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What did those early pastors or shepherds of the people do that is no longer done by pastors today?
The duties of pastors in the early Church included rightly dividing bread from house to house[1] in a "daily ministration" of fervent charity. The modern Church now sends the people to the governments of the world an men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other providing the legal charity which is a snare.
I am a pastor or shepherd of sheep and in that life I may have been given a different understanding of the role of pastors in the Bible. Understanding the metaphor also allows us to understand the message of the parable of separating goats and sheep.
I am also a herdsman of cattle.
There are many metaphors in the Bible that are expressing principles of what it means to repent and seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Pastor vs Shepherd

The word pastor[2] appears in both the Old and New Testaments' translations but does it mean today what it meant thousands of years ago?

The word pastor in the New Testament is more commonly translated shepherd.[2]

If we want to use the term in the way that the scriptures intended we have to look back to the context in which it was originally used in both testaments.

Of course in the Old Testament the word we see as pastor which is Rah[3] is translated shepherd more often than it is translated pastor. But the word is actually far more often translated feed or fed.

Feed who, how, and when?

Rule what

The word Rah in the Hebrew includes the letter Reish which is often related to the idea of a "ruler". The term is even translated "ruler" in some translations but within the context of the Bible, it is not describing men as rulers over men who can exercise authority one over the other.

Then what did they "rule" since Christ forbid that His minister rule or "exercise authority one over the other."

Words like pastor, shepherd, and sheep are metaphors. The modern Church pastor does almost none of the essential things we find the first century Church ministers did.

Today, pastors hold positions among the people that would be foreign to the early ministers of the Church and rejected by the elders in congregations in those days of the early Church.

What did those early pastors or shepherds of the people do that is no longer being done by pastors today?

Ministers and Pastors

The noun minister in the testaments means servant and understanding how they served may come as a shock to modern Christians.

They did not rule over nor exercise authority one over the other.

But they may have ruled over some thing or things freely given them. The Bible and the Gospel of the kingdom is about freeing people, setting the captive free.

Freeing people from what?

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Servant Pastors

A shepherd or pastor is a part of a loving loving relationship in fellowship as a mutual symbiosis.[4] As a servant of Christ the minister is bound under the authority of Jesus who was clear on the subject of not being like the 'rulers of other governments' who exercise authority.[5]

The followers of Jesus, metaphorically identified as His sheep, hear His voice in their hearts and minds, gather in His name. And together with a shepherd of their choice they were to love one another.

Ranks of servants

Still, there was rank mentioned by Christ.[6] The rank was not as a ruler but as a servant.

Jesus also commanded that His disciples organize the people in small groups or companies of ten "elders" who were simply the heads families. These small intimate "companies" of ten families were further organized into "ranks" of a hundred. These groups of tens were linked by individuals who might be called pastors by the nature of their mission to rightly divide the bread from house to house.

The driving and ruling force in the early Church was not pastors or priests but the Holy Spirit dwelling in the hearts and minds of the elders as heads of families gathered in the network of free assemblies or congregations.

Also elders

The ministers or pastors were also "elders" of their own families. An elder was not an office of the Church but a description of a status within the foundation of society, the family. Shepherds, or pastors as a general descriptive term consisted of those who were chosen by the people in this network of tens, hundreds and thousands to help provide for the needs of society by charity alone, which is love. This would include everyone who was a part of the working network of charity from Apostles, Bishops, or Deacons.

Duties

Paul brought supplies and aid all over the Roman Empire to the early Christians during major dearths. He was able to do so because the early Church required those Christians organize themselves in a network by ranks of Tens as Christ commanded.

The duties of pastors in the early Church included rightly dividing bread from house to house[1] in a "daily ministration" of fervent charity.

The diligence[7] and sacrifice required in the practice of pure Religion created the bonds of fellowship of Christ.

Tables

Religion was defined as duty "to God and you fellowman" before the people prayed to the governments of the world who exercise authority for their free bread they went to church which provided daily bread through charity and love and pure Religion unspotted by the public religion of the world of FDR his New Deal and the public religion of Socialism.

