Chapter 24
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You got our recording device going? Mm hmm. All right. Well, anything incriminated. I know. We're on record now, guys. So, yeah. We will go on record once again to state, though, that this is our last break class, so we made it through. Our book. We made it through beginning with New Testament Greek. Congratulations to all of you. Chapter 24, me verse, where we're gonna be today. 271, the last chapter. We'll also say, again, happy Trinity Sunday. I got a good, um, some of you have probably heard this before, but I was, you know, getting ready for my Trinity sermon and reading a bunch of stuff and listening to a bunch of stuff. And I listened to a lecture or a sermon that Sproll gave on the Trinity one time. I don't know if it was at a Linear conference or what, but, um, he was preaching from John 1, and, uh, he had a little joke that he started with. He said, he said, I'm not, I'm not an expert in Greek. But I know a little Greek. He's a tailor. And he said, he got a big laugh, 'cause his delivery, you know, was on point. Said, I know a little break. He's a tailor, and he said, uh, he said, I say to him, uh, you amended these, and he said, and he says, I have pleaded these, or some of them. I don't know. Rolled it way better. Anyway. Happy Trinity Sunday. Let's say a prayer and ask the Lord's blessing on our last Greek class. Next Sunday, morning, Mike. He made it. He made it. He's here. You gotta be here for the last 20 minutes. Oh, right. Next Sunday, we will begin our unified class for the summer. We will meet in the big room, right over there across the hall, talk about liturgy for the summer. What is, you know, the structure of our worship service? Why do we structure it the way that we do? What's the importance of it? What does it all mean? So we're looking forward to that class. I know some people are gonna be doing some teaching. You guys are teaching kids, right? That's exciting. Just so you know, we were talking about this last night. We're gonna record those liturgy classes just like we're doing this. So those will be on the website. for anybody who's teaching or are going to be on vacation. so that's a, I like this practice for us to have as a resource. So we're gonna do that for you guys just so you don't appreciate it. All right, let's write, and then we'll do chapter 24. Holy Father, we give you thanks. You are the one true and living God, along with the Son and the Spirit. Three persons and one God, and we worship you every day. We worship you every Sunday, our triune God, but we think today about Trinity Sunday and this special day on the calendar, whereas a church, we spend time to think together carefully about who you are and what you've done. And so, Father, we ask your blessing 1st on our class, as we finish up our Greek class together and talk about me verbs. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity for this class over this past academic year. Thank you for all these brothers and sisters who have come together for fellowship and for learning, and we ask that for each one of us, however much Greek were taken away from this experience, Lord, that we would love Jesus more because of this class, that we would, our hunger for your word, would grow, both in our personal reading and study, and as we listen to, the word of God preached. as we teach, in different avenues, whether it's children or small Bible studies or or preaching, whatever you would have for us. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity. We ask you and use it to bless our church for your glory and our good. We pray in the name of Jesus, we pray by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. All right, family, this last chapter is about me verbs. And it's fair to ask, what are me verbs? They are verbs that end in me. Selfish little verbs that they are. They're all about me. We haven't talked very much about me verbs, though, though we do know, we have seen this meverb already, haven't we? Amy, which, you know, means I am or I exist. Of course, the Lord Jesus, very famously, said, before Abraham was, Ego a mi. I, I am, alluding back, quoting back to Yahweh, with Moses, at the burning bush. I am who I am. And so we know of Amy. And so what we're gonna see today is that there are a subset of verbs that follow this pattern, what have we seen so far, that we're used to with verbs? We've seen overbs, omega verbs, like luo, that we spend a lot of time talking about. We've seen those, oh my, verbs that are middle only. Remember that we thought that's the best way to talk about them is middle only. They used to call them deponent verbs, but I think middle only is a better way to think about them, like Eric Komai. So these are the most common. That's why we've spent the most time on them, and all the variations that flow from them, but there are this subset of me verbs in the New Testament. And this is one of those chapters. There's a reason why it's the last chapter in the book, right? These are more infrequent. This is more of a recognition that it is a memorization, but we want to at least be familiar with them. And now, little piece of advice for all of you moving forward from this class, weather, uh, whether we end up doing anything together formally, uh, in the future, uh, or not, or whether it's just your own personal, um, Greek experience that you have, if you have any interest in, in moving forward with your Greek. This would be my recommendation