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| Quote: | 2. SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT. "Pharmakeia."
"Pharmakon," was a drug
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"pharmakeia," the use of drugs.
The noun "pharmakeia" occurs in Gal.5v20. Rev.9v21. 18v23.. "Sorcerer," "pharmakus," occurs in Rev.21v8.; and "pharmakos," in Rev.22v15.. "Mageia," "sorceries," in Acts.8v11. and "mageuo," "sorcery," in Act8v9.. "Magos," is translated as "sorcerer" in Acts.13v6,8.; and the plural "magi," as "wise men" in Mt.2v1,7,16.
Sorcery and witchcraft in Paul's time were very similar to their modern equivalents; images of people were made and destroyed, and curses were put upon people by invoking the powers of darkness.
In Paul's time, magic, divination, astrology and the occult powers mentioned in Deut.18v10-22., were commonly practised. People were full of fear, and used amulets and charms in an effort to protect themselves from witchcraft, sorcery, magical spells and the evil eye.
The value of the books on magic burned in the revival at Corinth was about £50,000, which shows how rife magical practices were in Paul's time. Acts.19v19. These occult practices were one of the main obstacles to the spread of the Gospel in the early Church, and this is why miracles were needed to confirm the truth of the Gospel. Philip and Paul compelled the Gentiles to believe in Jesus, by doing greater miracles than the servants of Satan. Acts.8v4-13. 13v6-12. 18v11-20. Rom.15v18-21. |
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| Quote: | A little background on "Pharmakeia" which is also a feminine noun that can be used collectively, it references the herbalist of the time who were almost always female. It was one of the few businesses available to single women, herbalism was complex so there was an aura of secrecy to it. They also were fond of saying incantations or using symbolic items etc to increase the "mystery" around their practice. It gave them both power and prestige, it would have also increased their incomes and perhaps the more mystical it appeared the greater price people were willing to pay for their "potions". These women challenged the authority structure of both Paul's church and the society of the time in general. The ability to heal, poison, abort fetuses, etc. gave them an incredible amount of power and would have created a diversion from God and Christianity. So, you have that aspect of that term used here.
Later, there are frequent references in church writings (not scripture) referring to abortionist using the term "pharmakeia". Outside of the church Plutarch uses the term pharmakeia in reference to contraception and abortion.
Clement of Alexandria identifies pharmakeia as an abortifacent.
An early church council in the capital of Galatia referenced adulterous woman who who avail themselves to pharmakeia for abortion.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
an adjective signifying "devoted to magical arts," is used as a noun, "a sorcerer," especially one who uses drugs, potions, spells, enchantments, Rev. 21:8, in the best texts (some have pharmakeus), and Rev. 22:15.
Plato writes of Pharmakeia the Naias Nymphe of a poisonous spring near Athens, Orithyia is swept away by Boreas while she was playing with Pharmacia. Later Socrates compares the written texts Phaedrus has brought along to pharmakon, he describes it as both a cure and poison.
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| Quote: | | In the New Testament, sorcery is listed as a work of the flesh, which, if practiced, will keep a soul out of heaven (Galatians 5:20). Sorcery is from the Greek word pharmakeia. According to the Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament, by Rienecker and Rogers, pharmakeia means "the use of medicine or drugs, the use of drugs for magical purposes, magic, sorcery" (517). In his Greek-English Lexicon, J.H. Thayer says it means "sorcery, magical arts" (649). In his Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, W.E. Vine says pharmakeia "primarily signified the use of medicine, drugs, spells; then, poisoning; then, sorcery" (1074-1075). The term pharmakeia is a broad one that encompasses the use of recreational and illegal drugs, as well as magic, witchcraft, voodoo, superstition, astrology, fortune telling, horoscopes, sorcery and the like (many of these terms overlap). |
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| Quote: | Further evidence is found in the Didache, also called the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, written about the year 80 A.D. This book was the Church's first manual of morals, liturgical norms and doctrine. In the first section? two ways are proposed: the way of life and the way of death. In following the way of life, the <Didache> exhorts, "
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not seduce boys.
