Acts 10 verse 36

Acts 10 verse 36

(36)   The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)

(37)   That word, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

(38)   How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went around doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.    (KJV)

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(36)   The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, this One is lord of all-----

(37)   ----you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed------

(38)   Jesus, the One, from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went through doing good, and healing all those having been oppressed by the Devil, because God was with Him.    (IB)

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Retranslation (verse 36 only):  The divine Principle that God is All and there is none else, and all the conclusions deduced from this Divine Premise, God sent to the children of Israel, the children of Jacob, who fight and obtain victory over their false “selves” and stand face-to-face with God. This divine Principle: God is All, is sent to these children to bring them Divine Logic, a Science of God, to show them the good news of atonement, at-one-ment, Unity with God, and this Science, from beginning to end, from one side to the other,----- piercing completely through the veil beyond matter,-----is shown by and passes to them through the hands of Christ Jesus. This Unity of God and Man is supreme in the All.

Retranslation (verse 37 only):  (This blog got too long. See the next blog.)

Retranslation (verse 38 only):  (See the next blog.)

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NOTE on the form of reasoning called a “syllogism”

Word is synonymous with systematic discourse or reasoning. When we reason things out, we are understanding connections between ideas. Premises are ideas that we have proven or admit are true. From these foundational ideas, we draw our conclusions. We know that certain consequences follow logically from basic premises. For example, if our major premise is “It is wintertime,” and our minor premise is “It is cold outside in the wintertime;” then our conclusion will be “Therefore, if I go outside, I will be cold.” Mary Baker Eddy uses this form of reasoning called a syllogism. Here’s some examples:

  

“---, since you admit that God is omnipotent; for from this premise it follows that good and its sweet concords have all-power.”  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p.130:13

God is omnipotent (Premise #1)

[God is good] (Premise #2)

Therefore, good is all powerful. (Conclusion)

“There is no life, truth, intelligence nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.”  p. 468:9.

This one is full of syllogisms. I’ve picked just a few.

God and God’s manifestation are All (Premise #1)

God is Spirit (infinite)  (Premise #2)

Therefore all is Spirit. (positive conclusion)

Therefore matter (finite) is unreal (negative conclusion)

Therefore man is not material (negative conclusion)

Therefore man is spiritual (positive conclusion)

Note: There is no logical room for an opposing premise such as “matter is all in this small part of the galaxy.” The “All-ness of God, Spirit, precludes even the possibility of this proposition. The thing about opposites is: if one is true, the other must be false.

“If both the major and minor propositions of a syllogism are correct, the conclusion, if properly drawn, cannot be false. So in Christian Science there are no discords nor contradictions, because its logic is as harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syllogism or of a properly computed sum in arithmetic. Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion.”  p.128:31.

“The Scriptures name God as good, and the Saxon term for God is also good. From this premise comes the logical conclusion that God is naturally and divinely infinite good. How, then, can this conclusion change, or be changed, to mean that good is evil, or the creator of evil? What can there be besides infinity? Nothing! Therefore the Science of good calls evil nothing. In divine Science the terms God and good, as Spirit, are synonymous. That God, good, creates evil, ---- or that Spirit creates its opposite, named matter, --- are conclusions that destroy their premise, and prove themselves invalid. Here is where Christian Science sticks to its text, and other systems of religion abandon their own logic. Here also is found the pith of the basal statement, the cardinal point in Christian Science, that matter and evil are unreal. Mortals accept natural science, wherein no species ever produces its opposite. Then why not accept divine Science on this ground? since the Scriptures maintain this fact by parable and proof, asking, “Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?”  (Emphasis added.) Miscellaneous Writings, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 26:28.

“Our theories are based on finite premises, which cannot penetrate beyond matter.” (Emphasis added.) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 312:23.

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THE WORD 3004 lego, a primary verb; properly to “lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely; and 2980 means an extended or random harangue]); by implication to mean:----ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say (on), saying, shew, speak, tell, utter.

