ; ph. brontês ib. Ps.103(104).7; hê ph. autou hôs ph. hudatôn pollôn Apoc.1.15 .

Therefore SPEAK is Opposite to Organon:
Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3.musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di'organôn ekêlei anthrôpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organôn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; o. poluchorda Id.R.399c , al.; met'ôidês kai tinôn organôn Phld.Mus.p.98K. ; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2.
Because Musical Instruments perform WORK: they are machines.

Ergon [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêïa erga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,
Sullogismos II.a conclusion, inference from premises, 2. generally, ratiocination, reasoning, II.putting together of observed facts, 2. in the Logic of Arist., a syllogism or deductive argument, defined provisionally as an argument in which, certain things being posited, something different from them necessarily follows

The synagogue or ekklesia was to assemble the people but the PURPOSE was to assemble their minds. The TEXT is that which is written with no authority to introduce your own. You dialog the facts and ASSEMBLE your conclusions. From that the law and common sense excluded the performing arts or artists.

The Sulligos was like the Ekklesia and Synagogue (all Greek Words). While HOW you say something is important the use of RHETORIC as performance is radically outlawed by Paul defining what we do "at church."

Ratiocinatio 1.An exercise of the reasoning powers, calm reasoning, ratiocination (opp. impulsio, a passionate feeling, impulse; cf. argumentatio):, 2.A certain form of reasoning, a syllogism,

NECESSARILY opposite to POETRY:

Apoiêtos , on,, on,
II. not artificial, unpolished, D.H. Lys.8; esp. unpoetical, a. logos, OPPOSITE. poiêtikê, Id.Comp.1; ta apoiêta, opposite ta pepoêmena, a. hupothesis not used as material for poetry,

hupothesis, A.proposal, proposed action, II.subject proposed (to oneself or another) for discussion, 2. in the syllogism, the preliminary statements of fact (whether proved or not) from which inference starts, i. e. the premisse, starting point, raw material

The only resources for the church is "that which is written, the Spirit or the Words of Christ." The elders are commanded to "teach that which has been taught." And Paul commanded Timothy to "give attendance to the public reading of the Word" and then to discuss the doctrinal meaning and admonish that that read text be obeyed.

The word SPEAK outlaws all of the elements of a modern INSTITUTE. Therefore it cannot be that which Jesus died to found to remove the laded burdens (arousal songs) and the burden laders.

4.11.08

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