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Podcast: The Forefront Radio
Episode: Uncovering Health: Pharmakeia Agenda
Description: If you know anyone that is dealing with addiction please help them get the necessary help they deserve.
Pharmakeia a vice
In ancient Greek, öáñìáêåéá = the use of drugs, potions, spells, and/or poisoning, witchcraft, magical potions. (See, e.g., the standard ancient Greek lexicon, by Liddell & Scott). In Koine Greek, especially in usage by ancient Jews and Christians, the word = sorcery, magic, etc. (As, e.g., in "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Liteature," by W. F. Arndt & F. W. Gingrich).
the use or the administering of drugs
poisoning
sorcery, magical arts, often found in connectio...