Discussion: Is there any possible connection between the following?

The Greek for "hide" or "encrypt" is a word similar to the Greek word for "bake". If "wheat" is "baked" before the "leaven" rises, the "leaven" (false doctrine) can appear as "unleavened" (true doctrine).
This fourth parable comes right after the third parable about the mustard seed growing into a tree and the birds.

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Pastors preach about great "faith" being able to move any "mountain".

To sum it (summit) all up on mountains, a widely held (hilled) view, to top it off, is to use a higher level of thought (thaw-it) at the highest attitudes (altitudes).

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In some churches, it appears that Deacons (and office staff) can move walls. No mention of mountains here.

Daniel made some "off the wall" comments in reading the handwriting on the wall.

It the more global context, perhaps "the wall" that a deacon can move is not "the wall" on which the sign is attached.

The deacons (and office staff) can move "this wall" and not "that wall".

Jesus says that (unspecified) "faith" can move "this" "mountain" and not "that mountain" or "any (other) mountain".

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The ancient Greek word (smooth breathing) "ὄρος" ≈ "mountain".

Ancient Greek appears to have had no word for hill. They lived in a very mountainous area. Note that the English often uses "hills" where the Greek uses "mountains". The English state named "Montana" is from the Spanish word "montaña" ≈ "mountain" which is from the Latin word "montanus" ≈ "mountain".

The origin of the name "Oreo" in "Oreo cookie" is unknown.

One idea (there are others) is that it came from the Greek word for "mountain".

Aristotle uses the word for "mountain" often in his work on Meteorology.
Aristotle mentions the Pyrenees mountains and the Celts as a general Greek name for what is today Spain and France. The Latin name for the Celts was the Gauls.

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The Romans called the Celts the Gauls. The area of Gaul's (Celts) in Asia Minor was called Galatia.

Paul wrote the letter to these Galatians.
Julius Caesar slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Gauls and wrote back glowing letters to Rome about his accomplishments.

Galatia, as in Paul's Letter to the Galatians (or Celts) were populated by Gauls/Celts.

• Celts is pronounced with a hard "C" as in "K" as in "Kelts".
• Celtics, as in the Boston Celtics basketball team, is pronounced with a soft "C" as in "S" as in "Seltics".



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Speaking about the passover, Moses is later given the following directive from God.


This created two calendars in Israel, a civil calendar and a religious calendar, with a change of 6 months.

• New moon on the 14th of a 28 day lunar cycle.
• Add three days and three nights to get the 17th.

Note that if one reconciles the "three days and three nights" in the grave with resurrection Sunday, then the 14th of the month is Passover (according to the above calendar change and following verses) and the 17th of the month is resurrection Sunday. With the month change above, resurrection Sunday is on the anniversary of the resting of Noah's arc on mountains of Ararat.

Details are left as a future topic.

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Some preach that "faith as a mustard seed can move mountains".

• What is a "mountain"? Is moving a "mountain" (always) a good idea?
• Is this "any" mountain or the one and only "this" mountain?
• Is the "faith" good, bad or indifferent?
• The "unbelief" is used for the Greek word "small belief".
• What is a "mustard seed"? Is that "faith" "small" or "large"?

The verse does not answer these questions.

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The "chi rho" symbol became established under Constantine as a combination of two Greek letters, "chi" and "rho", the first two letters of "Χριστός" ≈ "Christ".

Might there by any interesting gematria meanings from the two letters?

• "Χ" = 600 (the first letter of 666)
• "ρ" = 100

Details are left as a future topic.

The Unicode for "Chi Rho" in the miscellaneous symbols block is "U+2627" or ☧.

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The mother of Constantine, Helena, toured the Roman Empire looking for historical sites of the Bible. Wherever these sites were declared, religious sites, churches, monasteries, etc., sprang up.

It was convenient that two important sites were found by Helena within the bounds of the Roman Empire at that time, despite Biblical indications that the site was elsewhere.

• Noah's Ark in Turkey (Bible appears to indicate Iran, in Genesis).
• Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula (in two places the Bible indicates Arabia)



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Emperor Constantine (275-337) was so disgusted by the politics and deep state in Rome in the 4th Century, that he ordered (commanded) that the capitol of Rome be moved to a new city, soon named Constantinople.

• Rome was an empire.
• An empire is represented as a mountain.
• That mountain was moved.
• How much "faith" was required?
• Was moving the mountain good or bad?
• What is represented by a "seed" of "mustard plant"?

