Chapter 12

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Today? Right? In pain. Today's the day. Good. I know, I see you've got your swag on. That is what made me think of it. Big day. My mom loved NASCAR. I think you were the two people that I know here that were the biggest NASCAR fans. and my mom. Oh, again. She have any more beds, so... Yeah. Well, we lived down south, though, everyone... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We would, you know how people would, you know, after church, whatever, get together, watch football or whatever down there, they would get together and watch the race. Oh, wow. Yeah, they're they're big. Oh, you lived in Virginia, right? Virginia's big NASCAR country. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, happy Daytona day to you. To all who observe. Yeah. Are we...? We're rolling. Okay. Let's pray. Is there anything? Is there anything we want to pray about today? Did you guys have a funeral? Yeah, yesterday I was, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, the family first. Yeah, absolutely. Anyone else? Anything we want anyone know? Okay. There's always things, right? right? All right, let's pray, then we'll get started. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for your son, Jesus. We ask for your blessing on our class. We continue to pray for Sheila and her family, as they grieve and mourn, pray for your comfort, for them. Pray for Sue, as she's recovering, and they prepare to move over to this side of town. Lord, we ask for your grace, there. We pray for good class today, for wisdom, for fellowship, as we talk about the Greek language and the New Testament that you've given us. We pray in Jesus' name, pray by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. All right, so last week, we introduced the airest tests. We've been moving forward, you know, and go, we started with nouns, moved to verbs, made some other things in there. Um, like prepositions and whatever else. And the last couple weeks, we've been back talking about verbs, right? Verbs are action, action words, right? verb is what you do. It was the old campaign. And so, a couple weeks ago, we talked about the future tents, Louseau. We talked last week about the heiress tents. Remember Eris coming from the Greek word, Oristas, which means undefined, or without borders. And the form lexical form there was Elusa. And so today, we're going to talk about, well, this chapter 12, which is what we're calling second aorist. So let's do a little, um, review or or let's kind of remind ourselves of some things that we do. We've been doing every week, but we need these reminders, help kind of help dig that deep down into our brains, hide it in our hearts, if you will. about all these kind of terms and categories that we're talking about. So, we're talking about indicative verbs. Indicative is the only mood we've talked about so far. right? By the way, chapter 12, I think, is halfway in the book. I think there's 24 chapters. So congratulations to all. I don't, I think that means, probably, by the end of May, we're not going to get through the book, seems like, we had, you know, our original schedule, but, but we've reviewed quite a bit. So, but anyway, congratulations. You have made it halfway through this book. The remnant, the elect remnant that you are. has made it halfway through the book. And so, no matter what happens moving forward, right, we've at least been exposed to these ideas, and so that's really cool. So congratulations, everybody. Made it halfway through. And so let's remind ourselves, though, with these categories, these terms that we're using. So the indicative mood, remember, the mood in the Greek language, is giving us the perspective of the author about what he's saying. We don't really have this kind of category in English. You know, we, in English, our context, or the type of literature, may, tell us, like, the author's perspective on what he's writing. You know, is it reality, or is it not? In Greek, they have the mood, the form of the word, which indicates that to us, the indicative is telling us that the author is viewing this as something that's happening in reality. Right? There are three other moods, we haven't talked to. We haven't even talked about them yet, really. Just in overview. The subjunctive mood, the imperative mood, and the optative mood. So we're only in the indicative, and this is telling us most of the New Testament is written in the indicative. We have been talking about these different tenses or tense forms, and we remind ourselves often that when we hear the word tense in English, we think of time, the Greeks weren't as quite obsessed with time as we are, in terms of how they viewed reality in their lives. And so maybe the term