to you. Number one is, as you, whether this is for the summer or even moving forward for the future, the most important things for you are going to be to really get a handle on the verbs. The nouns are the nouns are important, but I would say if you're really wanting to like learn Greek and try to move forward with it, reviewing the verbs that we talked about, you know, the present, all the indicative verbs, mostly the indicative verbs. The six principal parts of the indicative verbs, I would say, are the most important. And then you have the other moods, like the subjunctive and the optative and the imperative that we talked about, but indicative verbs and participles would probably be the things you want to look at the most, and then vocabulary. Which we have not talked about much in this class, because really that's just a memorization thing. something that you would want to have the motivation to do on your own. We want to talk about the more conceptual things in this class, so we have a background. But if you're really trying to move forward in your grief, indicative verbs, participols, and vocabulary. Hit those, work on those, use the flash cards, try to know your paradigms, and that's really gonna be the most helpful for you moving forward. That's something I should be doing. That's something Dr. Brett should be doing. That's something if you're interested in Greek, those are gonna be the most important things. Me verbs, everything that we've learned about verbs already, indicative verbs, and so forth, are gonna be true of these me verbs. So there's nothing new for us to learn in terms of the concept, in terms of verbal aspects. Everything we've learned about verbal aspect is going to be true of the me verbs, right? The president and imperfect, give us that progressive, that imperfective verbal aspect, the aorist in the future, give us that holistic, or perfective verbal aspect. The perfect gives us that state of verbal aspect. Still true for the me verse. Look at page 272. You can see we have one paradigm that's given for us in this chapter, that has all of these, has 5 of the principal parts here. The present, the imperfect, the future, the heirest, and the perfect. But you can notice that what we are familiar with already, in terms of paradigms, are true here as well. There's, you know, first, second, third person singular, there's first, second, and third person plural. We have a present in perfect future heiress, perfect. All that's the same. I want to make note first, before we continue to look at that paradigm, and, um, if you watch Dr. Plummer's lecture, if you have already, or if you're going to, um, or if you just done with this class, and you're not doing anything moving forward, then you're just gonna get it from me. But if you watch Plumber, he'll go through this as well. What we want to point out about these me verbs is that the present form, the present form of the me verbs, includes reduplication. These three meverbs, ditto me, dippe me, and iste me, are the most common in the New Testament. Besides Amy. So, if you have a familiarization with Amy, and then these three, ditto me, tithamie, and histamie, then you will have a pretty good handle on, um, on me verbs. These words, the present tense, are reduplicated. Um, like we've seen with Perfect verbs in the past. Instead of an epsilon, reduplication. It's in the yoder reduplication. Hisstamy used to be, uh, cystamy, but then, at some point, that dropped off, uh, and then became his statement. That rough breathing mark replaced the sigma. These me verbs, I know I'm kind of all over the place with you, but these me verbs are a form that existed quite a bit in ancient Greek. Classical Greek. And remember, if you were here with us the first week, we kind of talked about the evolution of the Greek language and all the different eras, if you will, of the language. This is really an older form, and it's kind of stuck around. It's kinda still here in the New Testament, but it's very, very infrequent. That's why it's the last chapter. But we do need to note that there are some of these forms that have stuck around. So, with this remnant we have, if you will, this select remnant of classical me verbs in the coin A period. The present tense includes this reduplication. Well, why does that matter? What that means for us is that what we see here is actually the root of the verb, or the stem of the verb. Now, with that noted, let's look at the paradigm in the middle of page 272, and let's start with the future. Okay, if you look at the future tense, first person singular, it's doso. Dose, dose, dose, dose, dose, dose. That is the actual root of dittomi, I give or a hand over, dittomi. And those endings are the exact same endings that we had for the future indicative, aren't they? So, say, say, Sam and say, say, Susan. Same thing. So it's the normal future endings with the root of dittum, without the reduplication. Look at the perfect tense. We got reduplication here that we're used to, that we expect, Dedoka, the Epsilon reduplication. Look at the, uh, that kappa transformative in there. We're used to that for the perfect. 