Good Morning,
The Greek here is very important! We get the Bible from Greek texts and here two words are translated:
Sorcerers -- φάρμακος
favrmakos pharmakos {far-mak-os'}
the same as 5332:--sorcerer.
Whoremongers -- πόρνος
povrnos pornos {por'-nos}
from pernemi (to sell; akin to the base of 4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):--fornicator, whoremonger.
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Revelation of John:
Rev 22:14-15 KJV Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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So a pharmacist is a sorcerer! And a pornos, a whoremonger, is one who sells sex.
The point of bringing this up is to understand that what we face today is not foreign to the Christians in the past. We are told that the Bible is archaic and needs very sophisticated scholarship in order to understand which is nonsense. It's another cloak meant to dumb is down and keep us arguing and debating the nuances of deception.
#porn
#sorcery
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#pharmacist
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"pharmacy(n.)
late 14c., farmacie, "a medicine that rids the body of an excess of humors (except blood);" also "treatment with medicine; theory of treatment with medicine," from Old French farmacie "a purgative" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia "a healing or harmful medicine, a healing or poisonous herb; a drug, poisonous potion; magic (potion), dye, raw material for physical or chemical processing."
This is from pharmakeus (fem. pharmakis) "a preparer of drugs, a poisoner, a sorcerer" from pharmakon "a drug, a poison, philter, charm, spell, enchantment." Beekes writes that the original meaning cannot be clearly established, and "The word is clearly Pre-Greek." The ph- was restored 16c. in French, 17c. in English (see ph)."
https://www.etymonline.com/word/pharmacy#:~:text=pharmacy(n.),see%20ph).
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"πόρνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
See πόρνη (pórnē).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pór.nos/ → /ˈpor.nos/ → /ˈpor.nos/
Noun
πόρνος • (pórnos) m (genitive πόρνου); second declension
male prostitute"
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From Proto-Hellenic *pórnē, from the Proto-Indo-European root *perh₂- (“to sell”), which also gave the verb πέρνημι (pérnēmi, “to sell”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pór.nɛː/ → /ˈpor.ni/ → /ˈpor.ni/
Noun
πόρνη • (pórnē) f (genitive πόρνης, diminutive πορνίδιον); first declension
female prostitute, particularly a common whore
Usage notes
In ancient Greece and Rome, the unrefined πόρνη was distinguished from the upper-class ἑταίρα ("companion" or "courtesan") who was expected to be further skilled in conversation, music, philosophy, etc"
