The irony is they are biting the hands that feed them and have signed their own death warrant.

Pharma is the largest beneficiary of SSI and Medicare. The elderly and infirmed are their biggest cash cows and they short sightedly decided to kill their best customers to extend the flow of a cash for a few years.

No one ever accused them of being smart, just greedy and evil. They are the demonstrative example of the answer to the age old question, Can God create an objective so heavy that even he can lift it? If so he is not all powerful. Well, they have been a god of hubris and created something that will crush them under their own creation's weight.

The same can be said for fractionalized banking and law, all these nexus points are converging, forcing the extinction of the old system.

A new dawn arises soon but giving birth is very painful.

I did not have time to go on a homework assignment to answer your question during a night of otherwise engaging conversation but your query was not ignored.

You looked in the wrong places to either confirm or debunk my comment. I left enough clues. Since I was clearly speaking of the New Testament of the Bible's definition and translation into English from Greek, your search should have begun with the KJV and the Strong's exhaustive concordance to the King James Version of the Bible.

Galatians 5:20, the word witchcraft translated from the Greek is found in the Strong's concordance, entry number G5331.

pharmakeia: the use of medicine, drugs or spells Original Word: φαρμακεία Transliteration: pharmakeia Phonetic Spelling: (far-mak-i'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: the use of medicine, drugs or spells Meaning: the use of medicine, drugs or spells

Extra Biblical writings from historians explained why the practice was shunned and thought of as criminal behavior in those times. A practitioner was known for creating and selling mind altering substances that aided in divination and communication with spirits and they were also employed to create lethal poisons for the purpose of murder.

The Greek word used in Judea, in that historical period of time, in local slang, was synonymous with calling someone a poisoner. Similar to Europeans in the 1990's calling someone an oriental rug dealer was a slang insult, synonymous with calling someone a thief and a liar. The meaning of the insult had less to do with the origin of meaning but with perceived contemporary meaning.

Edit: Just to make clear, we are talking about word usage and its' meaning confined to the author's use of the word, given the colloquial definition at that time and location. The same word in Greece and Rome, at that same time, had a distinctly different connotation, the word was even venerable, as the Oracles of Delphi and Temple whores were respected and venerated by the Pagan worshippers. But in Judea, at that time the word φαρμακεία did not mean venerated high priestess but hired poisoner, drug dealer and deceiver.

Thanks!