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.The Ekklesia
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old timeThat's the patternism.
hath in every city
them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
See the Qahal or Synagogue or Church in the wilderness and you will undertand what Jesus endorsed and commanded with the word ekklesia. To that, the Lord's Supper was added as a showing forth or evangelism visual aid.
The Agora in Athens was the marketplace: this was the designated place for speakers, singers, instrument players, dancers, sellers of meats and bodies of young boys--the chorus leaders were implicated. The ekklesia was an official CIVIL body of mature Greeks located up on the PNYX. A higher authority supplied the material for discussion as did the Civil Synagogue. The mature citizens heard evidence, discussed or debated and reached a conclusion: the synagogue was a syllogism in action.
The psallo word in its secondary sense was a polluted red rope which slaves used to force people away from the singing boys and girls and up to the ekklesia. If they were reluctant, they would show up at the ekklesia (church), be fined and not permitted to join in the discussion. Except when invaded the official synagogue was not the place for any kind of musical or theatrical performance.
CHURCH: God did not suddenly get smart and shut down His old system of worship and decide to start all over. It is a fact that the NATIONAL sacrificial system was IMPOSED when God "turned them over to worship the starry hosts" because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. (Stephen in Acts 7 etc., etc.). The synagogue remained unchanged from the wilderness onward to when Jesus gave Himself as Spirit to be the sole Teacher. To that, Paul explained and the historic church observed the Lord's Supper. This was to show forth or preach the Death of Christ.
Therefore, the ekklesia had no other set-time-place task but "making known the manifest wisdom of God." The Campbells defined correctly "church" as "a school of Christ" and "worship" as "reading and musing the Word of God." To that, you add at your peril and certainly the discording of a fraction of the "Bible class." That happened in the yer 373 when "singing" as part of the assembly was added. Under the New Covenant any believer who becomes a disciple by learning, being baptized has their sins removed has A holy spirit or A good conscience. By removing sin from our mind or spirit EACH individual is given the ability and responsiblity to become a disciple. That is why the church is a ONE ANOTHER assembly and has no clergy and no funding to support one.
Liddell and Scott lists 54 Greek words for "assembly."
HOW TO MARK A FALSE CHURCH
Panegurizo would define a public festival, to enjoy oneself, make a set speech, sound as at a festival, of flutes, etc.
Panegurikos A. of or for a public festival or assembly, 2. flattering, false, “p. lēroi” Plu.2.6a; of style, showy, ostentatious, opp. alēthinos, D.H.Dem.8; of persons, Kosmos, pompous, “gunē sobara kai p.” Plu.Luc.6
Includes: eidos tēs rhētorikēs]
Includes: Gune Sobaros opposite hesukhos keep quiet, keep still, gentle, cautious,
2. of things, s. melos a rousing tune, Ar.Ach.674;
imposing, [stolē] Plu.Alex.45; of a triumphal procession, Id.Sull. 34;
Melos , eos, to/, 2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14; opp. rhuthmos, metron, Pl.Grg. 502c; opp. rhuthmos, rhēma, Id.Lg.656c; Krētikon, Karikon, Iōnikon m., Cratin.222, Pl.Com.69.12,14: metaph., en melei properly, correctly, “en m. phtheggesthai” Pl.Sph.227d; para melos incorrectly, inopportunely, “par m. erkhomai” Pi.N.7.69; “para m. phthegxasthai” Pl.Phlb.28b, Lg.696d; “para melos lamprunesthai” Arist.EN1123a22, cf. EE1233a39.3. melody of an instrument, “phormigx d' au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos” Thgn.761; “aulōn pamphōnon m.” Pi.P.12.19; “pēktidōn melē” S.Fr.241: generally, tone, “m. boēs” E.El.756. [In h.Merc.502 theos d' hupo kalon aeisen must be read for theos d' hupo melos aeisen, and Hellēsin d' adōn melea kai elegous is corrupt in Epigr. ap. Paus.10.7.6.]Aristoph. Ach. 674Includes: Thrupto softness, delicacy, daintiness II. luxuriousness, wantonness, women exposed, hubris
CHORUS
I invoke thee, Acharnian Muse, fierce and fell as the devouring fire; sudden as the spark that bursts from the crackling oaken coal when roused by the quickening fan to fry little fishes, while others knead the dough or whip the sharp Thasian pickle with rapid hand, so break forth, my Muse, and inspire thy tribesmen with rough, vigorous, stirring strains.HOW TO MARK THE ASSEMBLY OF CHRIST FROM THE WILDERNESS ONWARD.