You shall not commit fornication.
You shall not steal.
You shall not practice magic.
You shall not use potions.
You shall not procure abortion, nor destroy a new-born child.
You shall not covet your neighbor's goods...."
Again, scholars link such phrases as "practice magic" and "use potions" with artificial birth control.
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"And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even EXPOSE THEM."
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| Quote: | | It should be noted that prescription drugs do not heal, and in most cases simply mask the problem prolonging agony, never approaching the root cause of the disease. The sad fact is, most doctors today do not attempt to heal their patients, instead they prescribe drugs for pain management, keeping patients on a never ending drug merry-go-round. Toxic drug ingredients build up within the body and eventually cause damage to vital organs which leads to death. Basically, taking drugs = shorter lifespan. |
| Quote: | According to the Washington Post on November 30, 1999 an article from Rick Weiss states:
| Quote: | | As many as 98,000 Americans die unnecessarily every year from medical mistakes made by physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals....."These stunningly high rates of medical errors, resulting in deaths, permanent disability and unnecessary suffering, are simply unacceptable in a medical system that promises first to "do no harm", said William C. Richardson, President of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and chairman of the expert committee that compiled the blunt 223-page report. |
In the USA Today December 4, 1999
Headline: Clinton orders task force today to find new ways to reduce deaths caused by medical mistakes.
WASHINGTON - President Clinton and members of Congress acting on a recommendation of Institute of Medicine form a task force to find out why 98,000 Americans are killed by medical mistakes. The report stated that more people are killed by medical mistakes than accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. Mistakes include illegible prescriptions, nurses delivering the wrong doses and doctors misinterpreting symptoms. [End]
USA TODAY
FDA planning new ways to improve drug safety
by Lauren Neergaard - Associated Press
An estimated two million Americans are hospitalized annually from drug side effects, and 100,000 die.
| Quote: | WASHINGTON - New drugs are tested only a few hundred to a few thousand times before they are sold to millions, meaning rare side effects that don't show up in small clinical trials can wind up hurting hundreds of people. But doctors aren't required to report side effects to the FDA, which has only about 80 employees to monitor the more than 3000 prescription drugs sold... The FDA's approval process isn't strict enough. The agency has had to ban five drugs since September 1997; in the past decade, it banned just six others...
Still, experts say most side effect-caused deaths are preventable. Doctors may prescribe the wrong drug - sometimes confusing drugs with similar names - or wrong dose. The medicine may interact dangerously with another drug the patient takes... Doctors may not even know all the side effects. Time-strapped physicians may not fully read FDA-approved prescription labels, and it's hard to remember warnings for so many drugs. |
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| Quote: | No Pain, No Gain
Maturing in life requires experiences which we do not always find pleasant. The current culture, however, considers it their right to find some mind altering drug that will take the pain away. Relief is just a minute away with the bottle, pill, white powder or smoke. That which we depend upon becomes our master. The desire to escape all unpleasantness results in a personality that is weak and faltering and dependent on something other than Christ for assistance. If we say we love God but depend on drugs for our emotional well-being, we are hypocritical. Whether a drug is deemed legal or illegal is irrelevant. Taking a drug to alter one’s consciousness is a form of sorcery. However, let us distinguish drugs that cause euphoria and diminish a person’s capacity to think realistically, from drugs that are used for legitimate medicinal purposes. There are many medicines that are a blessing to our world. For instance, heart medicines have prolonged the lives of many.
Drugs that are the equivalent to sorcery are drugs that are taken with the desire to be free of the burden of living – to find "relief" from the cares and pressures of the day. Relief should instead be found through prayer and praise and the study of the Word of God. This will move the Christian closer to God, rather than causing dependence on an herb or chemical. We are living a culture that in inculcated with drugs. America is a "drug" culture, even as it is a "sex" culture. |
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| Quote: | Does Galatians 5:20 Condemn the Use of All Drugs?
The term could signify a drug.
Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, tells of a man named Arcesilaus, who “fell sick,” and while “under the influence of a drug [pharmakon] which he had taken, was strangled” by one of his own brothers (IV.160).
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| Quote: | The Greek New Testament and Septuagint on Witchcraft
Witchcraft occurs only once in the King James New Testament and sorcery twice--Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21 and 18:23. The word in the Greek New Testament in all three cases is pharmakeia, derived from the word pharmakon ("drug"), the source of the English word pharmacy and its cognates. The standard koiné Greek-English Lexicon translates the word as "sorcery" or "magic," but its cognate "sorcerer" (pharmakous) used in Revelation 21:8 and 22:15 is translated "mixer of poisons" as well as "magician." The root of both words, pharmakon, literally means "poison" or "drug."1
A few key Old Testament passages about witches which are often associated with the puritans such as Exodus 22:18 ("Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"--KJV) use pharmakous in the Septuagint--the word translated sorcerer in Revelation 21:8 and 22:15.2 The Greek New Testament and the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures use different words such as mageia ("magic") when other types of occult practices like calling on spirits or using curses are meant. In English such words are usually translated "wizard," "necromancer," or some other appropriate word or phrase.2 Because of the Greek word chosen in each case, it appears that the New Testament authors and Septuagint translators understood the idea of witchcraft in terms of the use of drugs or poisons. |
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| Quote: | II. PHARMAKEIA (witchcraft, sorcery, magic)
A. INFORMATION RELATED TO THIS WORD...
1. PHARMAKEIA is found to be used in three ways
a. Medically, to the use of drugs with no bad meaning at all
b. The misuse of drugs so as to poison, not cure
c. The practice of sorcery and witchcraft, which often used
drugs to cast spells and alter the behavior of others
2. The practice of witchcraft and sorcery is strongly condemned
in the Bible
a. In the Old Testament - Exo 22:18
b. In the New Testament - Re 21:8
3. In Ac 19:18-20, we find a remarkable example of repentance
related to the practice of magic
B. EXAMPLES OF THIS SIN TODAY...
1. There is an increasing number of religions based upon the
occult, and that make use of drugs in their religion
2. The "recreational" use of drugs also falls into this
category...
a. Remember that altering the behavior of others through such
drugs was a basic function of sorcery and witchcraft
b. What difference is there between using drugs to alter
others' behavior, and your own?
c. This is not to discount the proper medicinal use of drugs
d. But just as the Bible condemns drunkenness, which is an
altered state brought on by alcohol (a drug), so it would
seem to condemn similar use of other drugs
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| The term pharmakeia is a broad one that encompasses the use of recreational and illegal drugs, as well as magic, witchcraft, voodoo, superstition, astrology, fortune telling, horoscopes, sorcery and the like (many of these terms overlap). |
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Webmaster,
All you have done thus far is prove that which I already knew...
That there are many people who think they know what withccraft is
that haven't got a clue...
And when you hve a word that has been transliterated into so many
differant things you have to look at the context to determine the meaning.
In any cases the basic premise you began this thread with remains void..
even if pharmaceuticals were witchcraft.. and they are not....
it would be the people compounding the chemicals that are involved....
Unless, of course, you would consider everyone who takes drugs to be
involved in witchcraft...
If this is the case... enjoy your next caffienated beverage....
or perhaps your next antihistamine... or aspirin....
I am sincerely troubled by your line of reasoning.....
His servant,
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| I am curious Mark are you an Apostle? Have you seen Jesus Christ our Lord? It was Paul who was an Apostle that used the word pharmakeus / pharmakeia under the Power of the Holy Spirit for a reason. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. You are promoting un-righteousness! |
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Why don't you just accept that you're attempting to justify a nonsensical argument, web? Doctors are not practising witchcraft by prescribing medicine - if you think they are, then you're really on the wrong track.
I'm bowing out of this thread now - have better things to do with my time than read stuff like this. Life's too short.
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I surrender.. I will take them all one at a time...
