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Learned

Are you Idiotes?

Unlearned

Were Peter and John unlearned and ignorant or is Acts 4:13[1] talking about something else? The Greek word used in the verse is agrammatos[2] which is only used once.
The English word unlearned appears numerous times in the New Testament Bible.[1]

We also see the word unlearned in 1 Corinthians 14[1] but it is the Greek word we see three times is idiotes[3].

There are two more Greek words translated unlearned in the New Testament. There is the negative word apaideutos[4] which appears one time in 2 Timothy 2:23[1].

The other is another negative Greek word amathes[5] from the Greek word manthano[6] translated unlearned in the New Testament. There is the negative word apaideutoswhich appears one time in 2 Timothy 2:23[1]. amathes[5] only appears in 2 Peter 3:16.[1]

Are there really so many different words meaning specifically unlearned or can the context within the text and the Gospel of the kingdom tell us more?


Early Christians and the early Church worked in harmony according to the character of Christ, which is to say they came together in the name of Christ. They did this so that they were able to provide for one another in charity through a daily ministration and in the hard times that swept across the Roman Empire in what the testament calls "dearths".

They were all under the commandment to love one another from the time of Moses through Christ but they did not participate in the free bread or welfare offered by Rome nor as we see the Pharisees doing with their Corban which Jesus had condemned.

The Pharisees had chosen Caesar's ways to care for the needy of society and depended upon that government and its rulers who called themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over the other. Christ had forbid such covetous practices and the apostles and their testaments were full of similar warnings and admonitions.

Even the Old Testaments had warned us about the dainties and benefits of rulers becoming a trap and a snare. David was quoted by Paul concerning the tables of those men being offered as welfare and Peter told us they would make us "merchandise"and eventually curse children.

The Christians were not involved in the public affairs of welfare of the Pharisees nor of the public religion of Rome. Early Christians were persecuted by Marcus Aurelius because they did not register the birth of their children. There were generations by that time that were never registered with Caesar to get the benefits of his world. Christians were involved in public affairs of Christ working daily in the temple which we explain in detail.

The temple in Jerusalem, the same as those temples of Rome, were the center of their social welfare systems. There has always been two types of welfare systems which lead the people in opposite directions.

Those first souls to repent and begin to seek the government of God got the Baptism of John and eventually the Baptism of Christ's apostles. These people would eventually be called Christians because they had opted out of a social welfare system that had snared the people under the authority of Herod's welfare state and the Corban of the Pharisees which was making the word of God to none effect.

But far more important because the repented and did what Christ commanded they had become a part of the network of Tens that reached across the Roman Empire and beyond.

Christians had another king, one Jesus, and were standing fast in the perfect law of liberty instituted by Christ through His apostles whom had appointed a kingdom to.

But that kingdom was not like the kingdoms of the gentiles who exercised authority one over the other. Christ made it clear that his kingdom was at hand and it was not a part of the world of Pontius Pilate.

The persecution of Christians by public magistrates was often based on their refusal to participate in the temples' welfare systems of Rome. They did not apply for the "legal charity" of the Imperial Cult of Rome but practiced Pure Religion by faith, hope, and charity as God has always intended.

If the people will repent and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness which is the way of Christ they will turn from the way of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaohs and Caesars that brought the bondage of Egypt. To accept the idea that it is okay to force one another to contribute to your personal welfare is to accept the idea that it is okay to bite one another is an appetite for the gifts gratuities and grants which destroy liberty. The which we should avoid even if we must put a "knife" to your own throat. This idea of us all having one purse has always caused the people to run toward death. When the "masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force]]" the tyrants will rise up and the people and the social bonds needed to restrain them will be weakened like in the days of Sodom.

Learn more about what it meant to be a Christian and the conflict between Christians and the people of the world by reading and listening to the links above or Join the Living Network.


Audio file answering the question "Are Christians Idiots" from Blog Talk Radio
http://hisholychurch.net/audio/2011btr-christianidiots2241435.mp3



Are Christians Idiots?

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There are several words in the New Testament that are translated "world" and most of them do not mean the planet. Knowing what words meant at the time they were used in the writing of scriptures can be important to understanding the true meaning of the message intended in the text.
In John 17:5 There is a request by Jesus that the Father glorify[7] Him as it was before the world. In the next verse Jesus talks about the men which thou (God) gavest me out of the world: (ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου, ek tou kosmou)? Could this have to do with the apostles being idiotes?

Are Christians Idiots

When Christ spoke of the Kingdom there was a revolution going on in Judea and the world. Rome was dead as a Republic and the Caesars as emperors had seized power from the masses. Those who refused to participate in the welfare schemes of the temple of Jupiter were seen as idiotes.

Herod had followed some of the same political patterns that we saw in the day of a Julius Caesar and his free bread, festivals, and feasts. With these new systems of social welfare provided by the rulers of the governments of Rome introduced new elements to society and culture.

When the people developed an appetite for benefits of free bread at the expence of their neighbor they forfeted the own rights. They, the masses, were wooed to sell their allegiance, their inheritance, and their liberty by their appetite for the reward of unrighteousness provided at the tables of public religion which was idolatry.[8]

The policies and practices of these politicians and the appetite of the people had the world on a one-way road to social and economic destruction. John the Baptist and Jesus were going to be turning the world upside down with an alternative to a dependance upon their tables of social welfare which had in the past been a snare. They were clearly shaming[9] the hypocrites who claimed to be following Moses but did not know him nor the God who sent him to set the captive free.