tense form is more helpful to us to remind us that it's not that time is not always what's at the forefront of that, right? Outside of the indicative mood, time is not a consideration at all. Again, we haven't seen that yet, but that's how little time is only considered one of the four Greek moods. And so tense form is gonna tell us something about time, but the greater emphasis is on the verbal aspect, right? But we said this enough to where that is, like, make it sense, that seeping in. And so, as we think about the verbal aspect of these different forms that we've learned, remember we started with the present tense, the present active, uh, of Luo, President Active, O, A, A, Amen, E, T, Usi, or Usen, um, and the middle passive form of Luo, Luo, Mai, O, Mai, E, Atai, Amat, a Methodist on the Tai, the old story. Right? And the imperfect Aluan, Eluamatha for the middle passive, the imperfect, and the present, in terms of verbal aspect, are what we call imperfective aspect, or progressive, right? The emphasis is on the action as it's happening, with no regard for the beginning or the end. What happens before, what happens after? And then we learned about the future tense, Lousseau, which has a, what's called a perfective aspect, or a holistic aspect, meaning the emphasis is on the action, just as a whole. Really, with not regard for the details, just that the action happened. We noted last week that the same is true, then of the heiress tents. Now, the heirest time is usually a consideration. We see that augment there, right? Remember we saw that in the imperfect, that epsilon at the beginning, that augment is indicating to us past tense. That's not a guarantee, past tense, because, you know, we noted last week that the gospels and acts will use, um, we'll use, uh, the errors form maybe if someone's speaking just to speak of an event that happened or something, but, um, past tense is in the indicative, uh, we're gonna assume that that's part of it. So, that's kind of what we've seen so far with all the tense forms, and then, of course, we have the voice for all of them, the present, the middle passive, remember the future, and the heirest both have individual, middle paradigms, and passive paradise. Right? As we kind of overview all that, does anybody have any questions, anything that all, that's all familiar by now? Okay. So, as we move on to now what's called, what we're gonna call 2nd aorist, we will see that the aorist has some irregular forms. Just like every language does, right? This is true in English. Present tense, I say, go past tense, I say, went, right? Go and went. Irregular. There's, there is, you don't say I goed unless you're a three year old who's learning how to talk, right? But you say, I went. Um, and there's no way, if you're, if you were learning English, grammar, and syntax, and vocabulary, and if you were doing, like, everything that we're doing with Greek and doing it with English, there's no way to, like, figure that out from, from the word go, right? I mean, you just you have to memorize that you just have to know that. The same is true, uh, similar here with the air is tense. By the way, the reason why the past tense of go is what is because Went was originally the past tense of an old English word to wend. You guys know that? No, I learned that this week where I was reminded that this week if I knew it before, to when meant to kind of meander, you know, to like kind of walk slowly and take your time and not not be in a rush. Um, and so at some point, the old English past tense of go was Yod. To Yod, and at some point, they just replaced the, you know, evolution of language and all that. So anyway, the same is true with the 2nd heirs. The second heiress is these words, these forms, they're different in form. They are exactly the same in function, though. So everything we learned about the arist, last week, kind of the past tense, holistic, all that kind of stuff, is true here. These are not, this is not a different form. It looks different, but it's doing the exact same thing. as the first errors. It just looks different. And so, there's not really, for us in chapter 12, Paradise to Memorize, but this is one of those things kind of like we talked about with contract verbs and with prepositions. We want to be familiar, because when, if we, you know, if we see them, we can be thrown off because they look so different, but they are functioning exactly the same as the 1st aorist. Different in form, the same in function. So if you look at the paradigms at the bottom, on page 126, can see we have the paradigm for Lombano. Um, which means I take or I receive. By the way, if words are, words are either gonna be in the first errors or the second airest, they don't have both. So there is no