Chapter 14

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Our being and it is in him that we have forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life. So if we ask, Lord, that in these moments, as we study the Greek language together, that you would show Jesus to us, that you would use these classes and these studies to enable us to trust Jesus more, to love him, more, to serve him better, all for your glory, and for our good, we pray. In the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.en. Okay, so this morning, chapter 14, we're talking about nouns again. So we're doing a little bouncing back and forth. We talked about verbs last week. Remember, liquid verbs, kind of like contract verbs, except for the consonants were affecting that instead of the vowels. Remember, the learn more nonsense rules, or mineral, whichever was more helpful on that. So that was, um, liquid verbs. And this morning, we're going to talk about third declension nouns. And let's let me first say this is there's a good little section here that they have at the beginning of the chapter on some theological significance. We don't usually touch on these, but I thought this one was super helpful. And any of you who have ever had conversations, maybe with people of other religions, especially, like, Mormon or Jehovah's Witness, or someone like that. may have some personal experience with this, but even if you haven't, one thing that really stands out all throughout church history is that usually, if not always, heresies or false religions that try to connect themselves with Christianity. Usually, or like I said, always are getting one of two things wrong. They're getting other things wrong, too, but usually they got the Trinity wrong. or they've got the person and work of Jesus wrong. And this is why, when we think about the early, you know, acumenical creeds, like the Apostles' Creed, and then I see in Creed, and all of these, um, uh, kind of standard bears of Orthodox Christianity, those were the doctrines that they were working out in those days, because even early on in the history of the church, people were misunderstanding the Trinity. If people were misunderstanding Christ, and this was leading to heresies and false religions, and Paul, and Jude, and John, and others deal with that in their pistols. So even in the 1st century, this was happening. And so the church, you know, was working this out throughout history, and even today, all of these, a lot of these heresies, these false religions, are getting to Trinity wrong, or they're getting Jesus wrong. One thing, then there are a plethora of arguments that people will use, you know, to defend their heresy, but, but an example of one is the word for spirit in the New Testament, Penuma, is a neuter noun. If you remember, we talked about genders, of nouns, before masculine, feminine, and neuter, and we've noted already that the gender of the noun isn't necessarily a theological or a biological statement about a given word. It has more to do, just with the nature of the word itself, you know, how it's pronounced, that kind of thing. So, for example, like, in our paradigms, on first declension, our second declension nouns, we had the word techno. It was a neuter word, right? And, uh, techon means child. And we understand that that doesn't mean that all the children in the Bible don't have genders, right? It's just the nature of how the word is classified. Well, there have been, you know, people, heretics, false teachers, who will take the word pinuma, which is a neuter noun, and use it, to defend false teaching about the Holy Spirit. that the Holy Spirit is not a person in the Trinity, as we speak of him, that, that we, that, you know, they may use it to defend modalism, that there's just one God who has all these different forms, you know, or that the Holy Spirit is lower, um, than the Father or the Son, you know, ontologically, things like that. So, uh, they're misunderstanding, and even in our limited time that we've had together, 14 chapters through a beginner's book, you can all, like, you already know, but that's not the point. That's not what the, the, the, uh, gender, you know, um, the gender assignment of the noun represents, and but someone who hasn't been exposed, right? Even to the limited amount of grief that we have, that can be persuasive to them, right? And people can embrace heresy and false teaching because, um, something as simple as grammar classifications of Greek nouns are misunderstood and abused. And so today, as we begin talking about third declension nouns, Painuma is one of those nouns, spirit. And what we mean by third declension is, these are kind of, like, this is kind of, like, the island of misfit toys of Greek nouns. That's the chapter that we've arrived at. We've talked about first declension nouns, which are, um, feminine, right? Predominantly feminine, as we were getting started, uh, learning these, and we had, um... Bonet, Aphonet, and, um... a... cardia, right? We had an Ada pattern, and we had an alpha pattern for the first declension feminine ounce. And then we also remember there is also that funky little group, um... like, Daksa... or, uh... I don't know, miswriting my Lambda here. Doxa, or thalasa, words that had... sigh or a double sigma, and they followed that hybrid pattern of... alpha, Ada, Ada, alpha, in the singular, right? So we've been exposed to some, some kind of more obscure ones, quirky nouns there, but predominantly, the Ada pattern and the alpha pattern were our first declension, now it's feminine, right? A, A, A, N, I, O, I, S. Remember, declension just means pattern. It's like, it's these words that we've grouped together because they are doing a similar thing, that their endings all are doing a similar thing. So that was 1st declension. We talked about second declension. nouns, which were masculine and neuter, right? We had... halagas... and we had... um, Technon, which we just mentioned. Um, that's neuter, so we have masculine and neuter. Here, um... Trying to think. Yeah. So that, that's the basics of nouns that we've already kind of talked about very early on, right? So now, we come to third declension now. We get first, we get second, and now we're on third. And third declension nouns, as I stated, are basically, like, the island of Misfit Toys for Greek nouns. Basically, the ones that don't fit the first two patterns are what we're gonna talk about here with the third declension. announce. And what's important, I feel like we've been saying this a lot, and this is good news for any of you who, you know, actually have interest to try to retain as much as you can, is that this is, again, a recognition chapter. This is not a memorization chapter, um, because these are obscure, more obscure, and because, um, with these words and their endings, though there's a pattern, there's a reason we're gonna call it the third declension pattern, there's variations and lots of variations even within the pattern. Maybe about 30 total variations, in an investment, of the way that these words could look, versus all the first declension feminine, Ada, nouns are all gonna look the same with their endings, right? The logos words, the tech non words, they're all gonna look the same. But this is, uh, variation. Lots of variation. And so it's recognition instead of memorization. But we do want to have a familiarity with it to some degree. And so that's why there's a chapter. There's a whole chapter about it, because this is, these are the weird ones. At the beginning, when we were saying, you know, this ending is always feminine. This ending is always masculine. It's always neuter. That was just to get our feet established. And now we're gonna see a little more that, that's not always true. There is this third declension, but, um, the patterns that we've already learned are so prevalent, uh, important that having those memorized are gonna be to our benefit versus all these with variations. So, so all that makes sense so far, understand the... They are the exceptions to the rules. Exactly. I mean, all languages, including English, does the same thing. Yep. You know, these islands of misfit toys, like... Exactly. Yeah. This is the chapter of exceptions for nouns, 3rd glench and nouns. Nicely put, Jerry. So let's look at page 148. And here's here's something that we want to notice that for the third declension, um, there are these kind of patterns can either be neuter, or they can be masculine, feminine. First declensions, feminine, second declensions, masculine or neuter. The third declension can be neuter, masculine, or feminine, and there's kind of a general pattern that masculine, feminine both fall, and there's another pattern, follow, and another pattern that the neuter generally follows. So, um, we'll see the paradigms on page 148, 14.4, the third declension, um, noun feminine paradigm is first, and then the neuter one is second. The masculine is gonna follow the same as the feminine. So this pattern for SARCs that you see, it's gonna be the same type of pattern, same paradigm, or declension, as masculine words. The neuter one is different. So there's a lot of, if you watch the lecture, he does a lot of discussion on morphology, which can be helpful, and even in the chapter here, there's on page 149. There's all of this discussion of morphology, like why this is happening, why these look this way. And that's helpful and interesting. And we can discuss it some this morning to whatever degree, but let me remind you, we are, our goal is not composition of coin A group, right? Our goal is recognition in translation. And so, really, just to understand that this group of nouns is gonna, they're gonna have these funky endings, and there's gonna be changes that happen in the middle of the word, and just being able to recognize that is really mostly to our benefit. So, if you have interest in morphology, and why Greek words look the way they did, do, and what changed from classical Greek to coin in Greek, and, you know, that's that's cool if you're interested in that, but it's really not going to make much of a difference in terms of if you're trying to read the Greek New Testament, try and translate that. So, um, let's look at that 1st paradigm for Sarks. Hey, Sarks, this is a feminine word. So this is a feminine word that looks different, right? This is a misfit toy. Because we're used to... phone A or... Cardi, right? We're used to that. And then we get this word, and this is a feminine word. Socks. And you were like, Where's my ending? Where's my Ada ending? Where's my alpha ending? You know, how am I supposed to know that this is feminine? Now, let's also state this. Let's state the obvious, right? And I'm not all knowing. I'm not all wise. So I could be completely wrong on this. But, um, I think some of you have maybe even pointed this out here before. is, uh, being well schooled in the gender of Greek nouns, how much does that really affect translation? Especially, considering none of us are on a translation committee, none of us are getting paid to do textual criticism, right? Our goal is probably, uh, the, it would be amazing if we were all just, like, doing our devotions and using the Greek, and if we ever taught a Bible study or something, that would be quite an achievement for, for us, right? And so how much does gender, the gender of nouns really matter for that kind of thing? And, um, uh, and affect, like, a translation, not really much at all, right? A chapter like this, when you're learning Greek, um, is really, um, even at a seminary or a Bible college is exposing us to, uh, all of these, these categories and why these words look this way, and then, um, Obviously, there's there's quizzes and there's tests and there's final exams, and so there's motivation to really kind of, um, understand these more obscure things that really don't even affect much, like, for me as a pastor, like in my sermons, when I'm utilize, like, trying to translate Greek and stuff, like, the genders really not coming into play that much, right? And so all that to say, we're not taking an exam. right? We're not taking whizzes, like nobody's, you're not paying for this class. You not gonna get credit for it. Nobody's gonna give you an exam. And so, Really, exposure and recognition is the name of the game for this. I'm saying that even if you're, because I know, some of you, we've been, we've been very honest with each other about, hey, I'm just here to, like, have fun and be exposed to Greek. But for any of you who are even trying to retain to some degree, this recognition is really, you know, don't feel any pressure on this chapter. So Ben said, I don't know if anybody feels much pressure anymore at all, but if you do, don't feel much pressure on this chapter. Um, but so let's get back to the Sarks. It looks weird, right? Or like, what the heck? Well, here's what's going on. These words, um, these, these misfit toy words, um, have these uh, endings that we're going to see if you look on page 149, you can see a masculine feminine list, and a neuter list of different endings. There's the, and it's categorized the same as we have the paradigms, neuter, genitive, dative, and accusative. So you have, uh, these words, like SARCS, and... What we have to do with these third declension nouns is we have to memorize if we're memorizing vocabulary. The nominative and the genitive, because the genitive is going to give us the actual stem of the word. The actual stem of Sarks is Sark. And you can see, on page 149, that, for the nominative, singular, the stem sark... is, um, followed by a sigma ending... Sigma is actually the ending for this word word. But we remember from our square of stops that when Sigma and Kappa come together, it becomes... So that's why the nominative form of this word is Sarks, because it's actually Sarks. But the words combined. And so, when we see the genitive, star cos, we can see that that's the actual stem. And so then, we build the paradigm, we can build the paradigm from there. And again, this is, like, the whole morphology thing. At the end of the day, really, just being familiar with the endings is what's gonna, but let me just show you this, because, I don't know, because that's what we do. is what, is what, is what the Greek, the Greek geeks do, is uh, show you how this is built. I want to put that too low. Don't mind me. Just write this on the board. All right. So we got this. It got sloppy. Don't worry about it. Genitive, right? Singular, plural, or, uh, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative. Same way that we've always put the paradigms have looked, right? And so, we're memorizing this word, or we want to be familiar with sarks, sarkots. Uh, and there's other, there's other, um, things in this param that are going to look familiar to us. So the dative, singular, is Sarki. There's no dot there, 'cause that's not English. Sarki, and if we'll think back to some, uh, dative, singular words that we know for phone or cardia, uh, the dative for phone singular is phone in, right? And we remember that Ioda subscript. So the Yoda looks familiar to us. And that's what's happening here. Well, why doesn't the Ioda subscript for SARCS or for SARC? Because Yoda, only subscripts under... long vows. Ada, omega, um, Ada, omega, what's the other one? I don't know, I'm drawing a blank right now. It doesn't subscript under constants, though. And you're like, maybe, maybe, the most studious among us would even be thinking, Well, how would I know that? How do I know not to subscript it? How do I know that it goes on the end? Here's the good news. You don't have to, right? We don't have to compose point in Greek, right? We just have to be familiar. When we see Sarki, we just, like, want to know 2 or 4 of the flesh, right? That's that's the goal. That's what we're doing here And so this is just, we're just kind of seeing like, uh, behind the curtain a little bit, you know, Wizard of Oz type thing. Um, how that's going on. So, Sarks, Sarkas, Sarki, Sarka. Um... That alpha, um... Uh... No, I was gonna say something with Cardia, but we don't want to confuse ourselves even more than we need to here. So we got just, there's an alpha there for the accusative. Maybe we can remember that, alpha accusative. There you go. Sarcas for the plural. Which we do in English too, right? Um, Think about the word dresses, you know, ES, pluralizes it, maybe that, that could, uh, be a good little memory device there. Genitive plural. What do we think it's gonna be? We already know that, right? Own. Okay, nice. You have to change that, 'cause that's a sigma? All right. Let's see if I did that right. I think I did. I think you did. Yeah, I did. Oh, my God. Thank you. So... We said the, uh, epsilon sigma ending for the plural, the own ending for the genitive plural, uh, the dative plural is, uh, sin, sigma, Ioda, and then we got that movable new. Of course, because the sigma and the kappa are connecting there, that's gonna change. Um, Dr. Plummer said, uh, for the date of plural, you can remember if you're if you're going on plural dates, you need to beware not to fall into sin if you're not married. So, uh, that's that's his that's his memory device there. And then sarkost. So, this is how I... memorized this when I was in Bible college, and then just carried it, is the way the same way that I think of all the paradigm endings, like for the feminine plural, I just think of the endings, you know, to the tune of whatever song, A, A, A, N, I, O, I, S, for the masculine, a, o, o, an, o, o, o, o, o, o, o, o, o, o, Um, for this one, I always remembered... Asia, as Oncias. As, as, ia, as own, c, or sin, as. Um, It's still in my head. Barely. Yeah. Ah, see ya, as owns see us. And then the neuter's not that different. But that's the, that's, that was, 2008, maybe, when I took that class. 1st with Dr. Joseline. Um, Pretty much the same with the neuter, you can see at the bottom of page 148. There's some similarities, right? The nominative singular and the accusative singular mirror each other, pay Numa. And that is how we pronounce it by way, pneuma, not pneuma, like Rob Bell used to have those pneuma videos. You guys remember those? Back before he went full, force heritage on everybody, or full force apostate. When he was, like, doing his, like, Christian thing, he would do those Numa videos and, you know, be all weird and stuff, and, like, youth groups would watch it, and college kids were all excited about it. But, uh, and he spelled it weird, too, but we pronounce it pay puma, okay? That's how we say spirit, pay Numa. Pay Numa in the nominative, pay Numa in the accusative. Um, and then, uh, the the dative and the genitive, singular endings are the same as the masculine feminine, us, phenumatas, phenumati. And that's why, again, if we're thinking about it, pay Numa, the nominative, that's why, uh, he recommends memorizing the nominative, and a new, uh, and the genitive. Because we see, that's the actual, that's the actual root, right there. Um... The... Painuma, uh, ending for the nominative is not a sigma. It's just nothing. Look on 149. See, this is where this is all the morphology. Like this is why it's going on for the masculine and feminine, nominative. The ending after the root, the true root, can either be a sigma or it can be nothing. And that's gonna depend on the word looks. And then you see all those other endings are what we, what we have, what we have on the board. For the neuter, it can be a sigma or nothing, and then we have all of the endings in the paradigm at the bottom of 48. Us, E, uh, could be a sigma or nothing for the accusative, because in the neuter, the accusative, and the nominative mirror each other. Same with the plural, the nominative, and the accusative mirror each other, and then we have the genitive own ending, and the sin, the date of sin ending same. Well, for Peduma, the ending is not Sigma. like it was for SARS. The ending is just nothing. And for some reason, the Greeks don't like ending words with town. Ending with the T sound. They don't like it. Too harsh maybe. I guess, yeah, but so that's why it's not. It's just paynuma. And that's simply the reason. They don't like to get the towel out of here. Peace out. We don't want it. It's not welcome here. kind of like with the liquid verbs. You know, this was the, you know, the evolution of language, and what sounds good to them, what was okay for them. So, anyway, I wonder, too, if, like, so many of the articles start with Tao, that, like, it would be too confusing if you were taught just speaking, and then, you know, you, like, had your towels connected again. Could be. Could be a double, you can't go double tap. Yeah. a little too much. Here's the other good news, too, with the with the articles that you mentioned. I'm glad you said that. The articles for the 3rd inclinion are exactly the same. And so, if you're reading in the new Testament, and you're, you come across to, hey, SARS, or hey, SAR, you know, the, the, the article does the work for you. It tells you what the gender is. So that's, again, this recognition, right? We're like, we're seeing that there is some weird stuff that we haven't seen yet. Um, and so that's, that's really, uh, kind of like for the whole chapter at the point. And now, I don't want to say that the gender has no consequence, because again, at, you know, like at the beginning of class, we talked about, there are legitimate heretical groups that will argue unbiblical, uh, the unbiblical nature of the Holy Spirit based on the neuter gender of the word. And so. You know, not only grammatically and for translation, do we want to understand as much as we can? But also, if there are apologetic arguments, if there are theological discussion, if we're just, like, trying to understand God better for ourselves or help others with that, um, these, these are, uh, tools in the toolbox. You know, even beyond just wanting to know Greek, theologically, historically apologetically, in ministry, you know, there's we've had people in our very own church who have. Wandered into some strange confusion about the trinity that has required multiple conversations and. So, again, this kind of stuff, it just, it's, it's, it can, it can have, um, benefit, even beyond just personally, like, I'm trying to learn how to read the Greek New Testament, you know? Even if the benefit is, well, no, actually, you don't understand what gender. Like, let me tell you what Greek, the gender and the Greek language actually is, you know, and how words are classified because of the harsh or soft nature of the word or whatever, you know. Yes, Jerry. You just said the word that I was looking for, soft. Yeah. It would seem that when a word is neutered, how we perceive neuter, does that mean gender less? Does it mean gender unknown? Does it mean gender we don't care? Or gender, it's not important. I can see that floating all over the place and it being soft. Yeah. That's true. Which can cause all this confusion. No doubt. People arguing with each other. Yeah, no doubt. And I'm not a a linguistic expert in a morphological expert in that kind of thing, but from while I've gathered, it seems to me, like, the words that have been classified as masculine are the harder words, words with harder endings, you know? And what I mean by harder is like. You know, the, the, the pronunciation, you know, and I said, not necessarily like, uh, you know, the, the, the word Jell-O couldn't be a masculine word or something, but just the pronunciation, and the feminine words are the ones with the softer pronunciation, and I'm not sure. Because, again, I'm not an expert, but just on observation is, like, I don't know if the neuter necessarily means, like, in between or if the neuter means, like. Doesn't fit these categories so here's the random 3rd category. I'm not sure, but it definitely doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit is this ethereal, uh, uh, non-personified being, right? Because the scripture doesn't speak of him that way. First of all, the scripture speaks of the Holy Spirit with masculine pronouns. Now, we know the Holy Spirit and the same with the Father, that they are spirits, right? They do not have human bodies. They do not have male genitalia or female genitalia. They're spirit. The Lord Jesus, in his incarnation, became a human man with the full anatomy of a human man, but the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all classified and spoken of and revealed themselves with masculine pronouns. And so we should, very simply, as even before you get into other arguments, we have to speak of God the way he speaks of himself, right? That's number one. Whether that offends our culture or our personal sensibilities for whatever reason, we don't get to decide how we talk about God, right? God gets to decide how we talk about God, because he's God. And this is how he's revealed himself. And so the gender discussion, as you guys know, has worked its way in our culture and all sorts of things with the sexual revolution, with transgender stuff, with feminism, with egalitarian, you know, churches and debates about should women be pastors, and the debates about, uh, complimentarian and egalitarian, and by the way, we listen to that podcast, you guys sent, like, that's another example of where this this kind of stuff's, like, seeps its way in to those gender, cultural type discussions. And sometimes, like, a lot of times it's, they don't understand, or they're trying to use it to their advantage in a way that, that, that, the gender classification of a Greek word, and, like, the Greeks, these thoughts were not in their heads, and they weren't even, you know, the Joe Schmo on the streets of Rome or Jerusalem or Athens or wherever, they weren't thinking about the words they're speaking or writing as, like, this is, I'm writing this masculine. I am writing this new room, right? Like they were just right. They were just thinking, speaking same as we do. And so it is fascinating that all of these, uh, not only cultural gender arguments, kind of drawn this stuff, but even, like I said, heresy about the Trinity, about Jesus and his person. And so, all that is said, like, we can't always be prepared for every fight that's coming to us, but we can pick up little tools along the way, and this is a tool that can't even come out of this class. We should all kind of have. Like, we've talked about this gender thing with the language quite a bit, and so maybe the Lord will use it. and for us in the future. But if nothing else, we want to think rightly about God and how he's revealed himself and his word. What's their defense for, like, straying from this, you know, kind of standard? Yeah, you know, you know, it was about the spirit, you know. Yeah. You know, what's their, you know, when you confront them and they, well, no, that's what we think it is, you know, a matter of opinion or something? Yeah, I mean, it's a lack of understanding about, you know, what I don't want to say because there's, oh, there's right, all sorts of people and all sorts of groups who would argue this kind of thing. And so each individual would maybe have different motivations or different understanding. But in general, it stems from, they don't understand what it is. If they do understand the nature of why a Greek word is a certain gender and they're abusing it for their own, uh, purposes, assuming that you're not gonna know, that's possible too. You know, I don't we don't always know. Sometimes they don't know, sometimes they're just trying to assume you don't know and use it. But I can tell you, like, the person, you know, in our church family, our church body, who's really struggled with this, it has been, you know, just a lack of education, and then surrounding themselves with friends who are of, like, a Pentecostal votalist tradition, and a lack of education, NYSA education, even just, you know, study and reading on their own, like, trying to learn. That mixed with relationships of people who've kind of already embraced heresy or heresy adjacent or whatever, that's been the situation here. But there's all, you know, for 2,000 years, these debates and these misunderstandings, like I said, stemming back mostly to the Trinity or to Christ, have led to every heretical group, every false religion, every... I mean, the major world religions today, Islam, and Judaism, and Mormonism, and Jehovah's Witness, and what they all get Jesus and the Trinity wrong. They get a lot of other things wrong too, but that's the starting place of what they're getting wrong, right? And so, um, was, like, Pentecostalism is, is that the same kind of thing, uh, misunderstanding of the Greek, you know, I don't know, I guess they're still active. know that, you know? Yeah. Yeah, that would be part of it. There's more to it than that, you know, and even among Pentecostals, you have some that are super extreme, like just pure heresy, and how they talk about the Trinity. Like you have to say, you're not even saying Christian things right now. This is a Christian. And then you have everything in between, to people who, they dance around, and they don't know, and they might say something radical, and then they might say something good, and they're just kind of talking about what they feel, and not, you know. So it is, there's always a wide variations, but it's a, it's a, and I don't, I don't mean this maliciously, because this can be true of all of us. But at the end of the day, it's a lack of discipline, self discipline, to keep our minds focused on what does God say about himself and his word? Because we can think, oh, I love the Bible, I love God, I love Jesus, and but if we're not, if the word's not shaping our thinking about God, then we just start thinking our own stuff, right? And making up our own thing, and whatever feels good to us in the moment of, you know, and we get influenced by the culture, we get influenced by other Christians. And so a lot of it, there's just like whole cultures, of churches and denominations and networks of Christians who had believed the same thing that are undisciplined in how they're, you know, thinking about God. And that's, you know, what I'm saying that, like, there can be disagreements among Christians, that doesn't mean someone's undisciplined. But when we're talking about heresy, getting into heresy, it's either that or it's a genuine, malicious, they're trying to deceive people, and they know it's wrong and they're, you know, I don't, we don't know for sure. Like, it's, it's, there'd be different ones, but yeah. And, you know, John has a lot of engagement with people online. So brother, you can probably speak to a lot of experience that you've had. So I didn't, I should have gave you more time to do that, but, but I see you nodding your head a lot. No, I agree. No, you, no, you go there, right, man? Yeah. And so, I mean, did Jehovah's Witness, you know, in John chapter one? And Jesus is a God. That's another example of a Greek. And then, you know, you try to, I had a, the Greek professor. He said I'd challenge him, push back, and they don't know where to go with it. They were just told to say that, you know, and then they gotta get the next higher up guy or whatever. So it's fascinating how there are a number of heretical arguments that really try to use Greek grammar. you know, to defend their point. And it's it's a misunderstanding or it's or it's intentional deception. I don't know. We know that Satan's behind it all. Because his his A game is to do what? It's to twist the word of God. That's what he did in the garden. That's what he did with Christ in the wilderness, to take scripture and to just twist it, and that's what he's done with all these heresies and apostates and him. So that's why we got to be locked in on the Bible, right? To whatever degree we know, Greek or Hebrew, I think we need the Bible because that's left to ourselves. We're doing the same thing. We're gonna do the same thing because we're sinners, right? And so, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know to the degree to which, but there's, but it's happening. It's all over the world, you know. Yeah. All right, I think that's good enough. And I took more than enough time on that. For third declension. So, yeah, that's it. These are the weird ones. These were the island of Misfit toys for our nouns. So, okay. Um... Jerry, could you close this in a word for it? Gracious heavenly, Father. We thank you for your great salvation, and that we thank you that you didn't stop there. You gave us your word that we that we may learn, that we may know what you would have us to know. Amen. Dear Father, we thank you for this opportunity to learn this Greek language in part or in whole. And we now ask you to continue to bless us with a service to follow, or we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. Thank you. This was fun today, guys. Good.