Within a short time, a new deep state (tree with birds nesting) was established in Constantinople.

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Κωνσταντινούπολη or "Constantinople" is, literally, the "City of Constantine".

The Turkish word is "Istanbul" where the "bul" at the end is from "pol" and the "Istan" is how they appeared to have heard the first part "Constantin" (omitting the first part).

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The English word "strait" means "narrow".

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How did the huge Persian army get across?
For the Persian army to get from Asia Minor (Turkey) to Greek, it was necessary to cross over. The best places to do this is called the Dardanelles or the Bosporus (literally, "cow crossing" in folk etymology). These crossing points separate the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

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Herodotus reports that Xerxes, son of Darius, about 482 BC, had two pontoon bridges built across the Hellespont.

Herodotus reports that a storm destroyed the bridges and Xerxes had the builders executed (beheaded) and had the straight itself whipped (300 lashes) as a punishment.

The engineers then used ships lashed together with planks between them to allow the army to cross. Additional anchors were added to each ship to keep them from moving too much.

Some of those techniques are still used today.

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If Rome is considered a "mountain", as in an "empire", then Constantine, through "faith", did "move" the "mountain" of Rome to Constantinople.

• Less than 200 years later, Western Roman Empire (Rome) fell into the sea.
• In 1452, the Eastern Roman Empire (Constantinople) was conquered.



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If Constantine (and Rome) did not divide, as "through division" or "discernment", translated "doubt" in the KJV, into east and west, that entire "mountain" could have been moved into the "sea".

Ancient Greece was very hilly, to the point that hills were what we call mountains. In Ancient Greek, the word for "hill" and "mountain" was the same.

For those who live near mountain ranges, the modern Greek word "όρους" (O-rus) ≈ "mountain" is here translated as "hill".

• The modern Greek word "λόφος" (LO-fos) ≈ "hill".
• The modern Greek word "όρος" (O-ros) ≈ "mountain, definition, boundary".
• The modern Greek word "βουνό" (vu-NO) ≈ "mountain".

The ancient Greek word (rough breathing) "ὅρος" ≈ "boundary, definition" and is the source of the English word "horizon".
Aristotle often emphasizes the importance of "definitions" in identifying bad logic. Of course, Aristotle then defines what he means by a "definition".

• "λόγος" ≈ "rational explanation, word".
• "σημαίνω" ≈ "to indicate" and is the source, through French, of the English word "semantics".

The aspirated rough breathing comes through in Latin and into English in the sound of the letter "h". Aristotle used this word for "definition" many times. This was only used for a while in the first century BC and discontinued but persists in ancient Greek notations to this day.

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The ancient Greek word (smooth breathing) "ὄρος" ≈ "mountain".
The ancient Greek word (rough breathing) "ὅρος" ≈ "boundary, definition".

The smooth and rough breathing were close enough to be used as play on words but had disappeared by the time of Christ.

The ancient Greek words (and sounds) merged in modern Greek as "όρος" (O-ros) ≈ "mountain, definition, boundary".

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Consider the play on words between "mountain" and "definition" in Greek.
Late in the fourth century, Jerome translated what was to be called the Latin Vulgate. The definitions of many words of the "doctrine" or "teaching" were "moved" to be something other than what appears to have been meant in the Greek. The woman "encrypted" or "baked" false doctrine (leaven) with true doctrine (wheat flour) until it was all mixed together but appeared as true doctrine.

The moving of this mountain (i.e., many definitions) did put that present and future church in a position to do what might have been considered "impossible" before that time.

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Discussion: Is there any possible connection between the following?

The Greek for "hide" or "encrypt" is a word similar to the Greek word for "bake". If "wheat" is "baked" before the "leaven" rises, the "leaven" (false doctrine) can appear as "unleavened" (true doctrine).
This fourth parable comes right after the third parable about the mustard seed growing into a tree and the birds.

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The parable of the mustard seed corresponds to historical period of Constantine when church organization went from a relatively flat to a big tree-structured organization.
Some people prefer to just use church history to help remember the order of the churches, parables and beatitudes.

The horizontal scale is time. The vertical scale is the proportion that history evidences the traits of those verses. The historical interpretation is like a linear combination in mathematics in that what the verses say is more valid in some time periods than other time periods.

The probability that any 7 objects would be ordered at random in a given order is 7! = 7*6*5*4*3*2*1 or 1 in 5040. Note that there were many more possible churches or parables or beatitudes than used by Jesus.

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