Ignorance of The Way of God in tending to the temporal needs of their flocks undermines the spiritual message of Christ. The early Church provided all the welfare of the people by charity. The benefactors of the world provided welfare and Free bread through their government temples funded by tribute and taxation. Early Christians were persecuted for not signing up for the benefits of public religion. Those systems were not only covetous practices but they knew to eat at those tables which should have been for their welfare was a snare. The good pastor or shepherd should be Feeding the Sheep at the table of charity not tickling their ears justifying their covetous practices and the dainties offered at the tables of rulers in their cities of blood.

Early Christians were in conflict with Rome because they would not sign up for their system of welfare.

When Christians were being persecuted by the government of Rome Justin the Martyr wrote Emperor Antonius Pious and explained why Christians did not sign up for the "free bread" offered by their government.

“And the wealthy among us help the needy ... and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” "Justin the Martyr's Apology"

In providing the welfare of the people through charity they naturally bound the people through love. If "pastors " used some other means to feed or tend to the people other than charity or neglected their care altogether they were often condemned in the text.

Two pastors

One of the first place we see the word Pastor is in Jeremiah 2:8

  • "The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit."

While the root word Ra'ah is ReishAyinHey in the actual Hebrew text in this verse we see וְהָרֹעִ֖ים or wə·hā·rō·‘îm consisting of the letters VavHeyReishAyinYodMem.

This form only appears once in the Bible and is a reference to a Pastor who does not know God and His way and are seen as transgressing against Him.

"Feed my sheep!"
Pastors should be like shepherds who tend to all the welfare needs of the people in a daily ministration of faith, hope, and charity, so that none of the sheep of Christ have to eat at the tables of legal charity provided by the exercising authority of the Fathers of the earth.[8]
Before Jesus was able to provide the people with loaves and fishes in Mark 6:39 He "commanded" His disciples to "make" the people sit down in Tens. And then those groups were to organize in companies upon companies in divisions and "ranks" of "fifties and hundreds".
Christ also told His disciples not to be like the rulers and princes of the Gentiles who provided benefits by exercising authority one over the other.
Everyone who got the Baptism of Christ was "put out" by the ordinance of the Pharisees of the Jewish synagogue system which was also composed of ten families through which they provided welfare with the "Corban" of the people.
Christ appointed a kingdom to His "called out" group He called His "little flock" to be ministers or servants to the people in "free assemblies" not rulers like the "benefactors" of the "world" who "exercise authority". Every man should be led by the Holy Spirit to gather in order to love one another. The minister is supposed to be serving by making or requiring the people voluntarily organize themselves in Companies of tens, fifties and hundreds, and thousands so that people may love one another through daily ministration in the practice of Pure Religion as we see the early Church doing in history for centuries.
If all the people who say they are Christians were actually doing what Christ commanded, socialism would be obsolete and no one could be or would be exploited. Socialism is the religion you get when you refuse to do what Christ commanded and have no Pure Religion.

If you remove the Vav from VavHeyReishAyinYodMem you get הָרֹעִ֖ים or hā·rō·‘îm consisting of the letters HeyReishAyinYodMem. This form of the root word Ra'ah appears some 23 times in the Bible. It might refer to shepherds doing their job or failing to do their job in service to the people.[9] That job is often related to feeding or tending to the needs of the people.[10]

Whether we translate these words shepherd, pastor, herdsmen, or keep, feed or tend the people the term is referencing the manner in which someone assists the people in the practice of Pure Religion through a system of charitable welfare that strengthens the people and keeps them as free souls under God.

Ignorance of The Way of God may be a serious problem again with pastors who provide little or nothing of the temporal needs of their flocks.

Just 200 years ago almost all social welfare was provided by charity through the local communities and the local Churches. The welfare of America was not provided by men who just call themselves benefactors but only offer Legal charity which is not charity nor love but covetous practices that makes you merchandise and curse children.

Rulers of the governments of the world actually only give what they obtain by exercising authority one over the other and forcing the contributions of the people through taxation. They offer you deceitful meats and if you have an appetite for their dainties you should put a knife to your throat.[11]

Such free bread was condemned throughout the Bible. Jesus told us not to pray to the Fathers of the earth but to our Father who art in heaven for our daily bread.

If shepherd or pastor provide a daily ministration in a righteous way the people will be blessed by freedom under God. If they provide for the people in some unrighteous manner or unrighteous mammon (or even fail to provide for them altogether) then the pastors will be cursed as they have cursed the people and lead them back to be entangled in the yoke of bondage, make them merchandise and curse children as a surety to debt.