A private person

"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." Acts 4:13

The word translated ignorant is not the normal Greek word agnoeo meaning ignorant or unlearned[10] but it is the Greek word idiōtēs (ἰδιώτης) from idios meaning as 'pertaining to one's self, one's own, belonging to one's self'.[11]

This Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs is said to mean 'a private person, individual' (as opposed to the state), 'a private citizen' (as opposed to someone with a political office). Hence is said to be 'a common man'. A "common man" could be "natural man" before his natural rights were compromised by contracts, oaths, and the gifts, gratuities, and benefits.

It was only later it began to suggested to be the 'unskilled', 'ignorant', derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios 'personal' (not public, not shared).

One of the reason this evolution of the meaning of this word and many others has taken place is because of the dependence of the citizens of a civil society upon the welfare provided by rulers at civic tables which David and Paul called a snare and a trap.

During the growth of this dependence of the citizens" upon those social welfare tables as a civil society a corresponding degenerative phenomena takes place within the hearts and minds of the masses spoken of by all the prophets.

If the Word of God is the Logos of Christ which includes the doctrine of Jesus then understanding all that in accordance with the Will of God which is the Law of Nature then how do we reach an understanding of all these different sources we may wish to believe. As an example, the bible states that is not given to private interpretation.[12] It requires the inspiration of the source of Life which is God which evidently comes by way of the Holy Spirit which is called the Comforter.

We know that the Corban of the Pharisees and Herod makes the Word of God and therefore the Logos of Christ is also made to none effect and the Comforter will not come to us if we do nor repent and seek the Corban of Christ which provides the daily ministration of the kingdom of God. So, those who are engaged in the covetous practices of the civil welfare of the unrighteous mammon will have their hearts and minds of the masses degenerated into darkness so that they will not be able to truly interpret nor understand the scriptures.

The new woke crowd who lives in this darkness will imagine those who don't to be idiots.

The English word “idiot” comes from the Latin idiōta which was used to refer to an ignorant person. Romans in their arrogance at that time in their own civil history evolved, the Republic long being dead, and believed that everyone should submit to their rule. That rule had expanded under the free bread of the emperators as predicted by Polybius with the people's ever increasing appetite for benefits.

But in the Greek idiōtēs as used in Acts may have meant simply a private "person not involved in public affairs" of the Roman State which was degenerating away the liberty from what it once was in the Libera res publica. This descent into a darkness also made the people little more than merchandise because it allows the people to bite one another through the teeth of civil authority.

An unregistered person

Even the word translated unlearned in this text is not the Greek agnoeo nor amathes which can mean ignorant but it is the word agrammatoi[2] which only appears once in the Bible and according to Professor Markus Nikolaus Andreas Bockmuehl, a biblical scholar specializing in Early Christianity, “should not be rendered ‘unlearned'”[13] He goes on to say "To be an idiotes is to be outside of the guild, or outside of the group..."[13]

Of course, all the apostles as a part of the called out of Christ were not to be a part of the world which is detailed in John 17.[14]

Timothy writes[15] that we should not be unlearned using a term () which can mean ignorant.

This word agrammatoi'[2]' is rare in any Greek text. Its meaning may depend on the period and use in context. I have found it describing the muster rolls of a battalion or a registry of members kept by scribes.

A point of Seperation

Christians provided for one another in charity and did not participate in the free bread and welfare of Rome as we see the Pharisees doing.[16]

The Pharisees had chosen Caesar's ways and form of government as their benefactor. The Christians were not involved in the public affairs of the Pharisees and Herod with their civil law system of social welfare run through their temples.

Christians were involved in public affairs of Christ working daily in the temple.[17]

The temple in Jerusalem, the same as those of Rome, was the center of their social welfare. With the baptism of John and Christ's followers, who were eventually called Christians, had opted out of a social welfare system that had snared the people under the authority of Herod's welfare state.[18]

Christians had another king, one Jesus, and were standing fast in the liberty of Christ. The persecution of Christians by public magistrates was often based on their refusal to participate in the temple welfare systems of Rome where the Fathers of the earth exercise authority one over the other to provide the benefits of their civil welfare.

The word translated marvelled in Acts is “thaumazo” which is also translated in the Bible as "have in admiration" and "admire" . They were impressed and yet they did not like what they were hearing. Many modern Christians would not want to hear the truth of what the early Church was doing either.

The Pharisees had been teaching things that were contrary to God, Moses and now Jesus. They professed God with their lips in vain. The people were going back into the bondage of Egypt under the imperial powers of Rome[19] contrary to the command of God.[20]

They had been running their government and leading the people in a way that violated the Spirit of the Law established by God and His precepts upon precepts. They were making the word of God to none effect with their social welfare programs.

Many will decry this interpretation of agrammatoi eisin kai idiōtai[3].[21] Christians need to be willing to know the whole truth and look at all things anew. If you will not learn the context in history when the Bible was written you will fail to understand the meaning of the authors. Simple misinterpretations by private souls can take the people a long way off course in their quest for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Early Rome and America

Early Rome, like the Americans of the 17th century, had learned to govern themselves according to the ideals of the earliest republics. But maintaining that form of government requires great diligence and virtue.[22]

The Roman people had begun to look to their elected officials and then the office of Caesar for every social benefit which was called legal charity in early America but free bread in Rome. The more they neglected individual responsibility the more their liberty, their right to choose, declined.[23]

With each new benefit, the government became more and more powerful and the people became more self-indulgent, apathetic and weak. Rome had become the peacekeepers of the world and soon offered themselves as benefactors to other nations, but not without a heavy price.

