Pa’al Repeatedly Quotes False Elohiym Written of by Greek Pagans
“And he said, Who are you, Adonai? And Yahuah said, I am Yahusha whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.”
- Ma’asiym (Acts) 9:5
“Better to yield him prayer and sacrifice than kick against the pricks, since Dionyse is god, and thou but mortal.”
“Bacchae” a play by Euripides
(4th-century BC Greek playwrite)
[In this writing, the false elohim, Dionysus, is speaking]
“And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Ivriyt tongue, “Pa’al, Pa’al, why do you persecute me? it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.””
- Ma’asiym (Acts) 26:14
“Better to yield him prayer and sacrifice than kick against the pricks, since Dionyse is god, and thou but mortal.”
“Bacchae” a play by Euripides
(4th-century BC Greek playwrite)
[In this writing, the false elohim, Dionysus, is speaking]
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”
- Ma’asiym (Acts) 17:28
“They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one. The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever, For in thee we live and move and have our being.”
“Cretica” a poem by Epimenides
(6th-century BC Greek philosopher, poet and diviner)
[In this writing, the character, Minos, is speaking to the false elohim, Zeus]
“From Zeus let us begin, whom we men never allow to be unnamed; full of Zeus are all the streets and all the market-places of people; full is the sea and the harbors; we all have need of Zeus, in everything. For we are also his offspring; and, as he is benevolent, he gives favorable [signs] to men and rouses people to work, reminding them of their livelihood..”
“Phaenomena” a poem by Aratus
(3rd-century BC Greek poet)
[In this writing, the false elohim, Zeus, is being addressed]
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
- Qorintiym Ri’shon (1 Corinthians) 13:12
“I am very far from admitting that he who contemplates existences through the medium of thought, sees them only through a glass, darkly, any more than he would see them in their working effects.”
“Phaedo” a play by Plato
(3rd-century BC Greek philosopher and playwrite)
“Be not deceived: evil communication corrupts good habits.”
- Qorintiym Ri’shon (1 Corinthians) 15:33
“Loose-brideled’? Pest! Methinks, thought I have suffered this, that none the less I’d now be glad to have her. Sing to me, goddess, sing of such an one as she: audacious, beautiful, and plausible withal; she does you wrongs; she locks her door; keeps asking you for gifts; she loveth none, but ever makes pretense. Communion with the bad corrupts good character.”
“Thais” a play by Menander
(2nd Century BC Greek philosopher)
[In this writing, the famous Greek prostitute, Thais, is being addressed]
“One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;”
- Titus (Titus) 1:12-13
“They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one. The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever, For in thee we live and move and have our being.”
“Cretica” a poem by Epimenides
(6th-century BC Greek philosopher, poet and diviner)
[In this writing, the character, Minos, is speaking to the false elohim, Zeus]
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