second aorist for Luo. Luo is first heiress. And again, we're labeling these first and second. It's just because they, a group of them have this, this paradigm that is predictable. That's the same, and another group of them have these different forms. That's the only reason. And so, we have Lombano at the bottom of page 126. And as we look at this paradigm, let's notice what looks familiar to us. First, we see the augment, the beginning, right? The Absilon, same as the 1st terrorist, same as the imperfect. And then look at those endings. Those endings are exactly the same as the imperfect active endings, aren't they? On, S, N, Amen, Ete, An. So there is no new endings for us to learn with the second air. We already know these. The imperfect, they're the same as the imperfect, active endings. The difference then is the, um, just the root or the stem, they're in the middle. That's what this is what gets the tricky part, but the secondary is. These stems or these roots, they change, they morph, and, um, we just have to be familiar with them. Really. We have to be able to recognize them. And so that the Lombano, it becomes lap, lap. And so you have the augment, and you have the imperfect endings, and then you have this changed form, this changed root, or this changed stem. And anytime, some a lot of these, we just train our aunts and we trade our minds to see like when we see. Lob, like more than likely that's Lombano. Um, and this is why it's tricky because when we see these imperfect endings, our, our brain's gonna think imperfect, right? We've trained ourselves to know that these endings are imperfect. But they're that root or that stem, there is not gonna be an imperfect form of those, that that's what's gonna clue us in, that this is second arist. See the same with the 2nd aorist, middle indicative, for Ginomine, underneath. Ginomine means I, you know, I became or I was, it happened kind of thing. Those same thing with the augment. See that epsilon in the beginning? And then you look at those endings, Amain, oo, it's a, a, a, a, a, Those are the middle passive endings for the imperfect as well. Same thing. Same thing. What's different there is that again, in the middle, the root or the stem, and that's from from Ginomai. And when you see that, you see that again, it's going to be, you know mine. Like we, you just, you gotta, you're gonna get, you know, get used to it over time. You train your mind, you train your eyes to see it. Um, The, uh, middle, middle only words, like, you know, my, like, Echo Mai, like, well, you know, whatever, they're always again gonna take this middle form. They're not gonna be passive, right? They're, what we know too, with a lot of these 2nd aorist words. A lot of the words that fit into this category are transitive words. There are words of reciprocity, or words of movement. There are words that aren't usually gonna have passive forms, 'cause they're not gonna be passive. There are a select few that are that will see, you know, a couple pages down, but for the most part, the active and the middle are, all we need to familiarize ourselves with because most of these words that are gonna fit in this category would not be passive. Just by the nature of what the word is. So, any questions so far? No? Make sense. All right, well, let's look on page 127 then, and then we'll see some the beginning of some examples. In fact, on these next two pages, 127 and 128, he gives quite a few examples. I don't know this surely is not all of them. Because you'll note in the middle of page one and 27 that 40% of all errors verbs in the New Testament are secondarist. So that means 60% are 1st errors. So majority are first stairs, but we learned last week, but 40% are second aarist. So this certainly isn't all of them. This may be all the words that have been in the vocabulary so far, maybe, would be my guess. But if you look, uh, look, you know, kind of the top of 127 there where he's got this 1st list with Bleppo. Bleppo is Adon, is the second airest. Now, you may think, if you're like me, what? Like how do we get that? Same thing as going went. And, you know, it's the same thing. There was prior reason at some point. I don't know, maybe in classical Greek or whatever, but by the time we get to the point A period, by the time we get to the New Testament, this is how they're speaking, you know? Um, it is interesting. We don't always, we don't always note the footnotes. My eyes are always drawn to footnotes. I don't know if it was because when I was, uh, doing my dissertation, I had to, like, do all the footnotes, and and I was trying to always make, like, have, have a good footnote, you know, like, can I make this actually, like, a footnote that people would want to read and find helpful? Um, but it is, so