They would exercise authority over the people who were slothful in the practices of honor and virtue taught by the prophets of God. The masses of people did not heed the prophetic warnings of their own prophets like Polybius.

"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [24] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[25] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [26] [27]

Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.
The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.

Rome like the United States[28] began exacting tribute[29] from its subjects citizens to obtain the funds needed to supply those new benefits.[30]

The more power the people granted by vote, appetite, or negligence and sloth the more the government became empowered, corrupt, and self-serving.

The practice of expanding government power through offering to care for the people and shower them with benefits[31] the more the people and the social bonds of a free society would degenerate. It is a pattern repeated in history and is as old as Cain and Nimrod Sodom and the bondage of Egypt.[32]

The move from a [Republic]] to a Democracy is often a move from liberty to slavery when the heart of the people are greedy for gain.

The way of covetousness

From the beginning we were not to covet our neighbor's goods nor were we to make covenants with the people round about us to take from our neighbor. If you choose to eat with a ruler you were to put a knife to your throat for your own protection.[33]

You were not to consent with people to obtain benefits where there is one purse.[34] If people failed to listen to these warnings then what should have been for their welfare would become that snare.[35]

Many of the people were entangled in the yoke of bondage and were snare under the elements of the world both legally and emotionally because of these false teachings that had crept into their eschatology.

Lawyers, Senates, and Sanhedrin bound the people through the establishment of a social welfare scheme they labeled Qorban and Corban. In 78 BC[36] the Pharisees and eventually Herod would expanded that social welfare system.

Jesus said through those ordinances they made the word of God to none effect.[37]

The original Corban, a form of social assurance, under Moses was based on free will offerings or sacrifice given through a living network of ministers who sought to serve the people. Herod's system included Rabbinical Baptism, contributions, a temple treasury to store them, scribes to keep track of the mandatory contribution of members [the temple tax], and a network of ministers and synagogues to distribute the benefits according to statutory limitations.

The Words and the way

The sacred texts should have been clear enough, but the Pharisees were able to twist the meaning of the words to justify themselves. The pride of the scholar strangles the hope of repentance. What part of freewill offering and charity do they not understand?

History of the Pharisees has repeated itself in the modern religions and they have all betrayed their founders.[38]

John the Baptist offered an alternative system. It also included a Baptism ritual but it operated much differently. His network of congregations and ministers provided for their needy in pure religion[39] through free will contributions – charity.[40] They did not have entitlements but lived by hope. They did not give allegiance but lived by faith. They did not force their neighbor to contribute but lived by charity. There is no more revolutionary gospel than Christ's.

Modern Christians are ignorant of the full “Gospel of the Kingdom” preached by Christ and the early Church. Some have even claimed that Jesus was a socialist. Modern socialism requires a social contract and the point of a sword to force the contributions of the people. Those who covet their neighbor's goods through the agency of these so-called state benefactors have become nothing more than human resources according to prophecy of Peter.[41]

They have more in common with the Pharisees than they do John or Jesus. That and their lack of knowledge is why they are back in bondage of the world.[42]

Christ preached a welfare system based on faith, hope, and charity which required social virtues and love for one another. The religious practice establishes the social bonds of righteousness through the Corban of Christ.

The ministers of their society were servants of the people in an alternative system that set men free who would practice Pure Religion. Jesus told many parables on how His government of righteousness must operate.

He talked about forgiving debt rather than arresting people and forcing them to pay for their desires.

He talked about the offering of a poor widow being of more value than that of the rich man. He fired the moneychangers and instructed the ministers in the royal treasury.[43]

He refused to appoint captains and princes to rule over the people but commanded the organize in free assemblies of tens.

He taught his minister that they were there to serve only.

This New Way was called the perfect law of liberty.[44] It was a system of individual responsibility and honor. It had congregations and ministers. It was organized from the bottom of the hearts of men who loved the way of Christ according to the precepts of God. It divided the goats and sheep.

Some of the people of Judea and the world went the way of Herod, Caesar, and Pharaoh and some went the way of Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus. The former denounced David and embraced the ways of Caesar and the latter embraced the highest son of David, the rightful king of Judea according to Rome.[45]

The Pharisees at the time of Christ were socialist. Christians simply would not participate in socialist schemes that compelled the contributions of their neighbor because Jesus said “But it shall not be so among you.”[46]

The strong delusion

People are under a strong delusion set forward by the Modern Pharisees of today posing as the Church established by Christ. They profess God and Jesus with their mouths, but they fall short of following His “Way”.

You cannot be a follower of Christ and seek to force your neighbor to contribute to your welfare at the point of a sword or gun. You cannot be a modern socialist and a Christian. Those who think they can may be considered idiots. They are certainly non-participators in the Gospel of the Kingdom preached by Christ.

We should all be striving to participate in the ways of Christ by serving one another in love and not coveting our neighbor's goods. If we are to be free we must set our neighbor free. If we are to be [forgive]n we must forgive our neighbor's debt.

There is no reason to opt-out of the world or its systems until you are ready to opt into the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. This would include sitting down in the Tens as Christ commanded and earnestly setting up a daily ministration of faith, hope, and Charity through the perfect law of liberty rather than by force, fear, and fealty and the covetous practices of the world which are a snare, makes you merchandise and curse children.