24k gold means perfect. And then look at the endings. Ka, kas, ken, kamen, kate, kan. That's exactly the same, right? As the perfect indicative endings that we already learned. So for the future, for the perfect, exactly the same, it's just with that root. Whereas we're seeing the ditto me as the vocabulary word that we're learning, because that's the lexical form, that's the present, active, indicative, first person singular, but once you know that that root is the actual stammer root of the word, and how you're gonna see this in the New Testament, shouldn't throw you off. Right? Look at the heirest. We notice the augment on the beginning, right? Because arist in the indicative means past tense. We notice the root there, the dough, root, and then the one difference here that we see with the heiress is that instead of a sigma, there is a kappa. Well, if I come across this, in the New Testament, how am I gonna know this isn't imperfect? How am I gonna know it's an heiress? Well, there's no reduplication. There's just the augment, right? And we know where duplication means perfect. The augment means heiress, but then otherwise, all those endings are the same. instead of a sigma to kappa, same endings as the heirest active indicative. The imperfect, we don't need to worry about because they're barely is an imperfect. Um, with ditto me. And with a lot of these words, I think the imperfect is way more infrequent. Now, here's the thing, is in a lot of classes, um... In a lot of classes, Greek classes, I think this was true, when I took Greek and Bible college and seminary too, you know, the professors would have us learn this present tense, uh, form for dittomey. Ditto me, didos, didosin, did a man, did ate, did asin, um, you know, as part of, like, whether it's going to be on a quiz or an exam, we'd have to be able to, uh, produce the present, um, paradigm for didomine. But the strange that's strange for a couple of reasons. Number one, of all the forms, the press intense is the most obscure here, right? Notice that the endings are really different than what we were used to for the present tense, the reduplication is unusual for the present tense. Notice that in the singular, the root takes a long vowel, do, do, do, but in the plural, it takes a short vowel, da, da, da. Do you see that? So didomy is very obscure. Also, I want you to notice, look at the chart at the bottom of your page. where he's got ditto me, tithe me, histemi, and he's got all these principal parts, the present and perfect future air is perfect. And the frequency that we see them in the New Testament. Do you notice that overwhelmingly the heiress is what's used for these meverbs? Like, I mean, for ditto me, it's 5 times more. 120 to 24. For his staming, the heiress is used 30 times. It's used one time in the present, zero times in the imperfect. For Tiff, Amy, 41 times in the air, only 12 in the present, only four in the imperfect, five in the future, four in the perfect. So what does that tell us? Now, again, we're talking about recognition. We're not talking about memorization, but in terms of recognition, for me, verbs, you know, moving into the future, if we're doing any study where we're kind of going back, and you're perusing these chapters, and you're trying to see if you can remember. For me, verbs, arist is where the money's at. If we're gonna spend any time on me verbs at all, uh, being familiar with the heirest paradigm is, that's where to go. And I'm not even saying memorized it necessarily. You just want to know when you're coming across this what this looks like. And here's a very helpful, little nugget for you. And again, if you have interest, if you have any interest at all in having a Greek toolbox moving forward from this class, taking certain things, this is the best tool that I can give you for your Greek toolbox with me verbs. Um, in terms of identifying the root, because with me verbs, what's gonna happen? I know this has happened to me. If I'm trying to translate through something, whether it's for my own study or for a sermon or something, I'm sure it's happened to Dr. Brett as well, is you come across a word that looks really strange. Like, does not look like luo, and does not look like Eric Kormi. Does not look like something that your brain is already used to. And it's a lot of times, it may be one of these me verbs in a different form. You know, in an heiress form, most likely, in an heiress form, right? Or even if it's in a present or perfect or something like that, if you see a word that you don't recognize, and again, that's assuming that, you know, you've done some vocabulary, you know, you know the basic verb forms. If, if you're, you know, if you do all that and you're still coming to a form that's really unfamiliar to you, if you see, uh, dough or da in the word. 9.9 times out of 10, it's a form of didomy. If you see, um, uh, Fey, said Fey, and let me double check this because I want to give you guys the right information here. Faye or Faye? 9.9 times out of 10, it's a form of tipamine. If you see. Stay, or stop, and you're unfamiliar, nine times out of ten, it's gonna be from his stammy. I stand. And a lot of times his stay me is has got a a preposition connected to it on a histemi. I rise up. You know that sometimes even used in reference to the resurrection. You know, Anastasis is a word for resurrection, anastasia. But on a histy knee is used for rising upstanding. And so, if you see dough or dah, and you don't recognize it, it's gonna be from ditto me. If you see a fay or a theft, you don't recognize it, it's gonna be from tenth Amy. If you see a stay or a stop, you don't recognize it. It's gonna be from his semi. And again, that heirest, heirest form is the most prominent, the most popular. Just a couple more things that I want to show you, and yes. Is the heorist