Sha’ul Repeatedly Quotes False Elohim Written of by Greek Pagans
‘And he said, “Who are You, Master?” And the Master said, “I am יהושע, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.”’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 9:5
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.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 had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.’’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 26:14
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.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 are, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ ”’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 17:28
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.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 in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.’
- Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 13:12
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1CO.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)
‘Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.”’
- Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 15:33
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1CO.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 them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, in order for them to be sound in the belief,’
- Titos (Titus) 1:12-13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/TIT.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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