*sigh*
I got other things to do.
| webmaster wrote: | | Quote: | 2. SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT. "Pharmakeia."
"Pharmakon," was a drug
and
"pharmakeia," the use of drugs.
The noun "pharmakeia" occurs in Gal.5v20. Rev.9v21. 18v23.. "Sorcerer," "pharmakus," occurs in Rev.21v8.; and "pharmakos," in Rev.22v15.. "Mageia," "sorceries," in Acts.8v11. and "mageuo," "sorcery," in Act8v9.. "Magos," is translated as "sorcerer" in Acts.13v6,8.; and the plural "magi," as "wise men" in Mt.2v1,7,16.
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you will note that in each of the translations the textual referances made
it inappropriate to equate it to drugs.
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Sorcery and witchcraft in Paul's time were very similar to their modern equivalents; images of people were made and destroyed, and curses were put upon people by invoking the powers of darkness.
In Paul's time, magic, divination, astrology and the occult powers mentioned in Deut.18v10-22., were commonly practised. People were full of fear, and used amulets and charms in an effort to protect themselves from witchcraft, sorcery, magical spells and the evil eye.
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remember this one.
| Quote: | | pharmakeia "primarily signified the use of medicine, drugs, spells; then, poisoning; then, sorcery" (1074-1075). The term pharmakeia is a broad one that encompasses the use of recreational and illegal drugs, as well as magic, witchcraft, voodoo, superstition, astrology, fortune telling, horoscopes, sorcery and the like (many of these terms overlap). |
http://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2004/jan/page8.htm |
which is why you look at the way in which the word is used to determine
meaning
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| webmaster wrote: | | Quote: | Further evidence is found in the Didache, also called the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, written about the year 80 A.D. This book was the Church's first manual of morals, liturgical norms and doctrine. In the first section? two ways are proposed: the way of life and the way of death. In following the way of life, the <Didache> exhorts, "
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not seduce boys.
You shall not commit fornication.
You shall not steal.
You shall not practice magic.
You shall not use potions.
You shall not procure abortion, nor destroy a new-born child.
You shall not covet your neighbor's goods...."
Again, scholars link such phrases as "practice magic" and "use potions" with artificial birth control.
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you skipped the fact that tehy seemed to have linked it with
murder... and adultery too... an oversite no doubt.
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| webmaster wrote: | I am curious Mark are you an Apostle?
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no. I am a follower of Jesus who uses his knowledge and God-given
intelligence though.
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Have you seen Jesus Christ our Lord? |
nope.. met Him though..
| Quote: | It was Paul who was an Apostle that used the word pharmakeus / pharmakeia under the Power of the Holy Spirit for a reason.
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exactly.. and He had it placed in the context He did to make it clear that
the meaning was magik
| Quote: | | All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. You are promoting un-righteousness! |
Then perhaps you should stop trying to twist scripture from its' true
and proper meaning.
What I am promoting is that you stop this foolishness of trying to say
that Dr's are into witchcraft.... for that is bearing false witness upon
many many people.
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One last item here for you Webmaster.
If medicine is witchcraft... why did Paul prescribe wine for Timothy's
ailment?
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Galatians 5:19-20
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, pharmakeia, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
19.
|5318| clearly revealed
|1161| Now
|2076| are
|3588| the
|2041| works
|3588| of the
|4561| flesh,
|3748| which
|2076| are:
|4202| sexual sin,
|0167| uncleanness,
|0766| lustfulness,
20.
|1495| idolatry,
|5331| pharmakeia,
|2189| hostilities,
|2054| fightings,
|2205| jealousies,
|2372| angers,
|2052| rivalries,
|1370| divisions,
|0139| heresies,
21.
|5355| envyings,
|3178| drunkennesses,
|2970| revellings,
|2532| and
|3664| similar things
|5125| to these,
|3739| which
|4302| I tell before
|5213| you,
|2531| as
|2532| also
|4280| I said previously,
|3754| that
|3588| those who
|5108| such things
|4238| are practicing
|9999| {the}
|0932| kingdom
|2316| of God
|3756| not
|2816| will inherit.