The priests and preachers who say it is okay to covet your neighbor's goods through the agency of governments are not preaching the Gospel of Christ. To say it is okay to bite one another will get the people devoured and is the gospel of the "brutish pastor". It is time to repent and seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness by striving to do the will of the Father.


Audio file answering the question "Are Christians Idiotes" from Blog Talk Radio

http://hisholychurch.net/audio/2011btr-christianidiots2241435.mp3


Follow up note:


Christians were idiotes[3], unregistered and not involved in public affairs of welfare of the Roman government nor the Pharisees. The welfare of those governments who forced the contributions of the people were off limits by the directives of Christ. This refusal to register for those benefits is why they were commonly persecuted.

Early Christians were persecuted by Marcus Aurelius because they did not register the birth of their children with the government temples of Caesar to get the benefits of his world. Christians were involved in public affairs of Christ working daily in the temple which we explain in detail.

The Modern Christian thinks it is okay to do so even though it is clearly coveting their neighbor's goods through the power and the agency of government that are often called benefactors but force the contributions of the people. This is a “damnable heresies... and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”[47] The word destruction[48] can mean the destruction of money or even the whole economy.

Peter goes on to say, in 2 Peter 2:2 “And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”

Unfortunately, it is often the modern Churches that are leading the people in these pernicious ways.

What are those destructive ways?

Peter tells you in the very next verse.

  • “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” 2 Peter 2:3

It is a great delusion to think you are following Christ when you are doing like those who rule over the other nations.[49]

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."

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."</Ref>

What part of it shall not be so with you don't they understand.

We offer volumes of research and resources to take the scales off your eyes.[50] We have put it all together over many decades. If your heart does not show you the truth of charity and love vs. force in forming a viable society no fact, no research, no expert opinion will undue your bondage.

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)”
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.” 2 Peter 2:4...

The word translated government is kuriotes[51] meaning “dominion”.

God gave men Dominion. When men give that dominion to other men they are neglecting the personal obligation to exercise that God given responsibility... Why does the modern Church speak evil of dignities...


  • "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it." Patrick Henry

This article is from http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/idiots.php


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"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." Luke 2:1

The word we see translated "tax" appears three times[52] in Luke and actually means "specifically to enter in public records the names of men, their property and income; to enroll".[53] It also appears in Hebrews but is translated "written".[54] In the Old Testament the firstborn were specifically the Levites who were the "called out Church in the wilderness" and in the New Testament the "called out" were the disciples of Jesus who were called the church and appointed by Christ, our mediator.[55]

The Romans seldom did anything without a purpose, a plan, and the hope of profit. To have a good plan they needed good information. When Augustus' commemorative account of his achievements (Res Gestae) prominently featured the geographical cataloging of peoples and places within the Empire. Geography, the census, and the meticulous keeping of written records were central concerns of Roman Imperial administration.[56]

There were from 45 to 65 million people in the Roman Empire at different times and a census was often scheduled every 5 years. Augustus's own census information recorded almost 5,000,000 citizens of Rome.[57]

This was no small task and required a uniform method, places to store the record and people you could trust. This is where the Temples, often built by the Roman government provided the place and the trusted priests and priestesses, in the case of Rome, performed the process.

Shortly before Julius Caesar, the Romans depended upon nd all voluntary army. Gaius Marius and the Marian Reforms' moved to a professional army which did more to alter Roman society than many realize.[58]

The vast wealth accumulated by Generals bought them prestige and political power. Those gifts, gratuities, and grants to the people by congiarium[59]not only bought the "license to do no wrong"[60] it robbed the people of the responsibility of doing what is right through their deceitful dainties.

These deceitful dainties of rulers were also offered to the Roman client states or allies. They would also be obligated to provide tribute and even supply reinforcements to the Roman army. As provinces would be required to show consent by agreement and make "a register of cities", a "census of the population, and a "surveying the land".[61] Their government recordkeeping included births and deaths, real estate transactions, taxes, and juridical proceedings. [62] Among these client states were Pontus, Cappadocia, Bithynia, Judea, Palestine, and, by 65 BCE, Armenia. In Africa Mauretania, Algeria and Morocco also became client states.

In order to be taxed, you must be counted. Both the benefits and the Tax obligations were determined by the census, which required each head of a household to appear before the presiding official and provide a headcount of his household, as well as an accounting of property he owned that was suitable for agriculture or habitation.[63]

A census as well as taxation in those days required some form of accounting and usually required a token to mark[64] those who had been counted. The census called for by Augustus “was regarded as the badge of servitude, and incompatible with the Theocratic character of Israel”.[65]

Judea did not hate Rome. Many loved and desired their protection, generosity, and social security; besides, they were good for business. There were rebels, as always. There was corruption, as always. Caesar was the protector of their peace, the benefactor of their welfare.

Many Jews loved the Emperor (Emperator),[66] the commander-in-chief of the multinational military force that kept the peace throughout the world. Augustus Caesar offered many gifts, gratuities, and benefits as the Patronus of the Pax Romana, The Father of Roman Peace.