I do like look at the footnotes and you know usually they're usually they're not. They're not really giving you much, but every once in a while, you'll find a golden nugget of a footnote. So read your footnotes, people, and check them out. It is funny though, footnote number two, they do note that there is one occurrence of the 1st heiress of Bluffo in the New Testament. Revelation 22 eight. So that is interesting that this, you know, this is an example of a word here in the New Testament that takes both, but that is super, super rare. More often than not, Bleppo is gonna be Adon. Also, Greek scholars debate because why not? That's what they do. Uh, whether Adon comes from the word bleppo or, uh, Haro, both mean to see. Bleppo means to see to view, right, Haro, as too. And they're like, they, they don't know because it's the past tense of I, you know, I saw, and both those words mean to see. So doesn't ultimately matter, right? Because what are we doing? We're trying to read and translate. We're the detectives who have the finish form, and sometimes we need to work backwards to figure out what's going on. But, yeah. They uh, they're not sure about that one. But this is a good example, Aircoma. I mean, like you would, we wouldn't get that that wouldn't. There's no. Connection there. It's just you see it enough, and then you just know that Elthon is there, right? You memorize it. If you can beforehand in whatever way. I don't think he's got any songs for this chapter, unfortunately, for us. But, um, you know, road memorization or or, uh, cards, has anybody used flashcards at all? Okay. Yeah, so flashcards, writing, writing things out, right? There's ways to be memorize. But the truth is, if you get to the point where you're actually in the text, like in the New Testament, These words, a lot of them, especially one like Althon, which is from Air Kromine. I mean, think about how frequently that would be in, like, the gospels and acts. You know he went. He went. he went he went He went here. He went there. I mean, that word is all over the place. And so, you know, you see it enough, and then your brain's just registering it, right? But there's, you know, besides knowing that, there really is no other way. It's just it's a go to when situation. It's it's what it is. As Theo becomes Ephagon, Lego, Apon, Pharaoh, um, and name, and Ancon, um, so yeah, like there's this whole list. Oh, by the way, yeah, he does note this too, in the middle of 127, that Ericomai occurs in the air more than 350 times in the New Testament. So yeah, that's there a lot, right? Again, like I said, gospels acts all over the place. But we have this whole list now of these words at the bottom of 127, going into the middle of 128, where he gives the lexical form of these second earth words, the imperfect form for us to compare. Um, then the second area is and how it's built with the Aris root. And for this, in the video, in his lecture, his online lecture, he goes through all of these, and what he did is, he crowd sourced his class at the seminary. Southern, and I don't know when the video was recorded. But whatever, that doesn't really matter. But he crowdsourced them of, what are different ways that you guys memorize, you know, pneumatic devices, like to help remember what the word means? Because that's helpful when you're learning a different language. you know, to equate things. And some of those are helpful. Some of them are kind of silly as you would imagine. The truth is, the best way to do that, that's something you really want to do. Like having your own kind of, you know, one that means something to you or personal or as a memory for you or whatever is gonna always be the most helpful. But some of them, some of them do, some of them do stick with us even if we hear them from someone else, right? Let me think, let me look at them and see if I can remember anything. So look at the top of of page 128. Urisco, the word Urisco, which means I find, I find. And the second airest is Huron. And so his example was something like, um, Eureka, I found Lake Huron, you know, that kind of thing. Which may be helpful for us, Michigan anders. You know that's that's close to us. He is down in Kentucky. But, of course, the word Eureka does come from the Greek Eureka, I found, but that's an example, right? And so that is a way we talked about that too also with, was it the propositions? There was something to where we we I even rehearsed some of his like memory devices, kind of silly little memory devices. And so I remember doing that in class too, both in college and seminary. But, um, if you wanna go through and listen to all the examples that he gives on the lecture, you can check that out online. I think this the lecture for this chapter was like 23 