Revelation 9:20-21
And the rest of the men
which were not killed by these plagues
yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Neither repented they of
their murders,
nor of their pharmakeia,
nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts.
20.
|2532| And
|3588| the
|3062| rest
|0444| of men,
|3739| who
|3756| not
|0615| were killed
|1722| by
|4127| plagues
|5025| these,
|3756| not
|3340| change their hearts
|1537| of
|3588| the
|2041| works
|3588| of the
|5495| hands
|0846| of them,
|2443| that
|3361| not
|4352| they will worship
|1140| demons
|2532| and
|1497| idols
|5552| gold
|2532| and
|0693| silver
|2532| and
|5470| bronze
|2532| and
|3035| stone
|2532| and
|3585| wood,
|3739| which
|3777| neither
|0991| to see
|1410| are able,
|3777| nor to
|0191| hear,
|3777| nor to
|4043| walk.
21.
|2532| And
|3756| not
|3340| they did change their hearts
|1537| of
|3588| the
|5408| murders
|0846| of them
|3777| nor
|1537| of
|3588| the
|5331| pharmakeia
|0846| of them,
|3777| nor
|1537| of
|3588| the
|4202| sexual sins
|0846| of them
|3777| nor
|1537| of
|3588| the
|2809| thefts
|0846| of them.
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CHURCH FATHERS: The Didache
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html
Further evidence is found in the Didache, also called the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, written about the year 80 A.D.
This book was the Church's first manual of morals, liturgical norms and doctrine.
In the first section?
two ways are proposed:
the way of life
and the way of death.
In following the way of life,
the <Didache> exhorts, "
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not seduce boys.
You shall not commit fornication.
You shall not steal.
You shall not practice magic.
You shall not use potions.
You shall not procure abortion, nor destroy a new-born child.
You shall not covet your neighbor's goods...."
Again, scholars link such phrases as "practice magic" and "use potions" with artificial birth control. |
you skipped the fact that tehy seemed to have linked it with
murder... and adultery too... an oversite no doubt.
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The fact wasn't skipped neither was it an oversite, it backs up Galatians 5:19-20 & Revelation 9:20-21 which was written around the same time.
So pharmakeia has nothing to do with witchcraft(as we know it today) but does deals with exactly with what the word implies!
Strong's Number: 5332
Transliterated: pharmakeus
Phonetic: far-mak-yoos'
Text: from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician: --sorcerer.
Strong's Number: 5331
Transliterated: pharmakeia
Phonetic: far-mak-i'-ah
Text: from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively): --sorcery, witchcraft. |
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| wigginsmum wrote: | Why don't you just accept that you're attempting to justify a nonsensical argument, web? Doctors are not practising witchcraft by prescribing medicine - if you think they are, then you're really on the wrong track.
I'm bowing out of this thread now - have better things to do with my time than read stuff like this. Life's too short.
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Doctors who prescribes an addictive pain killer and gets the patient hooked is practicing pharmakeia!
People who take the pain pills and are addicted and know it are practicing pharmakeia!
People who smoke cigarettes are practicing pharmakeia!
The cigarette compaines who sells them are practicing pharmakeia!
People who are addicted to alcohol are practicing pharmakeia!
Drug dealers on the corner are practicing pharmakeia!
The Witch Doctors of old who mixed mercury into the medicine thinking it would cure but ended up killing 25% of the people in the village was practicing pharmakeia!
Doctors who perform an abortion are practicing pharmakeia!
| Quote: | The well-known Oath of Hippocrates (460-357 B.C.) includes a promise not to perform an abortion:
I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. . . . I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.(15) |
| Quote: | | The Didache maintained that there is a "great difference between these two ways." In expounding the second great commandment ("Love your neighbor as yourself") the author makes a list of "thou shalt not" statements. The list prohibits murder, adultery, sodomy, fornication, theft, the use of drugs (pharmakeia), infanticide, and abortion (2.2). The unborn child was considered a neighbor, against whom such things could not be done. Followers of the second way, the way of death, included those who practiced "medicine" (pharmakeia) and those who were "killers of the child, who abort the mold (plasma) of God." |
http://www.tesm.edu/pubs/writings/wrap36ac
Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine
http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/1.2.1.2.htm
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Practitioners were priests, and after 2000 BC, they were ruled by the strict laws included in the Code of Hammurabi listed below.