System (Origins Dict.)[See STAND. Gr. histanai, to cause to stand (hence to weigh), has derivative histos, a loom; Prefix-compounds include sunistanai, to stand, hence to place together (sun- , with), whence sustema, a placing together, hence a number of things placed together, whence LL. systema, whence E system.]

systematic (1828 Dict. def.):

1. Pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaption or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.
2. Proceeding according to system or regular method; as, a systematic writer.

regular (ibid.): [L. regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as, a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice or law of medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.
2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.
3. In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle. Regular figures of more than three sides are usually called regular polygons.
4. Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.
5. Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.
6. Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.
7. Belonging to a monastic order; as regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy.

method (ibid.): [Gr. methodos, meta, above, and hodos, way, road, hence a journey.]

1. A suitable and convenient arrangement of things, proceedings or ideas; the natural or regular disposition of separate things or parts; convenient order for transacting business, or for comprehending any complicated subject. Without method, business of any kind will fall into confusion. To carry on farming to advantage, to keep accounts correctly, method is indispensable.
2. Way; manner.
3. Classification; arrangement of natural bodies according to their common characteristics.

methodical (ibid.) Arranged in convenient order; disposed in a just and natural manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical operations; as a methodical arrangement of parts of a discourse or of arguments; a methodical treatise; methodical accounts.

discourse (Origins Dict.) See COURSE. A course derives from F. cours, course of, e.g., streams of stars, itself from L. cursus (gen. -us), a running, a place for running, from curs-, stem of cursus, past participle of currerre (verb cur-), to run, with influence from F. course, a running, a race, itself from Italian corsa, from correre, to run, from L. currer, which is of Celtic and Germaic stock: compare the Celtic CAR and the Germanic HORSE; L. currere has a present participle currens, when the E. current, and a derivative currus, E. car, with diminutive curriculum, a chariot, a racecourse, a race, a running, hence generally a course. The L. compounds of currere, to run appear in easily recognizable dress in the remaining E. words:

concurrere, to run together, whence E. concurrent;

decurrere, to descend at a run, to run down, whence E. decurrent;

discurrere, to run to and fro, whence discourse or discursive;

incurrere, to run onto or against, when E. ‘to incure;’

ocurrere, to run in front of, present oneself to, whence ‘to occur;’

recurrere, to return at a run, to run back, also to run again, whence ‘to recur;’

succerrer, to run under or towards, hence to run to the help of, whence E. succo(u)r.

discourse n. (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. The act of the understanding, by which it passes from premises to consequences; the act which connects propositions, and deduces conclusions from them.
2. Literally, a running over a subject in speech; hence, a communication of thoughts by words.
3. Effusion of language; speech.
4. A written treatise; a formal dissertation; as the discourse of Plutarch on garrulity; of Cicero on old age.
5. A sermon, uttered or written. We say, an extemporaneous discourse, or a written discourse.

discourse v.i. (ibid.)

1. To talk; to converse; but it expresses rather more formality than talk. He discoursed with us an hour on the events of the war. We discoursed together on our mutual concerns.
2. To communicate through thoughts or ideas in a formal manner; to treat upon in a solemn, set manner; as, to discourse on the properties of the circle; the preacher discoursed on the nature and effects of faith.
3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.

“Reason is the most active human faculty. Let that inform the sentiments and awaken the man’s dormant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of the human sense and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will be saved, but is saved.”  (Emphasis added.) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 327:29

reason (Origins Dict.): L. ratus, past particle of reri, to count, calculate, reckon, hence to think. In L. ratus acquires the noun ratio, a counting, an account, hence a manner, or the faculty, of counting, hence judgment, reason, method, form.