minutes or something. So not as long as not as shortest, but he does go through this whole list on page 127 and 128 and gives the illustrations from the class, his class. Let's see if there are any other ones that kind of stick out to me. Nothing's kind of coming to my mind, but the Huron one I thought was pretty good. He had one about Pinot, which means to drink that's the third one down on page 128. And Epion, and I can't remember exactly what he said, but he did make a note that he teaches at Southern Seminary, and no one's allowed to drink alcohol. If you're a professor or student and so. He was kind of tripping all over himself to like preface that he's he's just using this as an illustration. So that was pretty funny. But yeah, you can check those out if you want to. Again, this is what I would say. okay? So you have the you have the book you have his lectures. different things and different. What is like my, you know, non-professional recommendation to you if you're like really trying to learn Greek and get through this book and retain is like. I would say these are not memory things. These are familiarized things. And you're gonna come across them if you get to the point where you're reading and translating, you know, and they're gonna throw you off and you're gonna look it up and you're gonna be like. Oh yeah. And then you're gonna see it enough, like, you're gonna see Alfon enough for Aircomai, and it's not even gonna be a thought to you. Um, that's the kind of thing. So I would, I mean, if you're if you're super duper overachiever and you're like, I want to try and memorize all these forms, then more power to you. But I would say familiar as, like, read through the chapter, listen to this lecture, um, you know, and just know, just know that the heiress, I would recommend that you memorize the, uh, first heiress paradigm, because, again, 60% of the New Testament, uh, heiress forms are in, uh, the first heiress. And there is, again, if you're a song person, he's got the verb ending songs that has the present, the imperfect, the future, the heiress, and the perfect are all in that song. So I would recommend that you, if you're, if you're trying to really learn this, that you memorize the 1st series. But with this, familiarization. I say familiar with the same thing as the contract verb, same thing as the propositions. Just become familiar with it. Um, let's see, what else should we note? There are, so he's got, he does a lot of morphology conversation, again, if you're into that. If you're if you're a morphology nerd, he's got that for you. But look now at page 129. 12.6, the 2nd hair is passive. So, I said, most of the second arist, not in the passive form, right? There are some, there's a limited amount, and you can even notice, they're in the middle of the page, he gives the frequency of them, and, uh, they're not a lot like, for Ago, which means I lead. Ep thing is used twice. In the New Testament. I was led Balo. Eblay thing 12 times. You know, all these words, he gives the frequencies. It's not often. But again, we you want to at least have seen this, right? At least have heard that this exists. And when you see this form, when you see elk thane and you're like, what the heck? What? What is this verb that makes no sense to me, right? If we're, if you're, if you're a good student and you're kind of keeping up with things that feign ending is gonna clue you into a passive, remember that theta is, like, a beanbag or a lazy boy, you know, you're passive, and we saw that in the future. We saw that in the air. So that's gonna clue us in. Okay, this is a passive, I think. But what in the world? Ape thing. And oh yeah, that's Aggo. Of course. Well, you know I'd never get there, right? Of course you wouldn't. And so you would look it up and you would be like, oh yeah, this is one of the weird ones. This is one in the second area. Um, So passive, super infrequent, but but it is there. I mean, uh, Urisco is 17 times, Urethane, but then maybe, you know, you see that, you see, you know, the epsilon, and the upsilon, and the row, and and. The more you read it, you're gonna, this is, I this. I think this is Eurrisco. But what is the form? What is it doing? You know, a lot of those roots that you see over and over again that that are the same when you see lob, it's gonna be Lombano. When you see, when you see the gamma and the new, that's Gonosco. I know. And so that comes with time too. You know, if you spend a lot of time in it, Oh, I like that page here. And that's the next thing that they know in 12.7. The 2nd air is active of Gonosco. This one is worth noting because the it's it's a lot of times it throws people off. It throws students off, uh, because it, uh, the stem, what it, what it changes to doesn't