Talk:Tens

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Are there similar structures for Saxon society?...

In England

– The “titheingman” served ten families

– The “hundredsman” served ten tithingmen

– The “eolderman” (alderman) served ten hundrendsmen

Irish society revolved around the túath

Germanic tribes had “tehuntha”

Latins and pre-imperial Rome had

– Decānus (deacon) – dean or doge meant “servant of ten”

– Decurion served ten deans

– Centurion served ten decurions

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In "The World Under God’s Law, The Church Under God’s Law", Professor Rushdoony, (Dr. R.J.) describe the congregations Paul was setting up, "To this day, at least among the Jews, all it takes to form a synagog is ten elders! Ten men, rather. They constitute enough for one ruler, and without any rabbii called they constitute a synagog and the elder who was chosen by the ten heads of household conduct the services. That’s the way it was. "

"The apostles as they went out established, Paul for example, church after church in one place after another and he appointed and ordained elders, and he moved on. Did the services stop when left? No, they continued. The elder carried on the services, or the elders, if there were twenty families, there would be two elders; thirty families, three elders. Then these elders who would be trained by the apostles, Peter or Paul, whoever went out, would then carry on services around so that their work would be extended. And this is how the missionary work of the church went on. You will recall from the book of Acts that the apostles hit the cities, they established churches there. Those churches, the elders thereof, would go out into the surrounding countryside to the smaller communities and villages and establish congregations there. [0:11:46]"

The pattern is true but the use of the term elder is incorrect. While elders were appointed to serve the people it is not an office of the Church See Elder

Ruth 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

There is no difference in the canons of Christ’s kingdom “at hand” and the Kingdom of God that Moses tried to teach the people. The Levites were servants of the congregations of men. They belonged to God as his bondservants with no inheritance. Each one served ten families, who chose them as ministers, and to whom were tithed in accordance to their service.

The Church called out by Christ did the same as that earlier Church in the wilderness called out by Moses. They taught a kingdom of God organized by congregation of tens.

“And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)” Acts 1:15

Here, 12 apostles and 120 families were the beginning foundation of the Christian Church. The apostles were bondservants appointed by Christ to minister to the congregation of the people. In order to discern exactly how all this worked together for good, we must explore those ancient times.

Even as late as the 9th and 10th century, among the Lombard kings there was something called Deans connected to ten families. The word originated from the Latin “decanus”, which was a military term of the Romans. Decurius was also used by early writers. This included the Greek deka and dekate, meaning ten or tithe.

The term was used to described those men performing functions of the secular clergy. This term was used by what we might call ministers of the early ecclesiastical Church. That clergy was much different in their position to authority and function than those now held in what we have come to believe is the Church. They held that office which included a position in their judicial system chosen from the bottom up. Some have tried to assert that a Dean was in authority over those ten families, but the terms used to describe the office clearly establish it as a subordinate position with respect and service to the people. It was a part of their system of governance, but its leaders were titular.

Terms like decurions signified those who served ten deans. As the network of tens, fifties, and hundreds grew, there was a need for assistance like the heralds of the kings and the singers and Nethinims of the Levites who performed important functions of keeping the people and ministers informed. The chore pisco pus was an assistant to the overseer or Bishop to keep the communion between the congregation effectual. Over the centuries, this special communications officer for the government of the people was degenerated into the director of the choir.

The communion of the first-century Church was substantive, filling the true physical and spiritual needs of the people. Those who received Christ’s baptism were cast out of one system of authoritarian government of the Pharisees and entered a government of faith, hope, and charity under the perfect law of liberty. Christians depended upon the freewill charity of each other, not the entitlements of Rome or the synagogue of Satan.

“Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.” 1 Corinthians 10:21

According to Garcillasso de Vega an ancient Inca historian, Peru was divided into small districts containing ten families each which registered under a magistrate who had authority to decide little differences and punish petty crimes. Five of these groups of tens composed a higher class or fifty families and two of these fifties composed a hundred. Finally, ten hundreds composed a larger group of a thousand families. Moses did something similar but without centralizing power over the people that might subjugate them.

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Like any good capitalist grey squirrel, I can go out in the woods and collect nuts for the winter and bring them back to my borough. The pile of nuts is an extension of my labor spent over the summer so that I and my family will not starve.

If red squirrels try to come in and grab my nuts for themselves after I spent all summer gathering them for winter that would not be "proper or right". That would be a violation of my "property rights".

I do not need a government to protect my property.

But if there are a lot of "red comrade squirrels" I may call my brother squirrels and we may defend our nuts from the red menace.

We are still anarchist and capitalist squirrels because we have no rulers but only brothers.

There have been lots of governments without rulers but it takes a special kind of squirrel. They have to care about their neighbor's nuts as much as they care about their own. http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Tens

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