Matt Slick Bible Study, Basics of Greek

All right, who cares what you guys think? That's right, who cares? All right, everybody.

So Laura's in, I don't know who else is in. Is anybody else in?

How could you be in? There's a zero count, it doesn't make any sense. All right, so what we're gonna do tonight is go through a little bit of Greek and I'm gonna give a

Greek lesson. Oops, here we go, I'm gonna put this on, I almost forgot.

And we're gonna go through a little bit of Greek. This is very, very, very basic Greek. I'm gonna give a rough outline for what

Greek is, nouns, verbs, declensions, conjugations, grammar structures, things like that.

And I'll show you, you'll learn a little bit about English on the way. And what

I'm gonna do here for the feed is I've got an experiment, I'm doing this on my laptop in front of me.

See how I can make it go like that. And I can also do this. Let's see if this is working right.

See, there you go. And I can do this because these are the lessons, the sheets that I have here that we're using.

And there's seven pages. And most of it is just like seven pages, just this.

All right, so can you hear me? Just wanna check, make sure you guys can hear me okay.

In the stream yard and the feed and all that kind of stuff. So, I'm gonna get a confirmation you can hear me and then we'll go on.

Can you hear me? Okay, yes, check. I didn't check the sound on it.

I want your pages. I can email them to you if you want. It's not a big deal, but can you hear me?

Hear you, thank you very much. All right, let's pray. Okay, Lord Jesus, thank you.

Just ask Lord for your mercy and your grace that you would cleanse us of our sins, Lord, that you'd give us an open mind, clean hearts, open hearts, that we would approach your word and the truth of your word with reverence.

And the tools, even the small bit of tools that we're exposed to here, I hope it helps people as they learn a little bit about the language that you chose to have the

New Testament written in. We give you thanks, Lord, and we praise you and just ask for blessing on this.

All right, so let me just tell you that I graduated from seminary 30 years ago and I had, up to that point,

I had four and a half years of Greek, three years in college and a year and a half in, excuse me, three years in seminary, a year and a half in college.

And in college, we studied classical Greek. In the New Testament, though, it's written in what's called koine.

It's called common Greek. And so classical Greek is more uppity kind of Greek, a lot more complicated and more difficult.

And I think, but koine is quite difficult as well in certain areas.

So what we're gonna do is just do this. We're gonna just go one thing at a time and you have your sheets and we'll go through this.

Just wanna let you guys know that I'm quite rusty at Greek. What I do use on a regular basis, though, is my

Bible programs. And I know what passive is, active, perfect, pluperfect.

I know about declensions. I know about dative and accusative. Way to go over this stuff. So I can read these things.

I can look at tools that'll tell me what parts of speech things are, sentences, and I can go to lexicon.

So I can, you know, I have a lot of experience with that. And so the tools that I've learned have leveled out at a certain level to keep me good enough to what

I need to do. But I'm not teaching Greek. So I don't need to know a whole bunch more. All right, so what

I'm gonna do here is just introduce you to the Greek alphabet. And I'll read the letters.

It's pretty easy. There are 22 letters in Greek. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, p, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, kip, xi, omega.

And those are the letters. And on the right, you'll see how they're pronounced. And it's not hard to learn these letters because, and incidentally, you'll notice in the left column that they're capitals, in the right column, they're smaller.

So we call the left column unciels, and the right column are called minuscules. And some biblical

Greek manuscripts are written entirely, for example, in unciels. And so that's what

I understand anyway. So that's it. So the first thing you gotta do when you learn

Greek is learn the alphabet. And you'll see, like, alpha, beta, if you look at the right column, because most of it is, you'll ever read is in the right column.

So you see an A, a B, that's pretty easy. The Y -looking thing is a G, you gotta learn that.

That weird D -looking thing, it's not too far from a D than an E. And that Z -looking thing is a zeta.

And this is the one that's kind of weird, that N is really an eta, and it's the long sound of A.

And if you go down to, go up to epsilon, it's an

E, and it's eh, but eta is the long A sound. And it's always the long

A sound whenever that eta occurs. Theta, so the theta is TH sound combined.

And then the Yoda, which is an I, a K, kappa, lambda, it doesn't take much to figure that one out.

