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SERGE m French
French form of SERGIUS
SERGIUS m Ancient Roman
Roman family name, which possibly meant "servant" in Latin but is most likely of unknown Etruscan origin.
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Saints Serge & Bacchus
[305-313 AD] - Adept and excellent soldiers of Christ, cultivating assiduously-[devoted or solicitous attentions] the inspired writings to combat diabolical error, and fighting vigorously in battle to defeat the enemy
"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in..." [Romans 11:25]
"Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will: The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains; but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defence of the gospel. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice." [Philippians 1:15-18]
"...but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets. Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, 'Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.' So I went to the angel and said to him, 'Give me the little book.' And he said to me, 'Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.' Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. And he said to me, 'You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.'" [Revelation 10:7-11]
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The Passion of Saints Serge and Bacchus is a primary example of early Christian literature which reflects Hebraic/Christian wisdom/prophetic tradition, where 'Sodomites-qadesh' [as literally: 'a man going abroad' Ref: Targum Neofiti 1] are equated with the holy ones of hymeneal cults, such as Dogmatic Hebraic/Christian Theology [See also 1 Timothy 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:17; Acts 19:33], who were known to 'bind grooms and brides (through sorcery)' and practice corruptible deeds such a worshipping a constructed likeness of God, as an idol/image representing a 'male or female likeness'.
As was indicated in the earlier chapter, Jesus of Nazareth makes qualified use of this representation of covenant antagonistists as 'honeymooners'. Traditionally a term used to reflect a correlation between the changes of love and the phases of the moon. Within the Hebraic Wisdom/Prophetic tradition, honey is symbollic of affections to the Law of God:--"My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding, that you may preserve discretion, and your lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell. Lest you ponder her path of life--Her ways are unstable; You do not know them." [Proverbs 5:1-6] Not only does Jesus describe the Pharisees as 'malakos/truphe' [Matthew 11:7; Luke 7:25; Thomas 78], but makes a pronouncement, as a series of woes, against them:-- "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves." [Matthew 23:15]