215 If a physician make a large incision with an operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor (over the eye) with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive ten shekels in money.
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216 If the patient be a freed man, he receives five shekels.
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217 If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.
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218 If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.
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219 If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.
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220 If he had opened a tumor with the operating knife, and put out his eye, he shall pay half his value.
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221 If a physician heal the broken bone or diseased soft part of a man, the patient shall pay the physician five shekels in money.
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222 If he were a freed man he shall pay three shekels.
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223 If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.
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224 If a veterinary surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee.
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225 If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value. |
Example of pharmakeia!
Mercury is extremely toxic and its curative effect is unproven!
The usefulness of mercury is limited by its poisonous nature and scarcity.
| Quote: | | Mercury was among the first metals known, and its compounds have been used throughout history. Archaeologists found mercury in an Egyptian tomb dating from 1500 BC. The Egyptians and the Chinese may have been using cinnabar as a red pigment for centuries before the birth of Christ. In many civilizations mercury was used to placate or chase away evil spirits. The alchemists thought that mercury, which they associated with the planet Mercury, had mystical properties and used it in their attempts to transmute base metals into gold. The Greeks knew of mercury and used it as a medicine. Mercury and mercury compounds were used from about the 15th century to the mid 20th century to cure syphilis. Because mercury is extremely toxic and its curative effect is unproven, other syphilis medicines are now used. The usefulness of mercury is limited by its poisonous nature and scarcity. |
http://www.herbs2000.com/homeopathy/merc.htm
http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/m/me/mercury__element__1.html |
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So pharmakeia has nothing to do with witchcraft but does deals with exactly with what the word implies!
Witchcraft falls under idolatry and sorcery!
Wicca, the religion
http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm
THE INNER SANCTUM OF WICCA & WITCHCRAFT
http://www.witchway.net/
Idolatry
Strong's Number: 1495
Transliterated: eidololatreia
Phonetic: i-do-lol-at-ri'-ah
Text: from 1497 and 2999; image-worship (literally or figuratively): --idolatry.
Sorcery
Strong's Number: 3095
Transliterated: mageia
Phonetic: mag-i'-ah
Text: from 3096; "magic": --sorcery.
Strong's Number: 3096
Transliterated: mageuo
Phonetic: mag-yoo'-o
Text: from 3097; to practice magic: --use sorcery.
Strong's Number: 3097
Transliterated: magos
Phonetic: mag'-os
Text: of foreign origin [7248]; a Magian, i.e. Oriental scientist; by implication a magician: --sorcerer, wise man.
Acts 8:9-11
9.
|0435| a man
|1161| And
|5100| certain
|3686| by name
|4613| Simon
|4391| had long been
|1722| in
|3588| the
|4172| city
|3096| conjuring(sorcery)
|2532| and
|1839| amazing
|3588| the
|1484| nation
|4540| of Samaria,
|3004| saying
|1511| to be
|5100| someone
|1438| himself
|3173| great,
10.
|3739| to whom
|4337| paid attention to
|3956| all
|0575| from
|3398| unimportant
|2193| to
|3173| important,
|3004| saying,
|3778| This one
|2076| is
|3588| the
|1411| power
|3588| of
|2316| God
|3173| great!
11.
|4337| they were heeding
|1161| And
|0846| him,
|1223| because
|2425| for a long
|5550| time
|3588| with the
|3095| conjuring(sorcery)
|9999| {he}
|1839| had amazed
|0846| them. |
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But I know one thing for sure, the truth revealed here has shown me that smoking cigarettes is a sin! With that I shall stop!
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