“The annual Temple-tribute was allowed to be transported to Jerusalem, and the alienation of these funds by the civil magistrates treated as sacrilege. As the Jews objected to bear arms, or march, on the Sabbath, they were freed from military service. On similar grounds, they were not obliged to appear in courts of law on their holy days. Augustus even ordered that, when the public distribution of corn or of money among the citizens fell on a Sabbath, the Jews were to receive their share on the following day. In a similar spirit the Roman authorities confirmed a decree by which the founder of Antioch, Seleucus I. (Nicator, [d Ob.280 B.C.]) had granted the Jews the right of citizenship in all the cities of Asia Minor and Syria which he had built, and the privilege of receiving, instead of the oil that was distributed, which their religion forbade them to use, [e Ab. Sar ii. 6] an equivalent in money. [Jos.Ant. Xii. 3. 1]. These rights were maintained by Vespasian and Titus even after the last Jewish war, not with standing the earnest remonstrances of these cities. No wonder, that at the death of Caesar the Jews of Rome gathered for many nights, waking strange feelings of awe in the city, as they chanted in mournful melodies their Psalms around the pyre on which the body of their benefactor had been burnt, and raised their pathetic dirges.”[67]

The call for all the world to be taxed was a call for all the world to be enrolled as the beneficiaries of the The Father of Roman Peace.

“The year 2 B.C. marked the 25th anniversary of Caesar Augustus’s rule and the 750th anniversary of the founding of Rome. Huge celebrations were planned. The whole empire was at peace. The doors of the temple of Janus were closed for only the third time in Roman history. To honor their emperor, the people were to rise as one and name him pater patriae, or Father of the Country. This enrollment, described in the Book of Luke, which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, has always been a mystery since no regular census occurred at this time. But the pater patriae enrollment fits perfectly.”[68]


Call no [man] your father

"But be not ye called Rabbi[69]: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:8-9

Parens patriae[70] is Latin for "parent of the nation". Parens patriae is not just an ancient doctrine but is found as the power of the modern state to control the activities of the people in Title 15 Commerce and Trade[71], Title 12, Banks And Banking[72], Title 18. Crimes And Criminal Procedure[73], Title 49. Transportation[74] and Title 42. Public Health and Welfare[75] of the United States Codes[76] and the laws of the several states.

The enrollment in the benefits schemes of the state alters the relationship and status of the people. Many Jews refused to register on religious grounds and were considered "idiotes".[77] The more people apply to the benefaction of the state the more power the state has over the people. Plutarch wrote in his "Life of Coriolanus" (c. 100 AD.), "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities." But Polybius had warned the people 250 years earlier what the fate of the masses would be the fate of the nation if they become accustomed to taking these treats and gratuities of the State.

Herod the Great needed the favor and support of Rome and conformed to the changes that were taking place in Rome to maintain his ruling power. He was for the census and enrollment in his own scheme set up with the help of the Pharisees which perverted the ancient system of Corban into an entitlement program no longer dependent on freewill offerings.

Some put the date at 4BC at Herod's death in 4BC but that is highly disputed and likely wrong based on a misidentified lunar eclipse. There were other eclipses. It is possible that a transcriber or the author of Luke's gospel made an error identifying which census. There were also a number of the local census of varying kinds and what Quirinius was doing and when ruling is also disputed because there is some evidence that he was in charge during other periods including some rebellions in Galilee. None of this is substantive to the message. Some people even try disputing the existence of Christ with this conflicting information. These dates used is based on Josephus who does not dispute Christians and verifies them with Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 of the Antiquities with the line "the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James". Herod was a client king of Judea who rebuilt the Second Temple (in Jerusalem) known as Herod's Temple. He instituted the Baptism of the temple that established the Corban of the Pharisees that according to Jesus made the word of God to none effect.

Besides registering the adults you would also have to register newborn children just as Rome was doing. Some opposed this registration of children on religious and doctrinal bases but some understood it was part of a three-step plan according to Jus Romanus (Roman Law) to make the State the Father of the people.

  • "Birth registration in ancient Rome. Birth certificates for Roman citizens were introduced during the reign of Augustus (27 BC–14 AD). Until the time of Alexander Severus (222–235 AD), it was required that these documents be written in Latin as a marker of "Romanness" (Romanitas)."[78]

"Birth registration" was important to create a uniform rule for the distribution of benefits, duties, and obligations. It was a part of a three-step process founded in natural law to create a legal system which made the State the Father of a nation.

The government of Rome provided many benefits like free bread through the Imperial Cult of Rome run through the government-sponsored Temples. These certificates were stored in the Temple of Saturn. Religion had always been the institution providing for the poor or needy of society such as widows and orphans. From the Altars of Clay and Stone of Abraham and Moses there were safeguards[79]in the practice of religion among the Israelites to prevent the Levite priests from gaining to much power. There were also constitutional limitations imposed by the Bible in Deuteronomy 17 if the people elected to create any offices of power such as kings, presidents, or prime ministers. When these safeguards against tyranny were ignored or forgotten governments of the world became corrupt, society began to decay, and its members began to degenerate.

“Herod’s greatest fault was his ungovernable passion both in love and hate. This coupled with his constant fear of losing this throne led to most of his ‘crimes’ especially those committed within his own family.”[80]
  • Herod Archelaus (23 BC–c. AD 18), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD, when Judaea province was formed under direct Roman rule, at the time of the Census of Quirinius.[81] He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace the Samaritan, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip I. In 4 BC Augustus allotted to him the greater part of the kingdom (Samaria, Judea, and Idumea) with the title of ethnarch (not king).

Archelaus is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13-23). In it, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fled to Egypt to avoid the Massacre of the Innocents. When Herod the Great died, Joseph was told by an angel in a dream to return to Israel (presumably to Bethlehem). However, upon hearing that Archelaus had succeeded his father as ruler of Judaea he "was afraid to go thither" (Matthew 2:22), and was again notified in a dream to go to Galilee. This is Matthew's explanation of why Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea but grew up in Nazareth.