As we see the same word we see for pastor in Ephesians 4:11[12] is translated shepherd in John 10:11.[13]

The early Church provided daily bread for the poor through a daily ministration of Pure Religion thereby blessing the people with the wages of righteousness rather than the wages of unrighteousness offered by the world. The world had provided free bread through a system of Corban that sustained the welfare of the people through a system of force making the word of God to none effect.

Jeremiah warns[14] that "the pastors are become brutish" and is talking about when the people lose their religion of charity and take up the ways of socialism. The administers of those systems of welfare through public religion use force do not feed the people as much as they feed upon the people.[15]


Those welfare programs that use force depend on brutish pastors of the world who feed, tend and provide for the people through a system of force which David and Paul call a "snare".

Modern pastors

The Modern Church does not do what the early Church did because the Modern Christian is engaged in more covetous practices than they are engaged in the fervent charity that was commanded by Christ.

2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Jude 1:10 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.

True pastors

A true pastor today would be a true and good shepherd[13] for both temporal and spiritual needs.

A True pastors will only be a pastor to true Christians. Modern Christians are under Strong delusion.

The pastor who is worried about loosing members of his flock because he speaks the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom is a hireling.

What does it mean to be a brutish pastor or even be brutish as a people we see the word used in Jeremiah 10.

Brutish Pastors

  • "For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered." Jeremiah 10:21

Brutish is defined as "resembling or characteristic of a brute."

Brute is defined as a noun as "a savagely violent person or animal." and as an adjective it is defined as "unreasoning and animallike."

It is from the Latin word brutus meaning dull or stupid rather than savage.

In the Bible the word brutish can be translated from the Hebrew word ba‘ar[16] which is a noun. The Hebrew word baar consists of the letters BeitAyinReish (בָּעַר)‎and is defined "to burn, consume". But seven times it is translated "brutish".

In Jeremiah 10:21 we see niḇărū with the spelling NunBeitAyinReishVav (נִבְעֲרוּ֙).

In verse 8 we see yiḇărū and spelled YodBeitAyinReishVav (יִבְעֲר֣וּ).

  • "But they are altogether brutish <01197> and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities." Jeremiah 10:8

In verse 14 we see niḇar and spelled YodBeitAyinReish (נִבְעַ֤ר).

  • "Every man is brutish <01197> in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them." Jeremiah 10:14

There are at least 95 occurrences of the word Baar translated commonly as a form of burn or waste. The first place this term is Exodus 3:2 "the bush burned <01197> with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed."[17]

A brutish pastor burns but does consume and does not satisfy or quench.

In Jeremiah 7:20 we see "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn <01197>, and shall not be quenched."

This could be interpreted as the modern Church pastor who tickles the ears[18] and takes the money of the people but does not actually preach the whole gospel of the kingdom and the way that draws us near to the Holy Spirit who is the true comforter.

Brutes and fools

In Deuteronomy 17 Moses warns against giving to much power to government. One of the many warnings of Jesus repeated by the early Church which told the people that they should not go to men who exercise authority one over the other to obtain benefits. This included the prohibition of Christ that we should not get our daily bread from the "Fathers of the earth". The modern Church and even the home churches send the people to the very government Christ said we were no to be like.

The brutish pastor comes about because of the vanity of vanities[19]but they are also altogether foolish and tempt the people to make the "sacrifice of fools" written of in Ecclesiastes which is the Corban of the Pharisees which makes the word of God to none effect.

Christ told us not to go to the benefactors of governments who exercise authority one over the other to obtain our daily bread provided by the Fathers of the earth who encourage the covetous practices that make men merchandise and degenerate the masses. But the modern Church pastor fails to rightly divide the bread from house to house[20] like the early Church through Pure Religion by the practice of fervent charity.

The ministers of Christ were commanded by Christ in order to distribute bread needed by the people to have them organize in a network of Tens much like what Moses had done in Exodus. At that time a synagogue was ten families and it was through the synagogues which was the congregation of the day through which the people received their daily bread in time of need since Religion was the way you cared for the needy of society.

Rome and all the city-states offered some form of social welfare for it citizens. Some of those systems were based on freewill offerings but at the time of Christ most had transitioned to systems of Legal charity where there was an accounting and the use of an exercising authority[21] to obtain the reserve funds in a treasury to provide those benefits.

