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On the ffoe ^ rfh Vo tal and Instrumen ta l Music in Public Worship . 4 $ t
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rapeWte ^ says , " He who preside ^ after having explained some < U | Hf cult > p 8 b *» g ^ 8 m tha scripture ^ ris « & and sihgs a hymn of praise , which he iias himself composed , op'whijofe . he has taken from their ancient poets . Those who follow hira ^ el £ Orsir ) g < &ther songs in their ^
turny aiid according to their rank , all the / r # st of the assembly listen , ing- ia ^ fprofound silence , except that \ vben the hymn is finishing , they join altogether , both men and worueri ' , to sing the amens and hallelujahs . " Philo men . ti # ns also another method of singm # practised by this sect . " After
sapper their sacred songs began , Th ^ yf , all rose up , and selected two choksv one q ( men and another of v ^ oraen ; an 4 from each o | tiiwp ? orte person of ^ najestic appi ^ afarice < ai * d musical skill was cho ^ n to lead the band . Thejp
then < : haunted hynai > s in honour of Gcxi , composed ia different me ^ ties 3 soirle > Umes / singing together * tidies io altern
ai < tli ^ c responsive ation ! . ^**^ Mai > y have imagined tbat ) & <* Tfeei ^ peUtae were Christiaira and even Eu ^ ebius speaks of them thus , though his account of them frotn Philo completely confutes
tike supposition . It is now generally admit led , that they were a sect of Jewish ascetics , at Alexaru dria ^ exisringin considerable numkfcta P ^ befo re Christianity coglil ^ t&nbciQr © Christianity coyki b much known
fe « v «^ ^ e n in t | p plnc ^» -r-nrrqim th e , particular acw ~ W * nljhvahi : das Philo gives of their * $ Qd&-: iotsinging , it js most probau fete t ^^ vthejThprapeuta »* did not ^ mplc ^ Histnume ^ tal accompaninientsv 5 ¦} i ;« . * -
A * fff Cv ^ Ftrac ^ s from Phijlp are derived fi ^ rfBea ' d ^ rSdndl ^ 'Enftinl ^ Preface t ^ ttic BJpiite ^ Witfie fiph ^ siaiis , —If the 3 fttamp 4 u ^ giuufc ^ f ^ it
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2 , PJrfny , ( a . d . 107 . ) in hj ^ well-known letter to Trajan ( x * 97 . ) states , that the Christians wjip were brought before him in Asia Minor , affirmed , that this was the whole of their fault or error , that they had been accustomed to tneet together on a stated day , before it was light , and sang among themselves alternately a hymn to Christ as a God ; * { carmenque
-would at once have been inferred , from the sjlence of Philo , as to the use o £ instruaiental music among them , that they * must have objected to the intio * duiftibil of it into their devotional
services ; and this would have supplied an argument against the use of it in burs . As they certainly were not Christiaos , there will be little difficulty in adrnlf ? ^| ng » that if they did riot employ instru-^ otental accompaniments , it arose from Ip me other cause ; for instance , tliai Mistrumental music was at that time : I $ | js common in Egypt than in , Asi ? ^ 2 Winor , or that the Jews were less skilled
in the use of it than others , piirujg tht Babylonish captivity they hutig tfheir ftarps on the willows ; and it seems pro * - bable that they used them but little
afterwards . * This i * 8 Gardner ' s Translation of tfie clause , ( Jewish and Heathen Test , ch . tr . ) 1 * What Pliny means ( he after wards say ^) by secant invicem , which I have rendered by among themselves alternately , I cannpt say distinctly . Justin says , * they stood up and offered up prayers and thanksgiving together ;¦ and when the president had concluded , all the people said
AitifSh . * Perhaps this is what { Pliny means . "—Though lam not concerned 4 bth the passage , in connection wi ^ h the doctrine of the proper Deity of Christ , it may be as well to mention , that no inference could be justly derived from it , 3 *> to the opinions of the primitiveQiristians , unless it could be shewn that the words quasi deo ( as to a god ) were tlic words oi the Christians tfremselvea . If
they told Pliny no more than tha £ they u §^ 4 hymn ^ in pxaise of Christ ,, the Hli » then governor would naturally represent it as he r ^ as done . Supposing , however , that the quasi < feo wire tbeir / own word * , in wt » t © cose theyav »« 4 tfrc # M&iV io &- > ^ W »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/37/
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