The beginning and conclusion of Jesus's Parable of the minas, the master gives 10 of his servants one mina each and tells them to engage in trade while he is away. This parable in the Gospel of Luke 19:12-27 may refer to Archelaus' journey to Rome. Some interpreters conclude from this that Jesus' parables and preaching made use of events familiar to the people as examples for bringing his spiritual lessons to life. Others read the allusion as arising from later adaptations of Jesus's parables in the oral tradition before the parables were recorded in the gospels.

Edmund Burke first wrote of the "great unwashed" masses in regards to the mobs of the French revolution. Those "unwashed masses" are said to be "The collective group ("masses") of people who are considered by someone to be somehow uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles." To Christians the "unwashed" would be all the people who have not received the "baptism of repentance" which was a part of the process of seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness which leads to the remission of sins.


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned<62> and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
    1 Corinthians 14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned<2399> say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
    1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned<2399>, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
    1 Corinthians 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or [one] unlearned<2399>, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
    2 Timothy 2:23 But foolish and unlearned<521> questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
    2 Peter 3:16 As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned<261> and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 62 ~ἀγράμματος~ agrammatos \@ag-ram-mat-os\@ from 1 (as negative particle) and 1121; ; adj AV-unlearned 1; 1
    1) illiterate, unlearned, without learning, unlettered {#Ac 4:13}
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 2399 ~ἰδιώτης~ idiotes \@id-ee-o’-tace\@ from 2398; TDNT-3:215,348; {See TDNT 322} n m AV-unlearned 3, ignorant 1, rude 1; 5
    1) a private person as opposed to a magistrate, ruler, king
    2) a common soldier, as opposed to a military officer
    3) a writer of prose as opposed to a poet
    4) in the NT, an unlearned, illiterate, man as opposed to the learned and educated: one who is unskilled in any art
  4. ↑ 521 ~ἀπαίδευτος~ apaideutos \@ap-ah’-ee-dyoo-tos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 3811; TDNT-5:596,753; {See TDNT 579} adj AV-unlearned 1; 1
    1) without instruction, and disciple, uneducated, ignorant, rude
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 261 ~ἀμαθής~ amathes \@am-ath-ace’\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3129; ; adj AV-unlearned 1 (2 Peter 3:16 ) ; 1 1) unlearned, ignorant
  6. ↑ 3129 ~μανθάνω~ manthano \@man-than’-o\@ prolongation from a primary verb, another form of which, matheo, is used as an alternate in certain tenses; TDNT-4:390,552; {See TDNT 464} v AV-learn 24, understand 1; 25
    1) to learn, be appraised
    1a) to increase one’s knowledge, to be increased in knowledge
    1b) to hear, be informed
    1c) to learn by use and practice
    1c1) to be in the habit of, accustomed to
    see also 521 apaideutos, 62 agrammatos, and 2399 idiotes from 2398 idios, [3]
  7. ↑ 1392 δοξάζω doxazo [dox-ad’-zo] from 1391 {opinion, judgment, view); v; TDNT-2:253,178; [{See TDNT 197 }] AV-glorify 54, honour 3, have glory 2, magnify 1, make glorious 1, full of glory 1; 62
    1) to think, suppose, be of opinion
    2) to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
    3) to honour, do honour to, hold in honour
    4) to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour
    4a) to impart glory to something, render it excellent
    4b) to make renowned, render illustrious
    4b1) to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged
  8. ↑ 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."
  9. ↑ Shamed
    Matthew 3:7 "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
    Matthew 12:34 "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
    Matthew 23:33 "[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
    Luke 3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
    Luke 10:13 "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."
    Luke 11:42 "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. 44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them].45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest <5195> us also. 46 And he said, Woe unto you also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them."
    Luke 11:52 "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered."
    Luke 13:17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed <2617>: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
    Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
    Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
    Matthew 23:13 "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24 [Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men’s] bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,"
  10. ↑ ἀγράμματος agnoeo meaning to be ignorant, not to know {Acts 13:27, Acts 17:23 Romans 10:3 2 Peter 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:38; Mark 9:32 Luke 9:45; Hebrews 5:2}
  11. ↑ "Etymology. Idiot as a word derived from the Greek idiotes, person lacking professional skill', 'a private citizen', 'individual', from idios, private, one's own." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Idiot#Etymology
  12. ↑ Interpretation of Scriptures
    2 Peter 1:20 "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation<1955>. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
    2 Timothy 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works."
    Acts 1:16 "Men [and] brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus."
    John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
    John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:"
    John 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
    John 16:7 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you."
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 “The words agrammatoi and idiotai should not be rendered ‘unlearned and ignorant’, as in the King James Version (and ASV).” "The Cambridge Companion to Jesus" by Markus Bockmuehl, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. Author of Revelation and mystery in ancient Judaism and Pauline Christianity (1990), This Jesus: martyr, Lord, Messiah (1994), The Epistle to the Philippians (1997), and Jewish law in Gentile churches: halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics (2000).
  14. ↑ Not of this world