The religion of the heathen was considered idolatry because they were covetous practices.[22] The free bread of Rome decreased liberty[23] and degenerated the moral perception of the people turning them into human resources with less right to choose[24]

The whole gospel of John the Baptist was that you should take care of one another through charity and not force. Today, most of the social safety net of society is provided by the bureaucrats of those governments that call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other and the "pastors" are blind guides of the modern Church, whether it is a mega institution or a home church, do not see that the legal charity of the world is the covetous practices that entangle the people back into the yoke of bondage, and like the Corban of the Pharisees is making the word of God to none effect because pure Religion has been replaced with public religion.


  • "But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities." Jeremiah 10:8

What do they mean "brutish and foolish"?

Saul forced an offering of the people and was called foolish by Samuel. The Corban of the pharisees was the "sacrifice of fools" spoken of in Ecclesiastes 5.


Appearances

It appears five times in the Bible[25]


The adjective ba‘ar[26] appears in the Bible 94 times[27] but is only translated brutish about 7 times. It is 10 times more likely to be translated burn, kindle or burn up but also eaten, set, eat up twice each and even feed, heated, took, and wasted once each.

It would appear that what is dull or foolish or brutish can burn and waste the sacrifices of the people and even the people themselves when the nation commits adultery with the well favored harlot of their nation.

The brutish pastors of Jeremiah 10:21 scattered the flock which is why there are 40,000 denominations. But we also see God tells the son of man to prophesy against these shepherds who scatters the people but also do not feed the people but get fat themselves instead.[28]

But they also do not take care of the sick nor help those who are in bonds but in truth you bring the people into bonds and rule over them.[29]

This is what Herod and the Pharisees with their system of welfare that forced the Corban of the people who registered for their welfare system of their temples. John the Baptist opposed that system as did Christ because it makes the word of God to none effect.


Testament search for brutish

In the Old Testament we see the word brutish appearing 19 times.[30]


In the New Testament we find the word brute from the Greek word alogos[31] which means unreasonable or contrary to reason.[32]

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...Pastors who have become brutes <Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all th...

Necek
... and there is no breath in them. {brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know } ...falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {is brutish … : or, is more brutish than to know }

Proverbs 12
... Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

William Penn
... sin against God?’ Do not rush into sin, as a horse into battle, with a brutish violence; not considering that death is before him. Do not indulge yourselv
Psalms 49
[10] For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 92
[6] A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Psalms 94
[8] Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Proverbs 30
[2] Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Works of the law