have any bowels. Or it does have a vowel, but it's the omega. You know? And so, it, um... It has, uh, it's what is called, I'm trying to think. There's some, there's some, uh, like, like morphology terminology where they call they call it zero vowel gradation. Just because everything's got to have a fancy name, you know if you're an academic, right? It's gotta sound legit. If it doesn't sound legit, then what are they paying us for? So, zero vowel gradation. You'll notice that, though, uh, so, like, the, the 1st person of the 2nd heiress of Gonosco, Egnon, um, Egnos. The 3rd person singular is what throws the most people off. Look at the top of page 130. egg no. A lot of people see that, and their first thought is, it's a present active indicative of something, right? Like, like, uh, luo, or Lego, or one of those words, and they're like, what what is this word? And no. And it's not a present active indicative at all. It's a it's a 2nd airest of Genosco, the third person singular when you see that. Geno, the Geno, uh, it's it's gonna be Genosco. Just we work backwards. We figure it out. Um, Let's see. The endings here, kind of similar to, uh, Or actually exactly the same as we've talked about as the imperative, but instead of an Omicron, we have an omega. Uh, you know, is that instead of on, S, and, and, and, on, its own, O, O, O, O, O, O. That third person plural at the top of page 130 is the one. Point in the paradigm where it does, it's not taking the imperfect. Ending. As an error ending. Um, and there are other verbs that do that too. You can notice in 12.8, L Thon can be L Thon, can be L Thon. It's hard. The alpha and the omicron kind of sounds similar. So you get what I'm saying, though. You see that, uh, and why did that happen? Why, why sometimes in these 2nd eras? 3rd person plurals. I know this is riveting when we're just hearing myself go through all this leg, it's like, ooh. But it's there and you're here. So we're doing it. These 3rd person plurals of 2nd arist, words, will take these, uh, the 1st arist ending and not the imperfect ending. Why? Why did the smart people say, right? Again, it's one of those things where it was potentially confusing, and you had a lot of people. Here's the thing to remember for us, too. And this is more historical, I guess, if you're into, like, history, to sprinkle it in with this, all the grammar and this index that we're doing, is most people in the Roman Empire, the Greco Roman culture at this time, were speaking Greek as a 2nd language, right? They had the Greek spread, if you remember from the first week, Greek became the official language when Alexander the Great kind of took over the known world, and then the Romans just kind of inherited it because everyone was speaking it. But everybody had their their home language, their tribal language that they spoke as their 1st language. We know even for Jesus, for the apostles in Judea that they more than likely spoke Aramaic, they knew Hebrew, they knew Greek, right? They probably knew Latin, like there was all this different language based on who you were dealing with. Are you dealing with commerce? Are you dealing with the government? Are you dealing with your family? Are you in the synagogue right? So they have all these languages, and for most people, Greek was a 2nd language. And so, things that were potentially confusing, you know, from the classical Greek era, they're just like, we ain't doing that. Like we, you know, what's the easiest way to speak here? What's the easiest way to communicate? And so that's probably an evolution of that. Super niche, right? We're talking about something that's super niche here, but if you want to understand that, more than likely, that's what happened, so. Anyway. What's the bottom line for today? Second is familiar, familiarized, not memorized, but familiarized. Just know there's a second heiress, and know that if it's a weird form, you know, you look it up, and then you remember, Oh yeah, that's second airest. You see it enough. You see it enough, you'll know it enough. For me, for me, I see Alfon, I know what it is. There's some, I might see, and I'm like, what is this word? And I'd look it up and figure it out. Um, let me see. I think that's probably everything in the chapter. We can, uh, and we're right about it time. Let's read through the vocabulary, so you can see that, page 132, 12.10, the vocab, arrow, means I take up or I take away. Up, angle, up, up, angelo is, I announcer, I report, up, angelo. Apoctano is I kill or put to death. Apostello, as I send out, like the word apostle, sparrow is I sow or I plant. Glosa is language or tongue. Grafe is, that's a, now we're looking at some nouns, writing or scripture. Um, Lithos is stone or lithos is stone. Naas is temple or