[Greek] ἀναστρέφω (anastrephō), [Latin] conversare, [Latin] revertere, [Latin] subvertere, [French] tourner, [French] expulser: to turn back, to overturn, to conduct oneself, to bide, to return; Mt.17:22, Jn.2:15, Acts 5:22, Acts 15:16, 2Cor.1:12, Eph.2:3, 1Tim.3:15, Heb.10:33, Heb.13:18, 1Pet.1:17, 2Pet.2:18
Yoda, the anastrophe master who subverts sentences. Pope Francis’ seeks to subvert Jesus’ historical and hierarchical Church into a democratic and synodal Church led by both clergy and laity. A poorly catechized laity making decisions about Church doctrine and teachings!! —> what could ever possibly go wrong with that???
Background information:
Greek Hellenism: This term means to turn back, to retreat, to exile, to dwell, to change, to invert, to conduct oneself, and to be engaged.
Sophocles’ Philoctetes 449: “No, the gods take excellent care of their kind. They find a strange joy in turning back from Hades all things criminal.”
Euripides’ The Suppliants 331: “For the gods reverses all things again.”
Euripides’ Hippolytus 1176: “For a messenger had come saying that Hippolytus would no longer dwell in this land, being exiled from you.”
Herodotus’ The Histories 1.80.5: “So when the battle was joined, they turned to flight.”
Aristophanes’ Plutus 779: “What a misfortune was mine. I want to change everything.”
Old Testament: This term means to come back (return), to conduct oneself, to bring forth, to overturn, to change, and to return.
Walking with God:
- This term describes one’s religious and ethical “walk” (way of walking) in life.
- This term refers to non-spatial walking with God on earth.
- This term refers to one’s moral sense of piety (walking in a straight path in life before God.)
- This notion becomes very important to the Hellenistic Jews of the Diaspora who lived outside of Jerusalem.
New Testament: This term means to abide, to return, and to behave (conduct oneself).
Scripture:
Jn.2:15: “Jesus drove all of the money-changers and overturned their tables.” (Jesus overthrow the money-changers’ tables because the money-changers took up space in the Gentile’s outer court, preventing them [Gentiles] from worshipping. The Courtyard of the Gentiles in the Temple was to become the precursor to Jesus’ outreach to the Gentiles.)
Eph.2:3: “All of us once lived among them in the desires of the flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.” (Paul states that the Ephesians were dead in sin and transgressions, following the ages (values) of the world. We can either make the choice of walking in the way of the Lord or in the carnal ways of the world.)
Acts 15:16: “I shall return and rebuild the fallen hut of David; from its ruins I shall rebuild it and raise up it again.” (Jerusalem was later led by terrible leaders. Jesus seeks to restore the House of David.)
1Pet.1:17: “Conduct yourselves in reverence during the time of your sojourning.” (Christians, belonging to God, are temporary strangers and sojourners on earth. Christians are called to be in the world but NOT of the world.)
2Cor.1:12: “We have conducted ourselves in the world with the simplicity and sincerity of God, not by human wisdom but the grace of God.”
Simplicity and sincerity of God: Being in conformity to God’s will and grace.
Human wisdom: Worldly values, sin, selfishness, deceitfulness, paganism, compromise, and tolerance.
Heb.10:33: “At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction; at other times you associated yourselves with them [abused and afflicted].” (Those exposed to abuse and affliction may become a spectacle to others. Circumstances may cause or force one to share (experience) these afflictions with others.)
2 Pet.2:18: “They teachers seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from the people who live in error.”
Anastrophe: This is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, verb and object is changed (turned).
“The greatest teacher, failure is.” Yoda
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!” Jane Taylor
“Hello, darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again.” Simon and Garfunkel
“Stupid computer, why aren’t you working!” [Fill in your name here]
Conclusion:
Convert, converse, conversation subvert, subversion, turn, return, expulsion, reverse
This term has the basic sense of turning. In classical Greek, ‘to turn one’s self about’ refers to one’s conduct or behavior. This notion continues in other cultures later in history. This term can range from turning back, engaging, and abiding.
It was very important for the Jews (Hebrews) to walk with God in being faithful to Him.
It is speculated that about one million Jews traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover. It was necessary for merchants to sell sheep, oxen, and other supplies for the visitors.
Update: The historical Arizona anti-abortion [pre-Roe vs. Wade] law has been deemed “extreme” by many. This is how much our societal moral values have become subverted. TRADITIONAL VALUES NOW MEAN EXTREME VALUES! Taking this argument to its logical conclusion: If we get our traditional values from God, THEN ONE MUST CONCLUDE THAT GOD IS EXTREME!
Subverted racial equity justice policies and crime laws have encouraged rampant crime, store theft, and store closings.
Jesus’ Church handed over to the Modernists has become a declining worldly synodal Church filled with heresy and schism. “Reforming” and “renewing” the Church has not lead a growing Church. Pope Francis and his inner circle are overturning and subverting Church Tradition!
It now seems quite evident, we need to have a Pope Pius XIII, a traditional shepherd, to lead the Church back to its traditions. The Modernists are failing in their leadership of the Church. It is as if the Modernists are managing the decline of Jesus’ Church (Ex. church closings, sacrilege, decreasing vocations, poorly catechized laity, loss of Tradition, lack of faith and belief,etc.)
The Modernists’ remaking Jesus’ Church into a synodal Church in the image of man has become a SUBVERSION of Jesus Church. The Modernists seek to have a POORLY CATECHIZED LAITY involved in DECISION-MAKING of the Church. This means laity involved in deciding doctrine, church teachings, and theology!
More smoke of satan: If you criticize Pope Francis’ Modernist policies undermining and subverting Jesus’ Church, then you are divisive and rigid. More and more faithful clergy are being cancelled, removed, censored, and laicized for daring to speak out against Pope Francis, synodality, and questionable teachings and documents. (It is as if we are living in an upside-down bizzaro post-Christian secular world!)
Governors Abbot and Desantis have “turned the tables” in bringing to light the problems of illegal aliens and the unsecured border.
In the post-Christian world, unfortunately many Catholics and Catholics are turning away from traditional beliefs.
Many churches are turning, subverting, diluting, or changing their theology to conform to the age of the world.
President Biden, rather than fully supporting Israel’s war against Hamas, is actually hindering and subverting Israel’s efforts by setting conditions on Israel. (It is as if Israel saying to the United States: “If you support us, support us fully!”
College and university protests supporting a Gaza ceasefire have been subverted into protests supporting Hamas and anti-Semitism!
In this post-Christian secular world, many continue to act in carnal ways.
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