Ekklēsi-a , h(, （ekklētos） an assembly of the citizens regularly summoned, the legislative assembly
A. assembly duly summoned, less general than sullogos, Th.2.22, Pl.Grg.456b,
sunageirein, sunagein, sullegein, athroizein, call an assembly, Hdt.3.142, Th.2.60, 8.97, X.HG1.6.8II. in LXX, the Jewish congregation, De. 31.30,al.2. in NT, the Church, as a body of Christians, Ev.Matt. 16.18, 1 Ep.Cor.11.22 ; “hē kat' oikon tinos e.” Ep.Rom.16.5 ; as a building, Cod.Just.1.1.5 Intr., etc.Sullog-os , A. [select] assembly, concourse, meeting of persons, whether legal or riotous, at Athens, of any special public meeting or assembly, OPPOSITE the common ekklēsia, Th.2.22, Pl.Lg.764a;
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.EKKLESIA (ÉKKÀNOÌA), from ek, out of, and klesis, a calling (kaleo to call), was used among the Greeks of a body of citizens gathered to discuss the affairs of State (Acts 19:39).
"The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)
The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:
‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai’.
The people of Israel, looked upon as ‘a called-out assembly’ were ‘the Church’ of that period."
Jesus absolutely did NOT change what the CIVILLIANS had always done. The mission of Christ was to MAKE DISCIPLES never called "ritual worshipers."Under the Law, a seven year cycle demanded:
- Gather (h6950) the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates,
that they may hear, and that they may learn,
- and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: Deut 31:12
This is the synagoguing which also outlaws instruments and loud rejoicing:
- Gahal (h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) together).
- Qahal (h6951) kaw-hawl'; from 6950; assemblage (usually concr.): - assembly, company,
This continued as a weekly assembly or the church in the wilderness.
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."
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something called out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
Every seven years, that is in the year of release, during the feast of Tabernacles, the Law was to be read before all the people according to the command found in Deut., xxxi, 10. But this enactment was probably soon found to be impracticable; and thus the Jewish authorities arranged to read on every sabbath, commencing with the sabbath after the feast of Tabernacles in one year of release and ending with the feast of Tabernacles in the next year of release, a portion of the Law so calculated that the whole Pentateuch would be read through in seven years. This would in some way the commandment be fulfilled. Some time later, the Jews of Palestine lengthened the sections for each sabbath in such a manner that he entire Law could be read in three years (Talm. Babyl. Megillah, 29b).
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;
To speak out,
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)
OPPOSITE Metrical or melodyOPPOSITE kata pathos,-LOGIKOS ( [logos] )
OPPOSITE Epagoges Bringing in aids. b. incantation, spel
A. of or for speaking or speech,
the ORGANS of speech, 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 coilsr or spiresof 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 Dialectic; 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.Sophis-tês, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” (religious melody) II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money,
The Wise Sophos A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238
Craftiness Panourgia
2Cor. 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry,
as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2Cor. 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves
to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2Cor. 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:Dialekt-os A.discourse, conversation, discussion, debate, argument , 2.common language, talk, II.speech, language articulate speech, language, opposite phônê,Sullogismos II.a conclusion, inference from premisses
phōn-ētikos , ē, on,A. vocal, to ph. the faculty of speech, Zeno Stoic.1.39, D.L.7.110; “ta ph. organa” Poll. 2.115, cf. Gal.2.690; ph. dunamis, aisthēsis], Arr.Epict.2.23.2, Theol.Ar.49.II. endowed with speech, “zōa”
Opposite phone
Phôn-ê
3. any articulate sound, opp. inarticulate noise (psophos）“, ph. kōkumatōn” S.Ant.1206; “hōsper phōnēs ousēs kata ton aera pollakis kai logou en tē phōnē” Plot.6.4.12: “stoikheion esti ph. adiairetos” Arist.Po.1456b22; also esp. of vowelsound, opp. to that of consonants, Pl.Tht.203b, Arist.HA535a32; in literary criticism, of sound, opp. meaning, Phld.Po.5.20 (pl.), 21.4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595; “suriggōn” E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “aulōn” Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “hē ph. tēs salpiggos” LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7; “hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.
Therefore SPEAK is Opposite to Organon:
Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) (ergon, erdō) 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' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” 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 1. in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, “polemēia e.”, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,
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.II. putting together of observed facts, Pl.Cra.412a; “s. estin hoti touto ekeino” Arist.Rh.1371b9: generally, inference, Phld.Sign.14, al.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, APr.24b18, cf. 47a34, al.; of several kinds, e.g. ho apodeiktikos s. APo.74b11; o( dialektikos s. Top.100a22; eristikos s. ib.b24; sts. opposed to epagōgē (q.v.); ho ex epagōgēs s. the syllogism which springs out of induction, APr.68b15; “to enthumēma s. tis” Rh.1355a8.III. Rhet., inference from written to unwritten law,
OPPOSITE Epagoges Bringing in aids. b. incantation, spell
5. process of reasoning, Aristox.Harm.pp.4,53M.b. esp. in the Logic of Aristotle, argument by induction (cf. “epagō” 1.10b),
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."
NECESSARILY opposite to POETRY:
Apoiêtos , on,, on,If you cannot understand the WELL DOCUMENTED DEFINITIONS then BLAME the preacher, singers and musiciians whose INTENTION throughout the Bible and common sense is to KEEP THE BIBLE CHAINED to the PULPIT because the PREACHER has chained the DIALOG Jesus died ot give us to PREVENT you from being a body member.
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
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