sanctuary. Parabale is parable. Transliteration. We see it always helpful. Sofia means wisdom. That was that's the story of our 1st daughter's name. It's taking Greek at Boyce College and learning vocabulary, and I was like, man, if I ever have a daughter, I want to name her Sophia, and we agreed, she agreed, and we kept it. We held it in the holster for three, you know, after three boys. It was always the plan. So, Sophia is wisdom. So, Teria, salvation or deliverance, think about soteriology. Kronas is time, like chronology. Um, some, uh, Dio, or Dia, means therefore, or for this reason, and Yuthus means immediately or straight away. In the gospel of Mark, Mark says over and over again, immediately this happened, immediately this happened, immediately, and it's youthus, youthus, youthus, youthus, over and over again. So immediately you're straight away. And that's the vocabulary. And we're at 1010. So. I think we call that a win for a second airess. Familiarized. Dont worry about memorized. Unless you are just an all star. Hey, if you're hey now, you're an all star. Get your game on. Go play. If that's you, then hey, memorize it. But familiarized. Um, I would say if you're reviewing, if you're doing any reviewing, especially this week, because we're, um, this is a familiarized, non-memorized chapter, going back over old paradigms, going back, if you haven't, if you have or haven't looked at much vocabulary, you know, maybe looking at some vocabulary, but that 1st declension, uh, second declension, nouns, uh, present, uh, indicatives, imperfect indicatives, uh, future indicative, 1st heiress, all that kind of stuff, you know, looking over them. Uh, this weekend, just, you know, familiarize. Read the chapter, watch his lecture, and, uh, That should be good. Cool, cool beans, cool beans, everybody. All right. Sweet. Yeah? Good boy. Here we go. You kids do that, or... Nonstop. Actually, I made a rule in our house that if the kids say six, seven, they have to do 10 push ups. Yeah, because it was getting out of control. It was, yeah, it was getting obnoxious. And so now, what happens is, like, the boys will say it, the rule is, like, if I hear it, they have to do, because I don't care if I don't hear it, right? But the little girls will come and tattle on them that they said it, even though I didn't hear it, so yeah. And AJ likes pushups, so he'll say it, just so he can do pushups. He will. Yeah. He's that guy. He's that guy. Yeah, Jim bro. He's a gym bro. He's super into the whole gym bro vibe right now. So, yeah. All right. We good? everyone's good? Okay, cool. John Brother, will you close some prayer? Yes. Father, would come to you with, um, with a thankful heart. We thank you for this day that you have granted for us, to be able to fellowship and your the language that you have provided for us, to be able to learn about it and study it as a blessing that we know that many that you have not given to many, we know that it is not something we have done, but is a mercy that you have bestowed upon us. So we ask that you would cause us to be thankful. And also, too, we ask that just like you have freely given to us your word and being able to study your word that you would provide for your people who are in need to hear your word and to read your word. with what that said, we come before you and just ask for the pastors, Lord God, that you will continue to protect them, and also too, that the congregates, Lord God, that we would continue to be an encouragement and to be thankful of our pastors and continue to pray for them. We thank you for his church. And we thank you for your word. We ask that you guard our minds and keep us focused on the essentials of the gospel, cause us to not be proud, cause us to be thankful. And this is a mercy that you have placed upon us. pray this, in Jesus, victorious name by the power of Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. Thank you. What was the, uh, Greek subtuagin, uh, translator, or creator, or whatever? Yeah. That was, it was, it was in the Coine period. Okay, okay. There's a difference between... There might be some, it's older in the coin age period, so there, and there's obviously a lot more vocabulary. You know, think about the size of the Old Testament versus the size of the New Testament? But it was in the early .8 period because, again, the reason, the need for the grief translation is after Alexander the Great's conquest. You know, before that, they weren't speaking, the Jews weren't speaking Greeks. So, yeah, it was, I'd say, I don't know what Zach dates, but somewhere, just after 300 BC. Okay. Yeah. The coin A period is, like, 300 BC to 380 is a good way to think about it. So, yeah. So but before that, they were just using the Hebrew scriptures. So, yeah.