    John 17:6-18“‭6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: ... ‭9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, ... ‭11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, ... ‭12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. ‭13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. ‭14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ‭15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. ‭16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ‭17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. ‭18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”
    John 18:33 "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?... 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
    John 19:19 "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."
  15. ↑ “‭21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. ‭22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ‭23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.” 2 Timothy 2:21-23
  16. ↑ Departed vs Deported, Chapter 12. of the book The Covenants of the gods
    http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog12devde.php
    Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-12.mp3
  17. ↑ Matthew 26:55 "In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me."
    Mark 14:49 "I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled."
    Luke 19:47 "And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,"
    Luke 22:53 "When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
    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,"
    Acts 5:42 "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
  18. ↑ John 9:19-34 Water Baptism http://www.hisholychurch.org/declarations/baptism/waterbaptism.php
  19. ↑ Employ vs Enslave Chapter 4. of the book The Covenants of the gods http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php
    Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuz-hFKM_Ts
    Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-04.mp3
  20. ↑ Deuteronomy 17:16 , Ezekiel 29:14, 1 Samuel 8:7-8
  21. ↑ ἀγράμματοι εἰσιν καὶ ἰδιῶται
  22. ↑ A Pure Republic, The Higher Liberty, Sec. 13 http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/purrepublic.php
  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. ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
  25. ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
  26. ↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book at Loeb's classic library, or see our comparison of translations at Polybius#Translations_compare
  27. ↑ An alternate translation in context, "9. For no sooner had the knowledge of the jealousy and hatred existing in the citizens against them which is replaced by democracy, emboldened some one to oppose the government by word or deed, than he was sure to find the whole people ready and prepared to take his side. Having then got rid of these rulers by assassination or exile, they do not venture to set up a king again, being still in terror of the injustice to which this led before; nor dare they intrust the common interests again to more than one, considering the recent example of their misconduct: and therefore, as the only sound hope left them is that which depends upon themselves, they are driven to take refuge in that; and so changed the constitution from an oligarchy to a democracy, and took upon themselves the superintendence and charge of the state. And as long as any survive who have had experience of oligarchical supremacy and domination, they regard their present constitution as a blessing, and hold equality and freedom as of the utmost value. But as soon as a new generation has arisen, and the democracy has descended to their children’s children, long association weakens their value for equality and freedom, and some seek to become more powerful than the ordinary citizens; and the most liable to this temptation are the rich. (which degenerates into rule of corruption and violence, only to be stopped by a return to despotism.) So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbours, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honours, produces a reign of mere violence. Then come tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishments, redivisions of land; until, after losing all trace of civilisation, it has once more found a master and a despot." Translator: Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Release Date: November 8, 2013 [EBook #44126]
  28. ↑ Rome vs US. Does history repeat itself because man does not repent? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/romeus.php
  29. ↑ Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.”
  30. ↑ “He who receives the benefit should also bear the disadvantage.” “Cujus est commodum ejus debet esse incommodum.”
  31. ↑ “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch, 2000 years ago.
  32. ↑ Nimrod, The Hunter http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/hunter.php
    Nimrod, NN Video Series:1-10 5:32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ums_7aYcv0c
  33. ↑ Proverbs 23:1 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
    Daniel 1:8 "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself."
  34. ↑ Proverbs 1: “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not... Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:... Surely in vain the net is spread... for those greedy for gain...”
  35. ↑ Psalms 69:22 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.”
    Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
  36. ↑ The Corban of the Pharisees http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php
  37. ↑ Mark 7:11 “But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free]. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
  38. ↑ See Thy Kingdom Comes, Chapter 2. Abraham Uncivilized http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/
  39. ↑ Pure Religion http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php
  40. ↑ Luke 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
  41. ↑ 2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
  42. ↑ This World, Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQlOGyf7to Not of the World? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php
  43. ↑ Mark 12:41-43. The Greek gazophulakion means the royal or public treasure
  44. ↑ James 1:25 "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
  45. ↑ Matthew 2:2, 27:11-37, Mark 15:26, Luke 23:38, John 19:19-22
  46. ↑ Matthew 20:26 "But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;"
    Mark 10:43 "But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:"
    "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." Luke 22:26
  47. ↑ 2 Peter 2:1 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
  48. ↑ 684 ~ἀπώλεια~ apoleia \@ap-o’-li-a\@ from a presumed derivative of 622; n f AV-perdition 8, destruction 5, waste 2, damnable 1, to die + 1519 1, perish + 1498 + 1519 1, pernicious 1; 20
    1) destroying, utter destruction
    1a) of vessels
    2) a perishing, ruin, destruction
    2a) of money
    2b) the destruction which consists of eternal misery in hell
  49. ↑ 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."
  50. ↑ See outline on the Church website: http://www.hisholychurch.org/outline.php