reason v.i. (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. To exercise the faculty of reason; to deduce inferences justly from premises. Brutes do not reason; children reason imperfectly.
2. To argue; to infer conclusions from premises, or to deduce new or unknown propositions from previous propositions which are known or evident. To reason justly is to infer from propositions which are know, admitted or evident, the conclusions which are natural, or which necessarily result from them. Men may reason within themselves; they may reason before a court or legislature; they may reason wrong as well as right.
3. To debate; to confer or inquire by discussion or mutual communication of thoughts, arguments or reasons. “And they reasoned among themselves.” Matt. xvi.
4. To reason with, to argue with; to endeavor to inform, convince or persuade by argument. Reason with a profligate son, and if possible, persuade him of his errors.
5. To discourse; to talk; to take or give an account. “Stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord.” 1 Sam. xii.

premise n. (ibid.) A first or antecedent proposition.

proposition n. (ibid.) In logic, one of the three parts of a regular argument.

antecedent n. (ibid.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding.

consequence n. (ibid.): [L. consequentia, con and sequor, to follow. See SEEK.]

1. That which follows from any act, cause, principle, or series of actions. Hence, an event or effect produced by some preceding act or cause.  “Shun the bitter consequence, for the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.”  Milton.
2. In logic, a proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; the conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference; deduction. Every rational being is accountable to his maker; man is a rational being; the consequence then must be, that man is accountable to his maker.
3. Connection of cause and effect; consecution. 

Logic (Origins Dict.): See LEGEND. L. legere (stem and root leg-), to gather (esp. fruit), hence to collect, to assemble, hence to choose, hence----(compare E. gather) to form an impression (that) loosely to deduce----to read, perhaps via such phrases as legere oculis, to assemble (the alphabetical letters) with the eyes, and scriptum legere, to gather or collect as written, to find written. Greek legein (stem and root leg-), to enumerate or reckon, to say (by choosing one’s words),-----legere has gerundive legendus (cf. gerund legendum), fit, or needing, to be read, whence via the neutral plural legenda apprehended as the noun ‘things to be read.’ ML legenda, a life-story, the narrative of an important event.

Akin to L. legere, to gather, to read, is Gr. legein, to gather, hence to count, hence to recount, hence to say or speak, with its complementary LOGOS [emphasis added], which, exhibiting the characteristic Gr alternation between -e- vowels and -o- nouns, means a counting, a reckoning----proportion---explanation, statement----rule or principle---a reason, reasoning, reason----continuous statement, a narrative, a story----a speech----verbal expression (often a sentence, a saying, a phrase, rarely a word)----a discourse or a disquisition.

Greek logos (stem log-) has derivative logia, sayings (of e.g. Christ), properly the neutral plural of adj. logios, and the more important adj. logikos, E. logic.

logic n. (1828 Dict. def.): The art of thinking and reasoning justly. “Logic is the art of using reason well in our inquiries after truth, and the communication of it to others.” Watts.  “Correct reasoning implies correct thinking and legitimate inferences from premises, which are principles assumed or admitted to be just. Logic then includes the art of thinking, as well as the art of reasoning.”  Watts.

deduction n. (ibid.) That which is drawn from premises; fact; opinion, or hypothesis, collected from principles or facts stated, or established data; inference; consequence drawn; conclusion; as, this opinion is a fair deduction from the principles you have advanced.

inference n. (ibid.) A truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion. Inferences result from reasoning, as when the mind perceives such a connection between ideas, as that, if certain propositions called premises are true, the conclusions or propositions deduced from them must also be true.

conclusion n. (ibid.)

1. End; close; the last part; as the conclusion of an address.
2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final result. “Let us hear the conclusion of the who matter; fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.” Eccles. xii. 
3. Determination; final decision.
4. Consequence; inference; that which is collected or drawn from premises; particular deduction from propositions, facts, experience, or reasoning.

syllogism n. (ibid.): A form of reasoning or argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the two first are called premises, and the last the conclusion. In this argument, the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises, so that if the two first propositions are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to a demonstration. Thus,

A plant has not the power of locomotion (Premise #1, major)

An oak is a plant (Premise #2, minor)

Therefore, an oak has not the power of locomotion (Conclusion)

These propositions are denominated the major, the minor and the conclusion.

which 3739

sent 649 apostello, from 575 and 4724; set apart, i.e. (by implication) to send out (properly on a mission) literally or figuratively:----put in, send (away, forth, out), set [at liberty].

sons 5207

Israel 2474 2474 of Hebrew origin [H3478]; Israel (i.e. Jisrael). the adopted name of Jacob, including his descendants (lit. or fig.):------Israel.