The Mu, that's an M, and you kind of not see that from the English. And the

V is actually an N. And then the Xi, it's pronounced

K, you know, K -S, like Xi. And then the O is Omicron, pi, you guys shouldn't have any problem with the

P. The R is a P in English, but it's called a row, R sound.

And the sigma, notice it has two, it says this or that. And the reason it does that is because the first one is the form of the

S or the sigma that occurs inside of a Greek word. And the final, it's called the final, occurs when it's the last letter.

So the agathos, we'll go into it later, has an ending with that long, the

S that we're familiar with, but inside of the word, it's that first one. The tau is a

T, oops -a -lon, oo. Phi, that's a phi, the

F -P -H sound, or the F. Ki, it's like the kappa. And psi,

P -S, is how, you know, ps, lips, and omega. Now, so you'll see in Revelation, I forgot the verse where Jesus says he's the alpha and the omega.

And so now you understand more. I love saying things like more better. You'll understand more, even more betterer, why, as said, it's the first and the last, the alpha and the omega, and that's what's going on there.

And so if you guys wanna learn how to read, read, that's, I should say, read to pronounce.

It's not that hard. You'd actually be surprised. Like the word baptism is B -A -P -T, that's the root, or beta, alpha,

P, tau, B -A -P -T. And so you can see bapt, baptizo, baptismos, and you can see the bapt root in different words.

You go, that's the baptism. It's simple. And, but then it gets hard.

So let's go to the next sheet. Okay, and I'm gonna move it to the next sheet over here.

All right, let's see. I hope this is visible on the screen.

Let's see. Where's the, oh,

I know what I gotta do this way. Okay, so I'm giving you a sentence in English. So here we go. Wow, Frank threw his son's ball to me.

I picked that sentence to kind of devise that sentence to show you different things. Wow is what we call the vocative.

It's an exclamation. Wow. Frank is what we call the subject.

But we, and when we do Greek, you learn this kind of vocabulary. You learn it's the nominative.

And that means it's the subject of a sentence. So my wife, Anique, she speaks

French and she studied French like this. So I could say to her, I could say to others, I could say, in your language, what's the present active indicative, first person singular of, and then give the verb.

And they'll go, and I'll know. And so you have to, when you study

Greek and you study languages like this, not so much Spanish, when I learned Spanish, you don't have to do all that, but you do perfect, you do past, you do present tense, things like that.

But in Greek, you really do it a lot. Oh man. Anyway, so wow,

Frank, through, that's the verb, that shows action. His son's, that shows possession, that's the genitive.

It's called the genitive. That's what it's called. And through his son's ball, that's a direct object, accusative, to me is the dative or the indirect object.

So the object being spoken of is ball and who it's thrown to is the indirect object.

So wow, Frank, through his son's ball to me. So we have vocative, nominative, genitive, accusative, and dative.

These are all nouns. And here's the thing, is that there's only one verb in this sentence.

Now some sentences can have multiple verbs and stuff like that, and that's fine. But just notice one single verb, but it's the nouns.

The nouns are what more or less give you trouble for a while. Then the verbs rear their ugly heads.

And I learned there's a rule in Greek that whenever the dative of means is behind a genitive, genitive absolute, it always to be translated as an absolute this or that on Tuesday.

But on Wednesday, it changes, especially if you're facing south, then it's a new rule.

And that's what it was like. And I will just tell you this, that in seminary, the seminary

I went to was the fifth most difficult graduate school in the entire country of the United States at the time.

And so I had a friend named Gary, and we're in Greek class, 18 ,000 rules, you gotta know for one thing.

And Gary snapped. And Gary stood up in class and, greek, and we just sat around.

And the professor just was nodding, and then he walks out.

And the professor just goes, okay, so on page 14, he just kept going, right? And so afterwards,

I talked to Gary. He's a friend of mine. I go, Gary, what happened? He goes, I don't know, it was just too much for me.

I couldn't handle it. I went, well, you know, no one thought anything. They get it, because it's incredible deep study.

About three or four weeks later, I snapped. Greek and the whole

Greek, like that, the Greek, this and that, and the seminary, this church, and I storm out.

Gary told me later, he goes, okay, page 18, you turn to look, they didn't care, right? And so I went to apologize to the professor.

He goes, it's okay, it happens. He says, you're not the only one. And he says, yeah, it was very grueling.

It was very, very grueling. We would get these tests, and it would be a sentence, and it would be, parse this word, relate it to this or that, and what's the rule?

What are we talking about? It's like that sometimes. And so he just did the best.

We passed, and it wasn't that cruel. But we went through step by step, and it was just a lot to learn.

It was a fire hose. Then you went to the Hebrew class. Instead of going left to right, you go right to left, and a different set of things.

You know, a furtive patah, a silent shawah. I discovered, though, that no one ever actually spoke

Greek back then. Oh, no one ever did, no. What I discovered was they invented it to torture people in the future.

That's what I discovered. And these guys are sitting around a campfire going, no, no, no, no, don't make it regular, make it irregular, and do it like this.

This will really, you know, freak them out. Hey, that's a good idea. Stercoulias, which is the god of feces in Greek.

So, okay, anyway. So, number three here, nouns decline.

Verbs conjugate, I go, you go, he goes. But nouns decline. We have a little bit of declension in English.

Actor, actors, actress, actresses. Declension in a noun is a change of the form of the noun.

And it carries with it, in English, not so much, but it carries gender, sometimes gender and number.

Boy, boys, table, tables. It's a very short declension, but there is no such thing as a male table or a female table.

But in Spanish, you do have gender for basically all objects. And so, in Spanish, you have gender and plurality, or it's called number, or gender and number.

So, nouns decline, and we'll get into that stuff too, but nouns do what's called, have the nominative or the genitive or the dative or the accusative, or they can have the vocative.

And like I said, number four, they can be masculine and feminine. They can also be neuter, and they can be singular and plural.

Now, if you will go down there and you will look, and let me get this, scroll this up a little bit, and you look at this thing here,

I copied this from a book, all right? So, autos is he.

So, look at the singular, S -I -N -G, N -O -M is nominative, and it's masculine.

So, autos is nominative, masculine, singular. If you go down below, autoi, masculine, plural, nominative.

So, if you go to singular nominative, it's he. But if you go, say, autoi, which is plural nominative, it's they, and that word, in its form, functions as the subject.

Or if you threw the ball to them, it would be the bottom one there in the masculine column, autois, which is the dative, threw the ball to them.

The ball would be the accusative. I threw it to him, no, excuse me, let's stick with this.

Autois would be the dative, to them. But you could have, go just straight over to the right, autois, that's to them, but that means females.

And autois, and here's a fun part, that is to them, neuter. But notice that autois, neuter, and autois in masculine are the same spelling, so it can be masculine or it can be neuter.

And then you determine which one it is by looking at the context of other stuff. And so, notice how many forms there are of the single word he, which could take singular or plural.

We have four times three, which is 12, times two rows, which 24 different ways the word can appear.

24, the word the does this. The word good, the word man, the word bad, all of them do this.

And this is just one kind of declension. I'm not gonna get into other ones. You have other patterns, and you gotta learn these.

And yeah, you gotta learn them.

Okay, so this is what, you go into class, and you read this, you go to your assignment, you go to book,

I mean, you go home, you start reading the book, you get the alphabet memorized. And then you start doing things like osuon, that's how we used to do it.

We'd go nominative, genitive, accusative, or dative, accusative, this does it differently. In our manual we have, we'd go in a masculine singular, we'd go osuon, it would be, they have osuon, but we would do it the other way, osuon, oyusuon, oyusuon, and you go like that.

And you'd just do these different declensions, and you just say the words, because it was easier to remember patterns of sounds, and then write them out.

That's the fourth one, I mean, just the, you learn all kinds of tricks to get stuff for the exams. After a while, you just got it.

But it was really a lot of work. So that's just the word hymn, and we're gonna go through some stuff about John 3, 16 later.

Now, on page three, so let me come over here, page three, verbs conjugate, all right?

And so, verbs have tense, voice, and mood. So let's go over those.

Tense deals with time, and in Greek, we have the aorist, the present, the future, the perfect, the pluperfect, and there are variations of these.

These are the basics, this is what it is. Aorist, for example, I ate. It's an action that's in the past.

Now, aorist in Greek is a little bit different than the past in English.

It's a little bit different. It has an element of kind of an action going on in the past, but not.

The present, I eat, is, look down there at number six, a participle.

So if a present is I eat, participle is I am eating. If the present tense,

I eat, is a number one, and the participle, I am eating, is number 10, then in our equivalent of English, it has a slight ongoing action, maybe like a two.

The value of present tense, a little bit of an ongoing action kind of a thing in it, not a big deal.

Anyway, basically, aorist is I ate. Past tense, present tense, future,

I will eat. The perfect tense, I have eaten. So you could also say,

I have been eating, which is a perfect participle. I have been eating.

So here we have the perfect, I have eaten. It's a past action that's continuing in the past and continuing in the present.

I have eaten, doesn't say I stopped, I have eaten. But sometimes we mean it as though I've already eaten, but we'll say

I already have. But we do use it like that. But keep it simple.

The pluperfect, I had eaten, it is an action in the past, absolutely completed in the past.

There's a terminus in it. Now that can happen in the perfect also, but it has that idea of its continuation possibility in the present.

And with a participle, then it's most definitely, I have been eating, which means I still am. So you can have a perfect with a participle.

And you can have a pluperfect with a participle. A participle is an ING form.

I am eating. Action is ongoing in the present. Expresses both verb and adjective.

For example, the eating of the apple. So the eating is a noun form of the verb.

So pluperfect, I had eaten. So let's look at voice, active, passive, and middle.

Active voice, I hit. The subject performs the action.

I hit, I'm doing the hitting. Passive, I was hit. The subject receives the action.

In the middle voice, I hit myself. The subject is affected by his own action.

And we have all these in English. We're just not used to, we don't talk about them like that.

We just learn the language, we move on, you know, and stuff like that.

Now, I've told you guys this before, but I'm gonna say it again. Look at the pluperfect above.

I was at a computer store 20 years ago, Southern California, and I was talking to a guy.

He had an accent, and he was from like Romania or Yugoslavia, I forgot which country, but over there.

And he'd been here for two years at the time, and his English was pretty good. And I said, you know, where are you from?

Because I could tell your accent. He says, oh, from wherever. I said, okay, let me ask you, what's the most interesting thing you've learned about America or something that stands out?

Like big cars, big roads, or rude people, or whatever. And he said, the pluperfect tense.

And I knew what it meant right away, because nobody knows, you know, she's a Greek student. And he said, the pluperfect.

I said, what? I said, I know what that is. And I said, what about it? He says, we don't have it in our original language.

I said, you're kidding me. And we talked about the pluperfect tense for a while. It was a lot of fun. And I said, how could you not have the pluperfect?

He goes, I know. And he told me it took two months before he understood what the pluperfect was in English, before the concept went to him.

He goes, oh, I get it. And then he immediately recognized, why don't we have it in our language?

And yeah, there's, yeah, with my daughter, we're here speaking Japanese. She could tell you there's these weird things about Japanese too.

Okay, so anyway, I went to active, the passive, and middle. Then we have what's called mood, the imperative.

Eat, it's a command. Exhortation, expresses possibility. It's a command to do something.

The indicative, it's just presented as being real by the author, okay? It's just a, it means it's happening, it's a reality, it's an actuality.

But the subjunctive, however, is not so. It's expressing possibility, not actuality.

Indicative demonstrates actuality with a subjunctive, possibility.

So he said to them, let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby so that I may preach.

That's in the subjunctive in the Greek, Mark 138. That I may preach there also, for that is what

I came for, that I may. It's in the subjunctive. And we, that's what it is in English, it's subjunctive.

It's expressing an intended action and possibility, but it may or may not occur. Okay? And optative, may it be according to your word.

It's more uncertain than the subjunctive. It shows intention of desire and a possible action.

It's like the subjunctive, except weaker than the subjunctive. The subjunctive is an intention in the possibility.

The optative, well, hopefully it'll be like that. And we just don't know.

And so when we do verbs, we parse a verb.

So I've talked to people online and they say, I've been studying Greek. And if it's a

Christian, I don't hassle them. If it's an atheist, I know Greek. I go, really? You study

Greek? Yeah. And they'll say, I've had people say to me, that's why I know you don't know what you're talking about,

Matt. I said, okay, maybe I don't. I don't know everything. Lots of things I gotta learn about Greek. And I said, but can you parse ego, a, me for me?

Which is basic Greek. And none of them have ever been able to do it.

So ego is simply the word I, but a, me is from the verb to be. And ego, a, me is

I, I am, literally. And I am would be the present, active, indicative first person singular.

And so if I ask someone, can you parse that, present, active, indicative, first person singular? I go, yeah, you've had

Greek. If they were to say to me, present tense, first person, and I believe it's active, what's the rest of the stuff?

I know they've studied it, okay? And I can look at stuff and go, what the heck is that again?

And I don't remember a lot of stuff. So I use my Logos program, which is sometimes why on the radio

I'll say, when people ask me something, I'll read the Greek. I'm reading what the parsing tool is.

And I'll tell them, I'm reading the parsing tool. I'm reading what the Bible program says. I don't have this memorized. I don't want people to think

I'm smarter than I am. So then that's what I'll do. So that's what that is.

Now let's go to page four. This'll be lots of fun. Okay, so this is

John 3, 16. And we're gonna go through this slowly, all right? And I think maybe

I can make this bigger for the screen. Let's see if I can do this.

Yeah, I can over here. And hey, go away, hide.

There we go. Oh, you slime bag. Okay, do that. There we go.

Let's see how that looks. Come on, there we go. Okay, so I hope you guys can see that pretty well on what we're doing here.

Let me see. I'm still here? Okay. Now. What?

All right. So what we're gonna do is you'd notice that I was able to get this on one sheet and it's pretty balanced.

It kind of worked out nicely. So what we're gonna do is go through this. I'm gonna show you this. So John 3, 16,

I picked because everybody knows it. And it's got a lot of verbs, a lot of nouns. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, yes, that all the believing in him not shall perish but have eternal life.

So let me read it in the Greek, pronouncing it. Gar hatheas autos agapeisen ton kasmon huste, edoken ton monogone ton huion ina paschopistuon eis auton me apoletai ala eke aounion zone, zoen.

That's what it sounds like. Okay, I'm not very good at pronouncing it, but okay. So you'll see,

I was reading the Greek. Actually right underneath it, it says, gar hatheas autos apegesen. You can see the transliteration underneath it.

That's what's called a transliteration. So gar hatheas. Now also you may have noticed or may not have noticed in the

Greek alphabet when I gave you the list, the letter H is not there.

They don't have an H sound in a letter. So what they do is look at for God, look underneath the word

God and has the O which is actually an omicron and see the little comma above it.

That's called a rough breathing mark. And it goes like this, it goes this way.

And that means the H sound. That's what it means. That's how they make the H sound is it's called a rough breathing mark over the first letter.

Okay, hatheas autos. And notice loved. Notice the opposite direction, egepesen, egepesen.

Okay, I'll show you that word egepesen. The first letter is an eta with a smooth breathing mark over it.

There's no H sound. And then the G, which is a second letter. And then you see the A with a little accent mark.

So it's egepesen, egepesen, egepesen.

So you get the word egepesen. So how about pronounce it egepesen? Someone coming in? Is it?

We'll see what it is. Hey, here's a, hey, how are you guys doing?

Where's the other? Oh, here we go right here. You wanna hand that to them? We have a little, we're on, going through John 3, 16.

I went over declension and conjugation a little bit with a tense voice mood, active voice, middle voice, passive voice, operative, subjunctive, went through stuff.

See, she knows some Greek. She's had. You were? Oh, you were? Okay, nevermind then.

So here's the lessons. There's the stuff right there if you guys want it. So now we're good over John 3, 16. And I'm just showing them a little bit of stuff.

No, as long as it's latched, the cats are upstairs. So the first line is in English, all right?

The second line is the actual Greek. Now I took out the line that shows what's called the basic or the limbo or the root, what it is, what the actual word form is.

Like it might be to be, might be the form, but it might be in the form of was, I was.

But anyway, I took that out because it was confusing. And then the fourth line, this is what

I'll do online or I'll be on the radio or I wanna do my research. So for example, four in that fourth line,

C -L -X. All I do in Logos Bible program is put my mouse over it and a little window pops up, conjunction logical explanatory.

I put my mouse over, now notice it says ha -theos. And ha is the first word, theos is the second word.

And we're just gonna go with the second one, N -N -S -M, nominative, masculine, singular.

Nominative is the subject, masculine is the gender, singular is the number. And so, this is an adverb, loved, for example.

It's the aorist active indicative. Aorist is past tense, active is the voice that it's occurring, that God is the one.

See, here's how it works. God is the one who is performing the action of loving. So that's why it's in the active voice and the verb goes back to the noun.

So for God so loved, it's pretty simple. And it's third person singular. So first person singular is

I am, and second person singular is he is, third person singular is he, she, or it is.

And that's a bad verb because it's an irregular one to use in English. The, there's the word the, and notice, see who says the?

God so loved the world, the world, right? That's the word tan, okay? And that's an accusative form of the, what's called a definite article, the word the.

But go back over to the word God, for the God, that also, that ha, that o, is also the word the.

The same word, different declension, that's all it is. So the in a word

God is nominative, which mas, mas, excuse me, matches theos, which is nominative.

And then the, which is in the accusative, and look at this, the word world, if you look down, is also in the accusative.

Notice the O -N ending, or it looks like an O -V, but it's actually a O -N, Aramacon, new.

See how they match, the endings? And so you go, oh, well, they're related. It's not that hard.

It can get hard. Oh, man. But we, you know, it's actually possible to learn the basic level of Greek so that you can get around.

Just get around and take a couple, three months of, you know, once a week study, twice a week study, and you can get around.

All you gotta do is learn how to read the alphabet and then just memorize some vocabulary and a couple of things about some words, like oy, it's plural masculine, and os is plural thing.

There are different declensions, there are different forms, you won't get them all. But, you know, you'd go, oh. I can remember in college, the first time when

I was able to do that, I took my Greek text to a church and they're preaching, and I followed along in the

Greek, and I could understand what was being said in the Greek all the way. And it was awesome.

It's awesome the first time it happens, right? It's like, yeah, I can see it. I've talked to my wife, like, hey, you know what?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, I bet that means this. She's going, okay, whatever you say. And it was a lot of fun.

And then you start seeing things in the Greek that they can't, they don't say in English. And we'll get to that as an example in here.

Okay, so the word that, okay, it's just a conjunction. He gave, so already you know it's gonna be an aorist, hopefully, in the past, right?

And so the V -A -A -I -3 -S. So it's the aorist, active, it's a verb, but the

V's a verb. A for aorist, the second A is active, the I is indicative, third person singular.

He gave. His only, tan monogone, it's the article, accusative, singular, masculine.

And tan, and you can see stuff in there, and hooyan is, I always like the word hooyan. And hooyas, that means son,

S -O -N. I just like the word. And my favorite Greek word, however, is splognizomai.

Splognizomai, compassion. That's a word for compassion. Guess what the Greek word for pearls is?

Throw your pearls before a swine? Margaritas. Margaritas are biblical, okay?

They're biblical, okay? Of course, you're supposed to give them to pigs, but I guess that's what it is.

But margaritas, I was reading through the Greek a couple of years ago, I was going through, so I went, hey, margaritas.

Good, anyway. So it's only begotten. Now, I'm gonna show you something about the word only begotten.

Now, look at the, in the English, okay, the third line, it says tan monogone, all right?

Tan is just the word the. So we're gonna look at the second word, monogone. So mono is only, and gene comes from geno, to beget.

So when you have, remember this, and if I don't quite get it right and you remember, then okay, tell us.

But when you have two words, and you have a word that ends with a vowel that is right up to a word that begins with a vowel, depending on the situation, they can change into what's called, it's because of diphthong.

So you have these rules you gotta learn where when you have this before that, but after that, then it becomes an

O. Then it becomes an A, then it becomes a, whatever. You gotta know these. But, sorry, long since gone.

And, except after C, yeah, the neighboring way. That's true. So it's not the same, but there are these weird rules that apply.

And so monogenes is only, and begotten from geno to beget.

But I would remember in Greek that the word for unique is also monogenes. So it's a play on words to some degree here, because if I remember correctly,

I remember from a long time ago, the spelling for monogeno, only and begotten, and monogenes, unique, when the word unique is the same spelling as when mono and geno will come together and a diphthong forms, they become the same spelling.

And so that's what's going on here. So unique, only begotten, or it could be legitimately as unique, but we know that he's begotten of a father, which is why you say begotten.

You could say he's only and unique begotten. That's loose, but you could get away with it.

Because if you understand what that play is on that word, you could say that, but we don't really wanna do that, but you could, okay?

So son is tanhuyon, all right? And it's the accusative, all right?

The accusative case, and that all the believing in him, all the believing.

So it's pas hapistoun. So all the believing is what it literally says in the

Greek. It does not say whosoever. Let me move this up a little bit, okay?

There we go, sorry about that. So the word for whosoever or whoever in Greek is hos.

It's an omega with a rough breathing mark over it, and a sigma, hos. So it means whoever.

It exists, it's used in the Bible, New Testament, but that's not the word used here.

What it's saying, is something else coming? No? What it's saying is the only begotten, all the believing one.

Because what it literally says here is all the, and notice what it's saying.

All the, which is singular, and it's masculine. Nominative means it's the subject, right?

Okay. And then what we have here is believing. Notice what it is. It's a present active participle, the believing one.

And it's singular. So it's literally believing, but in the singular form.

Notice it's nominative of all the, pas ha, all the, is nominative singular.

Believing is also nominative singular, but it's a participle, ing word. All the believing.

Now, because it's singular, we say all the believing, but it's in singular, one.

So all the one believing. How do you, you don't talk like that in English. So all the one believing, we don't, that's just not how we talk.

So they translate it as whoever. Unfortunately, what happens is people will say to me, and I'm a

Calvinist, and they'll say, well, when it says all the believing, or excuse me, when it says whosoever, it means they have the free will choice to be able to make a choice for God, because that's what whosoever means.

And they don't realize that's not what the Greek is saying. And even if it did, that's not what it means.

It just says whosoever. It doesn't say how they come to believe, only that they are. And this is the same thing.

All that believe, but it's literally that all the believing one, that's literally what it's saying.

All the believing, but it's literally singular, one. Because all the is singular, pos, ha, are both pos, the two words, right?

Nominative, singular, masculine, both of them. And pistoun in the, is a noun form, is also singular nominative, but it's a participle.

Remember a participle is I -N -G, eating, walking, going, okay? So God so loved the world that that gave his only son that all the one believing is what it's literally saying, or all the believing one.

That's what it says, but we don't talk like that, so we say whosoever, and that's fine. But if we're in a

Greek class and you translate it literally as all the one believing, that's fine, that's correct.

But if you said also whoever, that's fine, or whosoever, that's fine too.

In, which is the word ace, into, it's pronounced ace. Him, auton, okay, it's accusative.

And in him, believing in him, right? Man, there's just so much of this stuff.

Look at this, something here. And look at this, more stuff too, okay, yeah.

Anyway, so we know that him, for example, let me move this up a little bit for them, okay?

Okay, there we go. The word auton, him, is accusative, which is the direct object.

And so it has a, because it's a direct object, you have to understand what it means in English with a direct object, which is why

I went initially with that sentence to show you what a direct and indirect object are.

You know, wow, he threw the ball to the sun.

You know, and so you have these different, one's a direct object, one's a dative, one's accusative. And so when you know in Greek, so who's over there?

What's going on? The car's still closed. Oh no, no, it's okay, just someone coming up? No, there are doors and stairs being closed and shut.

Oh, okay, okay, no biggie then, okay. And so the reason

I'm showing you this and spending a little bit of time is not that we have to have tests on this, but if you understand how the verbs and nouns are constructed and that you can parse them and you can identify their parts, their structure, then what you can do is you can match them inside of sentences and structures and things like that, and you can make more sense of what's going on.

So in English, we'll say, I went to the store, and you don't say,

I went the store too, okay, like Yoda would talk, but you can do that in Greek because the form of a noun, this is a general rule.

You can switch it around, not always, but you can switch them around and you still understand the meaning, but sometimes when you switch it around, it's for an emphasis on something.

It's a very powerful language, very powerful language. Incidentally, which language, present language on earth has the most words?

And it's one language has over 600 ,000 words and the next most popular vocabulary word of a language has like 150 ,000 words or maybe 200, something like that.

What's that? English, that's correct. Yeah, it's the langua franca. Anyway, trivia, not just an adverb negative and shall perish, from Apollumi, but it's a peletae and a, okay, a paletae, and that's an aorist middle subjunctive third person singular, aye, aye, aye.

So you're in class and that you're talking like this, you're talking three languages simultaneously,

English, subjunctive middle third person singular, that's a whole nother language, okay?

And then you're doing Greek. You have to relate these three things simultaneously while you're talking and making sense of things.

And then you get out of your first period class and then you go home and you cry in your pillow for a while because it only gets worse from there.

And then you go to your Hebrew class and you come out and most people's IQs drop about 50 % at that point.

So eke, oh, but, the word but there, sorry, shall perish, but there's two, well, yeah, we'll just leave it at that.

But Allah, okay, you see the two L's, Allah, and have, present active indicative, present active subjunctive, sorry, third person singular, and eternal,

Ionian, adjective, that's what it is, accusative singular, feminine,

I think is interesting, and life, accusative singular feminine, which is life.