form also predominant for other verbs? Uh, just the me verbs. Yeah, though, certainly. But in a lot of it, again, what we always say, it comes back to context, right? Right. So, um, a lot of times, um, if you have in narratives, like the gospels or acts, uh, they're gonna use the heorist a lot because, because, uh, they'll be telling a story, you know, and they're just giving, like, uh, they're giving that holistic perspective. You know, and I'm sure, I have no doubt, I don't know what they are at the top of my head, that there are certain verbs that favor the heirest, if you were to tally up the frequency. And a lot of that, you can read more advanced grammars or even, uh, uh, lexicons may give some of that information, but, uh, yeah, no question. There are verbs that are going to favor different forms, maybe depending on the nature of the literature, you know, whether it's a narrative or an epistle, maybe depending on the nature of the verb itself, you know? Like, like we said, let me give you a good example. Um, is, uh, his day me, his day me is a good example. And he doesn't, wait, yeah, he does here. Look at his statement. on the bottom of your page here, the indicative form frequency. You see that it's used one time in the present, zero times in the imperfect, eight times in the future, 30 in the air, switch we noted, but look at that, 20 times in the perfect. So that's almost, it's only 10 times less 20 and 30, the perfect, the reason it stay me, um, is used so often and the perfect is because the nature of standing itself, uh, is that you have stood and that you continue to stand, right? There's that state of, um, there's that stative verbal aspect, but built into the very nature of the word. We talked about in, oh, my verbs, like, Eric, oh, my, I come, I go. By the very nature of that, it's a verb that affects oneself. That's why it's a middle only type verb. So this is true for a lot of most, if not all, maybe, I don't know, of the verbs in the New Testament that the nature of the word or the nature of the context of the literature is going to be affecting how it's used. So yeah, that's a great question. That's a more advanced conversation, and I am, I don't know specifically, but I guarantee there are words, yeah, that favor the heirest because of those reasons. Yeah, great question. Jerry. Great question. Anyone else question right now? No? Okay, then let me show you two more things, and then you guys will be graduates. of Greek, maybe three more things, real quick. Number one, at the top of page 274, this is gonna be important to you, if you care at all. These are the six principal parts. And that's, again, if you want any tools for your Greek toolbox moving forward, the term principal parts is an important term. What does principal part means? Principal parts means all of the different forms that a verb can take. Present, future, heiress, perfect, you know, perfect mental passive, heiress passive. All the verbs will have these principal parts. And to be, you don't even necessarily have to be familiar or memorized the principal parts of all the verbs, but just to know that lingo, to have heard that term before. So that if you're ever, you know, reading commentary, or listening to someone talk about Greek, or even doing your own kind of study, like that that phrase is gonna come up, and you want to know principal parts means all the different forms that it can take. All the different, basically all the different, um, verb, uh, all the different tenses or tense forms as this book has called it. So principal parts. And here he gives us the principal parts of these three, um, these three, uh, Me verbs, um, the present, the imperfect, and the 2nd aorist forms are the ones that look weird for these me, verbs, all the other forms really follow closely. What we've already learned from indicative verbs. But again, arist. If you're spending any time on verbs at all, the air is where you're going to want to spend your time. Brief note on the non indicative form, so they give us the subjunctive, the imperative, infinitives, and participles, what they look like. You can notice this book is not spending much time on that at all, right? If you watch Dr. Plummer's lecture, he doesn't spend any time at all on the non-indicative forms. Because they're infrequent, because they're more obscure, but you know, give it a glance. If you're moving forward at all, you know, read the chapter, watch his lecture, give it a glance, and then you'll at least know, like, I have my brain has seen this at one point, right? It's not, it won't be, if you're if you're doing any studying or translating in the future, it won't be the 1st time. Is everyone glance in to see if like our friend is that on? There's always some kind of party going on. I can't tell if they're like fighting or maybe. It looks like a female and some males. Okay. They're fighting over her, are they? So are they? They're fighting. It's a male and a female? directly down. It's weird. Yeah, well. Spring, springtime is when that happens. What great company is coming in the house? Uh. We need to have a sermon about orgies. Yeah, he's moving. He's moving quick. We're just going over. Oh, unpredictable. Any questions about any of that? Because I want to say one more thing. I want to say one more thing before we, uh, before we get enveloped in mother nature. That's how before a coyote shows up. Yeah, before the party shows up in that party really gets wild. Um, one more thing to notice at