H3478 yisrael, from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolic name for Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:----Israel.

H8280 sara, a primitive root; to prevail:-----have power, have power as a prince.

H410 el, shortened from 352; strength; as adjective mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any diety):----God, god, goodly, great, idol, might, mighty one, power, strong. Compare name in “-el”

H352 ayil, from the same as H193; properly strength; hence anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:-----mighty, mighty man, lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

H193 ul, from an unused root meaning to twist, i.e. (by implication) be strong; the body (as being rolled together); also powerful:-----mighty, strength.

preaching the gospel 2097  euangelizo, from 2095 and 32; to announce good news (“evangelize”) especially the gospel:----declare, bring (declare, show) glad (good) tidings, preach (the gospel).

peace 1515 eirene, probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication prosperity:-----one, peace, quietness, rest, set at one again.

join (1828 Dict. def.) [L jugum, yoke.]

1.To set or bring one thing in contiguity with another.

1. To couple; to connect; to combine; as, to join ideas.
2. To unite in league or marriage. “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matt. xix.
3. To associate. To near and join thyself to this chariot.” Acts viii.
4. To unite in any act.
5. To unite in concord. “But that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.” 1 Cor. i.

In general, join signifies to unite two entire things without breach or intermixture by contact or contiguity, either temporary or permanent. It differs from connect, which signifies properly to unite by an intermediate substance. But join, unite, and connect are often used synonymously.

prosperity (Origins Dict.): L. spere, to hope; adj. L. prosper, arriving opportunely, faring well, from por spere, conforming to, answering one’s hope.

through 1223 dia, a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal or occasional). In compounds it retains the same general import:----after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) . . .fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, forsake, that, thereby, therefore, though, through, throughout, to wherefore, with, within.

through  prep. (1828 Dict. def.): [Sax. thurh; D. door; G. durch; W. trwy or trw, whence trwyaw, to pervade; Ir. treoghdham, Gaelic, treaghaim, to pierce or bore.]

1. From end to end, or from side to side; from one surface or limit to the opposite; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
2. Noting passage; as, to pass through a gate or avenue.
3. By transmission, noting the means of conveyance. “Through these hands this science has passed with great applause.”  Temple.  “Material things are presented only through their senses.”  Cheyne.
4. By means of; by the agency of; noting instrumentality. This signification is a derivative of the last. “Through the scent of water it will bud.”  Job xiv.  “Some through ambition, or through thirst of gold, have slain their brothers, and their country sold.”  Dryden.

Jesus 2424

Christ 5547

this One 3778 houtos, including nominative masculine plural houtoi, nominative feminine singular haute, and nominative feminine plural hautai, from the article 3588 and 846; the he (she or it), i.e. this or that (often with article repeated):---he (it was, that), hereof, it, she, such as, the same, these, they, this (man, same, woman), which, who.

3588 ho, including the feminine he, and the neuter, to, to all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):----the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.

is 2076 esti, third person singular present indicative of 1510; he (she or it) is; also (with neuter plural) they are:-----are, be, belong, call, can, cannot, come, consisteth, dure for awhile, follow, have, (that) is (to say), make meaneth, must needs, profit, remaineth, wrestle.

Lord 2962 kyrios, from kyros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication Mister (as a respectful title):-----God, Lord, master, Sir.

all 3956 pas, including all forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole:----all (manner of, means), always, any (one), daily, ever, every (one, was), as many as, no, nothing, thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever