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In this well-researched book, prominent scholar Everett Ferguson argues that a cappella, or unaccompanied, congregational singing rests on good biblical, historical, and doctrinal grounds. Drawing from his extensive scholarly background, Ferguson combines his knowledge of Greek and Latin, ancient church history, and Christian fellowship to give meaning and context to his discussion of the power...

second century A.D. said “It is impossible to pipe [aulein] without a pipe or to strum [psallein] without a lyre or to ride without a horse” (Parasite 17).6 Aristides, the second-century orator, could say “as easy as plucking [pseleie] a lyre’s string” (Orations 26[14].31). The third(?)-century treatise De musica by Aristides Quintilianus contains the statement, “If we were to stretch a string across a plane surface of corresponding dimensions, into which all the numbers can be fitted, and if we
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