the end of this chapter, and if you've gone through the end of your chapters, that all, um, done any of the exercises, that you'll notice that this is, there's one difference at the end of this chapter than all the other chapters. There is no vocabulary list. At the end of this chapter, You know why? Because you finished the book. Wow. Congratulations, guys. my God. So let me say, if, uh, if you are interested in further reading or further study, um, Plumber and Merkle put out a, um, um, a 2nd book here. What do they call it? What? The deeper Greek? Yeah, it's called Going Deeper with Greek, something like that. It's green. Looks like this, but it's green. It's thicker. Going deeper. It's an, it's, um, so there's, this is elementary Greek or introductory Greek, and then you have, um, what would like a middle one be called? Not advanced, but intermediate. you. You guys know, my words, I can't always grasp them. Intermediate. It's an intermediate. I don't know if he has lectures for that one online or not. I know there are lectures that exist, because if you took the class at the seminary and you were an online student, then they did have lectures. That book is like this, where he goes through, basically, remember there were certain questions or certain points in the class where we would say, yeah, that's a little more intermediate. That's a little more advanced when you, when you, when you start to explore, okay, the genitive is not just the possessive, but the genitive, um, there's, there's another form called the genitive absolute. You know, there's all these different uses of the nominative or the dative or the genative or the accusative. That book does that, where it takes all of these basic building blocks that we've learned, and answers questions similar to what Jerry just asked. Okay, maybe these are all the different ways that heiress can be used, and these words might favor the heiress because of this or that. And so, if you're interested in that, you know, it's on... I got a copy of it, if you want to look at it, I'm sure you do get on Amazon or wherever. Also want to say, again, throughout this open invitation, I know we all got stuff, we all got life going on, we got the summer to think about it. If anybody would be interested in pursuing a Greek study group together, maybe going through translating through 1st John or something like that, and seeing where it goes, is that something we wanted to continue together as a group or not? If no one says anything to me moving forward, that's cool. We've still accomplished this great feat together. But if anyone is interested in something like that, you know, we could talk about that and see if that would be a Sunday morning option or if we wanted to maybe get together at a different point. And do that. I don't think I have anything else for you. Again, if you want us to keep studying vocab and verbs, I would say spend most of your time on. Anyone else, anyone want to ask anything? We wanna, like, share, reflect, like, what we learned so far? We've got we've got a few minutes. Does anybody with anybody like to reflect on Greek together? Well, you, you brought it up, so... There at least you've got to say. I was just telling Alex, I was like, you know, 'cause he, you know, he's like, you probably didn't retain anything. And I said, no, I definitely did. I said, I definitely know all the alphabet that I didn't know before. And, you know, going through. I think, I think what the biggest takeaway that I got out of it is, like, having the tools, like, knowing which tools to use, and then, like, if I were to go to a Greek verse, being like, this is how I would figure it out, you know? So it's like not having all the vocabulary memorized or even the paradigms I'll memorize, but I could say, okay, this is, I know how to like get myself there, you know, like and work it out and problem solved. And so for me, I think that's the biggest takeaway is like, if I needed to do it, I would have the tools and resources to do it. Whereas, like, before I wouldn't have known anything. You know, it was like I would just try ChatGPT, I didn't trust it or something, you know? But like now it's like I have the tools to go do it myself. You know, it's kind of like you go in the kitchen and you have everything you need to put something together if you have to. You know what everything does, where everything is. And so that to me has been like the most helpful thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for that. That's really helpful. Yeah, duck. Yeah, pick one, I think for me, cause I had weird experience with the class, cause I had to dip out to teach the class and came back and it taken this class in seminary too. But you know, it's like the phrase of like you know, you can give the guy fish or you can teach him how to fish and. I feel like every time I go through this this material I'm always reminded of like. Like Venice is like like like I there's things there's something there's something you get that you don't when you haven't gone through it like if I were to open a Chinese. Textbook, I would like there would be no bearings I'd have where like here. like when I'm looking at it. I'm like. So I know this is you know something I don't know, but I know you know I can use the resources I have to see like it's okay. this word and the semantic ranges is. And given the context, it means this, this or this, and so like you can start to speak under the hood a little bit and understand. So that's always something that I'm encouraged by. Especially when we get into text and do like some of the translations of you start to see in it like. Comes alive to me at least. Yeah. That's good. I just like listening to different sermons or messages, and they reference Greek. Now I know what they're talking about when they throw their words around and stuff, you know? So it's good in that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, brother. That's that's helpful. Anyone else? I think we would text you once, 'cause we watch a lot of debates. Yeah. And a lot of them are like Dr. James White, who talks about the group all the time. Yeah, somehow, I'm like, I don't what that means. like know what mean. Isn't that the best? Yeah, no, and like what, you know, I was having a discussion with a Jehovah Witness and we. Of course, we ended up in John one and he was kind of. He was trying to manipulate the text that you know to basically show Jesus was a deity. And it was interesting. I'm like, no, I'm like, that's, and I'm like, that's not right. And I just just, the tools that from the class was able to just even hear them say it, the way he, the format, I was like, no, something's off, and you're playing with it before I would have not knew that. So it's extremely helpful. Like, not even if you're not even reading it, but hearing it, like, no, that's not you're taking that out of context. context doesn't matter a lot. And so, but I didn't have that just. You know, a few months ago, so it's been extremely, it's very edifying. Yeah, it's not just something that, uh, like you, It's a tool that's extremely valuable. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, brother. I appreciate you saying that. Because I, obviously, I pray that this has been a blessing to you guys. I can tell you to whatever degree it's been a blessing to any of you. It has a hundredfold been a blessing to me. You know, before last spring or early summer, I was telling Bethany, even though we started toying around with this idea of of doing this class. So you know, I haven't taught a class in a while. Obviously, been preaching regularly, but, um, we're so grateful that we have all of our elders, you know, teaching in different formats, and that's a good thing we want that. We don't want to move away from that. But also, I was like, you know, I haven't talked to class in a while and and it'd be really fun to do so. And then thinking about, you know, different ideas of classes to teach and and we landed on this and not sure how that would go, you know? Um, Tev was like, you know, I don't I don't know, man. I don't know how our church will respond to taking a Greek class. And obviously, you know, we've we've had people come and go and whatever else, but, you know, to have this group, even here today, is a testament to, you know, God's grace and the interest of of, you know, we have people who who are interested in digging deeper. In the world, not that people who didn't come in this class aren't, but you know what I mean? Like there's a, it's not like nobody was interested at all. And so that was a blessing and and for me to be able to to teach, to have the opportunity to exercise that gift, that I pray, you know, the Lord, in whatever measure, has given me, to teach. And then also for me to refresh myself again on this, especially because for some of this class, you know, we were still preaching through Romans. And so I was really engaging the Greek text quite a bit with that and writing it out and translating it myself and before we went back to Genesis. And so, um, however, however edified you guys have felt in this, however blessed you, I felt, I can, I can promise you for me, it's been, uh, manifold more. And so I want to say thank you to you guys for for putting up with me and for being interested in this. Uh, because it really has been, uh, this. I dont know what I expected this to be, but I'm super grateful. That we've done this that we've done this together. And this was very, very, very cool experience, so I want to say thank you to you guys for that. Best way to learn a subject is to teach it. You ain't kidding, man. I think you're fighting them. Yeah. That is so true. And that's one of the truest things. And the only way you can make that statement even truer is the best way to learn something you know something is to teach it to children. Because if you can teach something to children, you can, you understand it. And so I, you know, this has, it really has for me to, to, to be refreshed, didn't remind it, and also think, okay, how do I communicate it? You know, like we have the videos, which is a blessing, and I can't communicate it like a guy who's got a PhD in it and teaches it. your eyes because it's true. But also, you know, I want, I want to be, I want you guys, all of us, to be able to have this community together. and have the communication and the experience. And so I'm very, very grateful. Just want to say thank you to you guys, then it's been very fun, very edifying for me, it's been a blessing for me. Well, I do think it's a testament to you as a pastor, too, though. because we've been saying this for years and years and years in different churches, like teaching the languages, learning the languages, doing all this kind of stuff. And the only time that it was ever offered was through like a DVI kind of thing. where you had to pay like 200 bucks just for an elementary class and range for a few weeks. Yeah. It didn't even get remotely in depth. So I think it's just a testament to the church. Like, we harassed you once about it. And next thing you know, people are calling us like, guess who just announced something on a Sunday morning on a Greek class? We may have lost our marbles a little bit. It was fun. But yeah, take it, you know, you have people that talk about it, ask about it, and then you go for it instead of just being like, oh, well, you don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that. And I pray for our whole church, and especially then for our elderboard as the leaders, that's always our disposition. You know, that the humility is there to understand, like, the wisdom of God is found in his church, even to speak wisdom to the leaders, and the pastors, and the elders. And so I'm grateful for you guys to pursue that, and it's been a joy. It really has been a lot of fun, and I feel very edified, very blessed, very. I feel like even though, you know, throughout the months, there were ups and downs, I'm sure, for all of us, 'cause it is learning a language. But to be here today, man, I feel like I feel like it's, you know, given me life and joy. And so I'm appreciating you guys. Well, I think it's when you get to the culmination of any language study, there's always, I always joke with people. Like I that I'm glad I have done it and don't know if I'd want to do it again. And so I was like, Joe, because I'm gonna spend the rest of my life, but we'll learn these things, but there's something about like having that notch on your belt, so to speak, that you can walk around, I'm proud. You know, like the confession talks about the original Bible being written in Greek and Hebrew, and just that that we come out of a long history of of God's faithfulness to point us back to the word. I mean, the word was written in these languages. So that's why it's so important, you know, like teaching children. You know, their day, Calvin was. He'll tell you he has a great outfit memorize, he's gonna, he's gonna probably pull him through a couple or miss him too. But he was trying to teach at least, and I'm like, guys, like, like, like, let's talk about the gospel, you know, like, but there is. They pick it up so much faster so I feel like a week and I'm speaking to myself here too, like we can be a collection of children here. So to teach it to us without the reinforcements of grades and that stuff. This is, I think, the testimony to your faithless. I would be horrified to get up and teach this, and I think in a lot of, I'm taking quite a bit of Greek contemporary too. So I've taken classes and would not feel comfortable getting up and teaching it. And so kudos to you in the effort you put it. I can. Okay, man. That's very kind. Both those people at that table are way smarter than me, so that's a very kind thank you, doc. It's 1020. Anybody else? No. Thanks. What's your passage today? Uh, Galatians 4, 4 through. A. Yeah. To read it in Greek? Ooh, all right. don't know. I was not prepared for that. I actually didn't bring, I mean, pull it up on my logos because I don't have my, I forgot my little blue book today. You know, my one. Oh, thank you, brother. As I fumble through this, don't laugh too much, 'cause I was Bill prepared. Well, you got one of us read it, and then you can read it, and you feel much better at it. If somebody willing to do that? No. No? Okay. It's gonna say, you can gladly... Yes, I'm real curious, back in track. You start speaking in tongues together. He said it was Galatians, what was it? Galatians 4. Um, let me see. I think it's four, four, through... six or eight. Let me pull it up. Galatians 4, 4 through 6. Um, Galatians 4. Let me make sure this is the right thing. Yeah, okay. Already? Galatians 4, 4 through. Actually, four through seven. Galatians 4, 4 through 7. The Spirit says this, Hate, de, elfen, ta, pleroma, to kranu, ex, pestelen, elen, hatheas, tan, piyan, how to, Genamenon, ec, Genamenon, Hapa, naman, henatus, Haba naman, exagara, se, exagara, se, henate, via, thesian, abba, la boman, Hattide, este, hui, vioi, ex, apes, de len, hafayas, tapenuma, tuvio, otu, Estas, cardias, haemon, croxan, abba, ha, pater, hoste, ukati, a, dulas, a la, cuias, e de, guias, kai, clay, ruk, claironamas, dia, theu. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father, so you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. The word of the Lord. Thank you to God. Thank you for that. God, will you close us and pray? And Father, we thank you for a culmination in this class for the efforts of Dr. L putting it together and teaching it in his studies, and for everyone here, who is, uh, who is showed up weekend, uh, week out, and to learn, uh, the Greek language, because we thank you for Trinity Sunday. This, I mean, it seems kind of silly, but there's probably no doctrine that has been more on my mind in the last years I've taught our creeds class and apologetics and midweek study. Then the Trinity and how. Central the trinity is to our very lead and you. Are but one god in three persons and we confess that we don't deny that we review and refute those that state otherwise. God, I pray that you would. Prepare our hearts to go into Trinity Sunday service this morning, uh, to Marvel, uh, at the god that we serve. And I pray that you would prepare Dr. Alice. He preaches to us and as we witness the sacraments, let your gospel be loud this morning. We ask it, Lord Jesus, in your name, when we prayed on the power of your Holy Spirit, Amen.