  • “For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all th

Jeremiah 10
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his

Jeremiah 51
17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his


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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, 47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
  2. 2.0 2.1 4166 ~ποιμήν~ poimen \@poy-mane’\@ of uncertain affinity; n m AV-shepherd 15, Shepherd 2, pastor 1; 18
    1) a herdsman, esp. a shepherd
    1a) in the parable, he to whose care and control others have committed themselves, and whose precepts they follow
    2) metaph.
    2a) the presiding officer, manager, director, of any assembly: so of Christ the Head of the church; the NT uses the term bishop, overseers, 1985 pastors, 4166 elders, and presbyters 4245 interchangeably {#Ac 20:17,28 Eph 4:11 Tit 1:5,7 1Pe 5:1-4 etc.} 2a1) of the overseers of the Christian assemblies 2a2) of kings and princes
    The tasks of a Near Eastern shepherd were:
    • -to watch for enemies trying to attack the sheep
    • -to defend the sheep from attackers
    • -to heal the wounded and sick sheep
    • -to find and save lost or trapped sheep
    • -to love them, sharing their lives and so earning their trust.
  3. 07462 ^הער^ ra‘ah \@raw-aw’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-feed 75, shepherd 63, pastor 8, herdmen 7, keep 3, companion 2, broken 1, company 1, devour 1, eat 1, entreateth 1, misc 10; 173
    1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to tend, pasture
    1a1a) to shepherd
    1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig)
    1a1c) of people as flock (fig)
    1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst)
    1a2) to feed, graze
    1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal)
    1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig)
    1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess
    2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable)
    2a) (Qal) to associate with
    2b) (Hithpael) to be companions
    3) (Piel) to be a special friend
  4. symbiosis is an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. Types symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism, and competition.
  5. Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so: .. " see also Mark 10:42 and Matthew 20:25
  6. Luke 22:26 But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
  7. 2 Timothy 2:15 Study (be diligent) to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
  8. "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." John 15:10
  9. Exodus 2:17, Exodus 2:19, 1 Samuel 17:40, 1 Samuel 25:7, 2 Kings 10:12, Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 25:34-35, Jeremiah 25:36, Ezekiel 34:9,10, Zechariah 10:3, Zechariah 11:3, Zechariah 11:8
  10. 1 Chronicles 27:29, Songs 1:8, Songs 4:5, Jeremiah 23:2, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:8-10, Amos 1:2
  11. Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat." This is a metaphor for the welfare that was a snare spoken of in the Bible by David and Paul and the gifts, gratuities and benefits we were warned about by Plutarch who said it would take away our liberty and Polybius said would degenerate us into perfect savages and bring tyrants.
  12. Ephesians 4:11
    "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;"
  13. 13.0 13.1 John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine.
  14. Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
  15. 01197 ^רעב^ ba‘ar \@baw-ar’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 263} AV-burn 41,  …  away 21, kindle 13, brutish 7, eaten 2, set 2, burn up 2, eat up 2, feed 1, heated 1, took 1, wasted 1; 94
    1) to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to begin to burn, be kindled, start burning
    1a2) to burn, be burning
    1a3) to burn, consume
    1a4) Jehovah’s wrath, human wrath (fig.)
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to kindle, burn
    1b2) to consume, remove (of guilt) (fig.)
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to kindle
    1c2) to burn up
    1c3) to consume (destroy)
    1d) (Pual) to burn
    v denom
    2) to be stupid, brutish, barbarous
    2a) (Qal) to be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive
    2b) (Niphal) to be stupid, dull-hearted
    2c) (Piel) to feed, graze
    2d) (Hiphil) to cause to be grazed over
  16. 01198 ^רעב^ ba‘ar \@bah’- ar\@ from 01197 burn, consume, brutish; n m; AV-brutish 4, foolish 1; 5
    1) brutishness, stupidity, brutish (person)
  17. Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned <01197> with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
  18. 2 Timothy 4:3:1 "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,"
    1 Timothy 4:1 ¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  19. 01892 הֶבֶל‎ hebel [heh’bel] or (rarely in the abs.) הבל‎ habel [hab-ale’] from 01891 to act emptily; n m/adv; [BDB-210b] [{See TWOT on 463 @@ "463a" }] AV-vanity 61, vain 11, altogether 1; 73
    n m
    1) vapour, breath
    1a) breath, vapour
    1b) vanity (fig.)
    adv
    2) vainly
    • Same as the name Abel 01893 meaning breath
  20. Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
  21. Not exercise authority
    Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
    Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
    Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
  22. Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
  23. Destroyers of liberty
    "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
    There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
    We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
  24. "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
  25. Psalms 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person <01198> perish, and leave their wealth to others.
    Psalms 73:22 So foolish <01198> was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
    Psalms 92:6 A brutish <01198> man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
    Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish <01198>.
    Proverbs 30:2 Surely I am more brutish <01198> than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
  26. 01197 ^רעב^ ba‘ar \@baw-ar’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 263} AV-burn 41,  …  away 21, kindle 13, brutish 7, eaten 2, set 2, burn up 2, eat up 2, feed 1, heated 1, took 1, wasted 1; 94
    1) to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to begin to burn, be kindled, start burning
    1a2) to burn, be burning
    1a3) to burn, consume
    1a4) Jehovah’s wrath, human wrath (fig.)
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to kindle, burn
    1b2) to consume, remove (of guilt) (fig.)
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to kindle
    1c2) to burn up
    1c3) to consume (destroy)
    1d) (Pual) to burn
    v denom
    2) to be stupid, brutish, barbarous
    2a) (Qal) to be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive
    2b) (Niphal) to be stupid, dull-hearted
    2c) (Piel) to feed, graze
    2d) (Hiphil) to cause to be grazed over
  27. Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned <01197> with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
    Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt <01197>.
    Exodus 22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten <01197>, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed <01197> in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
    Exodus 22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled <01197> the fire shall surely make restitution.
    Exodus 35:3 Ye shall kindle <01197> no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
    Leviticus 6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn <01197> wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
    Numbers 11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt <01197> among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
    Numbers 11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt <01197> among them.
    Numbers 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted <01197>, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
    Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned <01197> with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
    Deuteronomy 5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn <01197> with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
    Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned <01197> with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
    Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put <01197> the evil away <01197> from the midst of thee.
    Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put <01197> the evil away <01197> from among you.
    Deuteronomy 17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away <01197> the evil from Israel.
    Deuteronomy 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away <01197> the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
    Deuteronomy 19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put <01197> the evil away <01197> from among you.
    Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away <01197> the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
    Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put <01197> evil away <01197> from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
    Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put <01197> evil away <01197> from among you.
    Deuteronomy 22:24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away <01197> evil from among you.
    Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put <01197> evil away <01197> from among you.
    Deuteronomy 26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away <01197> the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
    Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away <01197> ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
    Judges 15:5 And when he had set <01197> the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up <01197> both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
    Judges 15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt <01197> with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
    Judges 20:13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away <01197> evil from : Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
    2 Samuel 4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away <01197> from the earth?
    2 Samuel 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled <01197> by it.
    2 Samuel 22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled <01197>.
    1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away <01197> the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away <01197> dung, till it be all gone.
    1 Kings 16:3 Behold, I will take away <01197> the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
    1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away <01197> thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
    1 Kings 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took <01197> out of the land.
    2 Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away <01197>, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
    2 Chronicles 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn <01197> after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
    2 Chronicles 13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn <01197> every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
    2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away <01197> the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
    2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt <01197> his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
    Nehemiah 10:34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn <01197> upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
    Esther 1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned <01197> in him.
    Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up <01197> the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
    Psalms 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled <01197> but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
    Psalms 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled <01197> by it.
    Psalms 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned <01197>: then spake I with my tongue, Psalms 79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn <01197> like fire?
    Psalms 83:14 As the fire burneth <01197> a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
    Psalms 89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn <01197> like fire?
    Psalms 94:8 Understand, ye brutish <01197> among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
    Psalms 106:18 And a fire was kindled <01197> in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
    Isaiah 1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn <01197> together, and none shall quench them.
    Isaiah 3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up <01197> the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
    Isaiah 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning <01197>.
    Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up <01197>; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
    Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten <01197>: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
    Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth <01197> as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
    Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn <01197> and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
    Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish <01197>: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
    Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning <01197> with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
    Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle <01197> it.
    Isaiah 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning <01197> pitch.
    Isaiah 40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn <01197>, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
    Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned <01197> him, yet he laid it not to heart.
    Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle <01197> upon thee.
    Isaiah 44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn <01197>: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
    Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled <01197>. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
    Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth <01197>.
    Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn <01197> that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
    Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle <01197> the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
    Jeremiah 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn <01197>, and shall not be quenched.
    Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish <01197> and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
    Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish <01197> in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
    Jeremiah 10:21 For the pastors are become brutish <01197>, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
    Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning <01197> fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
    Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn <01197> that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
    Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning <01197> before him.
    Jeremiah 44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled <01197> in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
    Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish <01197> by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
    Lamentations 2:3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned <01197> against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
    Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning <01197> coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
    Ezekiel 5:2 Thou shalt burn <01197> with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
    Ezekiel 20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled <01197> it: it shall not be quenched.
    Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish <01197> men, and skilful to destroy.
    Ezekiel 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set <01197> on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn <01197> them with fire seven years::10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn <01197> the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
    Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated <01197> by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
    Hosea 7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth <01197> as a flaming fire.
    Nahum 2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn <01197> her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
    Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn <01197> as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  28. Ezekiel 34:1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe [be] to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
  29. Ezekiel 34:4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. 5 And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
  30. : Psalms 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
    Psalms 92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
    Psalms 94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
    Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
    Proverbs 30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
    Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
    Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities... 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them... 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
    Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
    Ezekiel 21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
  31. 249 ~ἄλογος~ alogos \@al’-og-os\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3056; TDNT-4:141,505; {See TDNT 431} adj AV-brute 2, unreasonable 1; 3
    1) destitute of reason
    2) contrary to reason, absurd
  32. Acts 25:27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable <249> to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
    2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute <249> beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
    Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute <249> beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.