carpenter = "a worker in wood"
1] a carpenter, joiner, builder
   1.a] a ship's carpenter or builder
2] any craftsman, or workman
   2.a] the art of poetry, maker of songs
3] a planner, contriver, plotter
   3.a] an author
derivation: from the base of (5098)
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5045&version=kjv

(5098)
1] a rendering help
2] assistance
3] vengeance, punishment, penalty
derivation: from (5097)
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5098&version=kjv

(5097)
1] to be a guardian or avenger of honour
   1.a] to succour, come to the help of
2] to avenge
3] in the NT, to take vengeance on one, to punish
derivation: from a comparative of (5092) and ouros (a guard)
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5097&version=kjv

(5092)
1] a valuing by which the price is fixed
   1.a] of the price itself
   1.b] of the price paid or received for a person or thing bought or sold
2] honour which belongs or is shown to one
   2.a] of the honour which one has by reason of rank and state of office which he holds
   2.b] deference, reverence
derivation: from (5099)
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5092&version=kjv

(5099)
1] to pay, to recompense
2] to pay penalty, suffer punishment
derivation: strengthened for a primary tio {tee'-o} (which is only used as an alternate in certain tenses)
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5099&version=kjv

Comment:
In modern Israel, a law requires that an archeological department of the government be notified immediately upon the discovery of any ancient artifact or other remains of people, including their bones. Such discoveries are sometimes accidentally made by excavations for construction. One such instance resulted in the eventual discovery of the bones of more than 500 Jews who had lived from about 170 A.D. to about 130 A.D. An examination of their bones showed that the peak of the bell curve of their age at death was 29 (Occidental reckoning, in which the child is counted to be age zero when born). In other words, many Jews who were born during that time were dead at or before the age of 29 (again, Occidental reckoning). This situation has many implications. One of the implications is that it was imperative that people became married as soon as possible in order to transmit the Jewish society from one generation to the next. So if people were to marry at the age of puberty, and that age were to be 12, (13 by Oriental reckoning, the child counted to be a year old at birth) then their first child would have been born to them when they were 13 (13 by Occidental reckoning, 14 by Oriental reckoning). Their first grandchild would therefore have been born when they were 26 (Occidental reckoning). Considering that many of the Jews were dead at or before the age of 29 (Occidental reckoning), the majority of Jews had little or no expectation that they would participate in the rearing of their grandchildren. The Jews therefore  focused on teaching their society to their children, not to their grandchildren which many of them never lived to see, let alone to teach. One aspect of their society was an occupation by which to earn a living. Although the practice of apprenticing children was not unknown, parents often taught their own occupations to their children. To mention the occupation of a father was therefore equivalent to mentioning the occupation of his son, except if the occupation of his son were to be different than his own. In that exception, the occupation of the son would be stated in addition to stating the occupation of the father. That is, if only the occupation of the father is stated, the meaning of the omission of a stated occupation for the son is that the occupation of the son is the same as that of his father. The occupation of Jesus was therefore that of carpenter. An examination of the various meaning of 5099, and then upwards through its various derivatives to and through 5045, carpenter, shows that many meanings, if not all, are directly or indirectly related to the actions of the Holy Ghost while He inhabited the body of Jesus with Jesus or as a consequence of His inhabitation of the body of Jesus with Jesus. A person would therefore ask the question: was the occupation of Jesus, that of carpenter, a factor in the selection of Jesus to be the person whose body would be co-inhabited by the Holy Ghost? Or would Jesus have been selected even if his occupation had been different than it was? A related question therefore is: would the Apostles have been selected to be Apostles if their occupations had been different than they were? If not, then the examination of the meanings of the words denoting their occupations may provide additional insights, as does the examination of the meanings of the word carpenter (and the meanings of the words it was derived from) in the case of Jesus. And a further point to ponder is this: if the body of Jesus was co-inhabited by the Holy Ghost after Jesus was selected, then were the bodies of the Apostles also co-inhabited after their selection to be Apostles? If so, is that the meaning of the statement in paragraph 074 which reads, "And when they were come down, he called his twelve disciples, and gave them power over all unclean spirits and to heal disease."? That this is indeed the meaning is shown by the parallel use of the word "power" in the portion of paragraph 024 which reads, "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go into thine house." The "power" which Jesus had, for that purpose and for other purposes as well, was his co-inhabitant, the Holy Ghost. So the question becomes: who was the co-inhabitant of each of the Apostles? Was it yet another copy of God, the Holy Ghost, in each case? Or was it another entity in each case? The glaring similarity between Joshua and the twelve priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant, and Jesus-Holy Ghost and his-His twelve Apostles, leads to the question: did those twelve priests also have co-inhabitants? If so, were they the same co-inhabitants who later co-inhabited the twelve Apostles? Furthermore, was the Holy Ghost also a co-inhabitant of Joshua? Further this latter question, the glaring similarity between these three pairs: Joshua and Moses, and later Elisha and Elijah (aka Elias), and later Jesus and John the Baptist, leads to the further question: was the Holy Ghost previously a co-inhabitant of Joshua and later of Elisha? If so, are Joshua and Elisha the two (or more) people which paragraph 069 referred to in the portion which reads, "But to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. "? If not to them, by reason that the Holy Ghost co-inhabited with them, then to whom else and for what other reason? Further the question of sitting on the right hand (which indicates a greater preference for the person thusly seated) and on the left (which indicates a lesser preference for the person thusly seated), it may be that more than one person could sit to the right hand or to the left hand. If so, this might account for the equally glaring similarity between these pairs: David and Samuel, and Jesus and John the Baptist, as well as their aforementioned similarity to Joshua and Moses, and to Elisha and Elijah (Elias), respectively. The fact that the Holy Ghost co-inhabited with Jesus in the body of Jesus unbeknownst to the people who knew him in his native region (as shown in paragraph 034), leads to the conclusion that we might be equally ignorant about who is co-inhabiting with whom today. As we are prone to say. "Can't judge a book by its cover." Or equally prone to say, "Can't tell the players without a program." Or, as Jesus-Holy Ghost said (in paragraph 016), "Ye [are] serpents, for the tree is known by his fruit", which saying of his-His we are prone to paraphrase in our modern saying: "Wicked is as wicked does." Unfortunately, we can't tell who is wicked, and who is not, until they do something. Equally unfortunately, our ideas about what is wicked, and what is not, are not yet always correct. So some of us sometimes call evil good, or vice versa. A thorough review of this topic therefore seems to be in order. One such review is available in paragraph 111. Unfortunately, some will read that review and then do as he did.

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