  51. ↑ 2963 ~κυριότης~ kuriotes \@koo-ree-ot’-ace\@ from 2962; TDNT-3:1096,486; {See TDNT 418} n f AV-dominion 3, government 1; 4
    1) dominion, power, lordship
    2) in the NT: one who possesses dominion
  52. ↑ Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed <583>.
    Luke 2:3 And all went to be taxed <583>, every one into his own city.
    Luke 2:5 To be taxed <583> with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
  53. ↑ 583 ~ἀπογράφω~ apographo \@ap-og-raf’-o\@ from 575 and 1125; v AV-tax 3, write 1; 4
    1) to write off, copy (from some pattern)
    2) to enter in a register or records
    2a) spec. to enter in public records the names of men, their property and income
    2b) to enroll
  54. ↑ Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  55. ↑ Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
  56. ↑ Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire. Claude Nicolet, (1991). University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-10096-5.
  57. ↑ "A third time, with the consular imperium, and with my son Tiberius Caesar as my colleague, note I performed the lustrum in the consulship of Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Apuleius. In this lustrum 4,937,000 Roman citizens were entered on the census roll. By the passage of new laws I restored many traditions of our ancestors which were then falling into disuse, and I myself set precedents in many things for posterity to imitate." Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Section 8, Tablet 2. (Eng. The Deeds of the Divine Augustus)
    Latin, "Et tertium consulari cum imperio lustrum conlega Tib. Caesare filio meo feci, Sex. Pompeio et Sex. Appuleio cos. Caesare filio meo feci Sex. Pompeio et Sex. Appuleio cos., quo lustro censa sunt civium Romanorum capitum quadragiens centum millia et nongenta triginta et septem millia. Legibus novis me auctore latis multa exempla maiorum exolescentia iam ex nostro saeculo reduxi et ipse multarum rerum exempla imitanda posteris tradidi." Res Gestae Divi Augusti.
    Note: "civium Romanorum capitum" literally translates "of the heads of the citizens of the Romans".
  58. ↑ Citizen militia to a professional army; Removed property requirement of legionnaire and allowed Capite Census to join; State supplied wages and armor; allowed officers and soldiers to profit from loot and plunder.
  59. ↑ Of Ancient Roman containers, a congiarium, or congiary, was a vessel containing one congius, a measure of volume equal to six sextarii. In the early times of the Roman Republic, the congius was the usual measure of oil or wine which was, on certain occasions, distributed among the people; and thus congiarium became a name for liberal donations to the people whether consisting of oil, wine, grain, or money, or other things.
  60. ↑ “In my 13th consulship I gave 60 denarii to each plebeian who was at that time receiving bread from the state. A little more than 200,000 people availed of this congiarium” (Deeds of Augustus [Res Gestae]
    Some emperors granted 100s of denarii beside free bread and other commodities every year.
  61. ↑ Potter (2009), p. 183.
  62. ↑ Potter (2009), pp. 177–179.
  63. ↑ A Companion to the Roman Empire, David S. Potter, ed. (2009). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-9918-6.
  64. ↑ A common token could be a clay Tesserae.
  65. ↑ The sole grounds of resistance to the census, appears from Jos. Ant. xviii. 1. 1, 6.
  66. ↑ Emperator, emperatoris m. commander in chief. Collins L.E. Dict. ‘62.
  67. ↑ Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Chapt. V, Alfred Edersheim, Jewish convert to Christianity and a Biblical scholar.
  68. ↑ The Star of Bethlehem by Crag Chester, Imprimis D/96 Hilsdale College.
  69. ↑ 4461 ῥαββί rhabbi [hrab-bee’] of Hebrew origin 07227 רַבִּי‎ meaning many or great with pronominal suffix; n m; TDNT- 6:961,982; [{See TDNT 685 }] AV-Master (Christ) 9, Rabbi (Christ) 5, rabbi 3; 17
    1) my great one, my honourable sir
    2) Rabbi, a title used by the Jews to address their teachers (and also honour them when not addressing them)
  70. ↑ "Parens patriae" is Latin for “father of the Fatherland” a title originally accorded in the form parens urbis Romanae, or "parent of the Roman city". It was accorded to Marcus Furius Camillus in 386 BC because he led the city's recovery after its capture by the Gauls (c. 390 bc). In the legal system, "parens patriae is a doctrine that allows the state to step in and serve as a guardian for children, the mentally ill, the incompetent, the elderly, or disabled persons who are unable to care for themselves."https://study.com/academy/lesson/parens-patriae-in-juvenile-justice-definition-doctrine.html
  71. ↑ 15 U.S. Code § 15 Applicability of parens patriae actions § 15h. Applicability of parens patriae actions Sections 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, and 15g of this title shall apply in any State...
  72. ↑ Title 12. Banks And Banking, Chapter 53. "the State, as parens patriae, may bring a civil action on behalf of its residents in an appropriate district court...
  73. ↑ Title 18. Crimes And Criminal Procedure, Part I. Crimes, Chapter 77. Peonage, Slavery, And Trafficking, In Persons, Section 1595. Civil Remedy adversely affected by any person who violates section 1591, the attorney general of the State, as parens patriae, may bring a civil action against such person on behalf of the residents of the State...
  74. ↑ Title 49. TRANSPORTATION, ...the attorney general of the state may, as parens patriae,” for “a State authority may”...
  75. ↑ Title 42. THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, Chapter 7. SOCIAL SECURITY... residents of that State has been or is threatened or adversely affected by any person who violates a provision of this part, the attorney general of the State, as parens patriae, may bring...
  76. ↑ Search parens patriae at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/searchResultsForm.html
  77. ↑ idiōtēs (ἰδιώτης) from idios meaning as 'pertaining to one's self, one's own, belonging to one's self'. "Etymology. Idiot as a word derived from the Greek idiotes, idiotes ('a private citizen', 'individual'), from idios, idios ('private', 'one's own')." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Idiot#Etymology
  78. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_registration_in_ancient_Rome
  79. ↑ Contributions were freewill offerings not forced. Levites had no personal estate but held all things common.
  80. ↑ Living in the Time of Jesus of Nazareth by Peter Connolly. Published: Steimatzky 1983.
  81. ↑ Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21) was a Roman aristocrat mentioned in Res Gestae - The Deeds of Augustus by Augustus placing him as consul as early as 12 B.C.. Caesar's son Gaius Caesar was sent to administer Syria as an Imperial Legate in 1 B.C. and the Roman historian Tacitus Annals mentions in Book 3 Chapter 48 that Quirinius was an advisor to Gaius around 1 A.D Quirinius was later the governor of Syria during another census.
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