What's that? J, what's the J, J -A -S -F, what's the J? J just stands for adjective.

Because they couldn't use the same, yeah, they'd use different letters at certain times for things.

J -A -S. Present active, A means accusative. Yeah, the J just means adjective. Now, what are these numbers underneath?

If you go, if you look, it's like here, like under the word life, it's 2222, and then 23 .88.

The word eternal is 166 and 67 .96. Well, those are the

Strong's lexicon length numbers and the Luinita lexicon.

So if you go to the next page, the Luinita, Luinita, go to the next page.

A lexicon is an alphabetical list of words. Oh, let me get this over here. An alphabetical list of words that appear in a text, not all words in a language, though.

A lexicon, like the Greek lexicon of the New Testament, only has those words that appear in the New Testament, mostly.

But what it will often do is show you words that are related to it that might be used in a classical

Greek author someplace. And so this form of the word occurs in that text over there, not in the

Bible, but it'll make a note. So lexicon, it can be quite long. So what

I have here is the Strong's lexicon, it's the most famous one, and that's a paragraph, and that's about a fifth of what they had on that word.

And the Luinita, same thing, and it's just another lexicon.

And so a lexicon is a dictionary alphabetically listed with words that occur in that text, usually along with other usages of it, contextually analyzed.

This is, it's a lot of work. So lexicons are incredibly valuable. So I might, if I'm doing a sermon or if I'm writing an article and I need to get into the

Greek, like I might look up agapao, love, agape, right?

That means divine love, right? Well, I can take the number 25, I can go into my

Bible program, and there's a little code I put in there in a certain place, put it in, and it shows me every single occurrence of the word agape and its forms, its declensions, that occur in the entire

New Testament. Just like that, within one second. Boom. Incredibly valuable.

And as you go through it, you learn, like in Luke 11, 43, I think it is, the Pharisees agape -ed their high seats.

Wait a minute, agape means divine love, right? In that context, it does, in John 3, 16, but not in Luke 11, 43, when the

Pharisees loved their high seats. And you go, oh, I didn't know that.

So it becomes quite interesting to see things like that in the Greek. And you can see, if you read there, you'll see some stuff.

You guys in the, watching online, are you enjoying this, making sense?

And I've had four and a half years of this. And, oh man.

I remember sometimes the professor would be saying something on the, and you're just going, when is it gonna stop?

You love what you, you know, I'm grateful for being able to study it, but they get into such incredible things.

I remember once in college, there was a guy named Darnitz. He was a professor, he taught

Greek. Oh no, that wasn't in college. That was a different one. Sorry, it was in seminary.

And our professor, great guy, he was a little bit late to class.

So, you know, it's a lot of tension. You gotta blow off a little steam sometimes.

So I think I went up to the board and started writing boobs,

I mean, bubentai, excuse me, bubentai. That's the Greek word for, we make up something stupid, you know?

And then lementai, you know, stupidify or something like, it was all these things and we did it in Greek.

The professor walks in and I went, uh -oh. And he saw what we were doing and I just like, oh crap.

And it's a graduate level work, right? And so I just, he goes, he looks, he smiles.

You know, he's a cool guy. He walks over and he takes the noun, the verb root and then starts conjugating it or doing all this stuff.

He goes, now that would be over here like this. And he made a lesson out of it. It was awesome. Okay, he made a, you know, remember bubentai we put in there, bubentai.

What does that mean? And so he did this and he just did this lesson on it.

Now, because of that, there was this, I'm like, oh man, you know, he was good. He knew his stuff, it was great.

All right, now, so let's get to this little thing at the bottom of page five.

All right, now, like I said, I copied it from the book that I had listed on the first page. So this is one of the basic Greek verbs, luo, l -u -o, l -u -o, luo, and you'll notice the first two letters are the root.

And the last, from there, after those two letters are the, what they call the, not the prefix, the suffix.

Right, that changes, there's a word for it, but it changes, the form changes.

So luo, l -u -o, l -u -o, l -u -o -men, l -u -o -te, l -u -o -sen. It's like that in Spanish, hablo, hablas, hable.

That's I speak, just like this, hablo, hablas, hable. Very similar to Greek, hablamos, but they'll say luo -men.

And we actually say, hablaron, which is, here, l -u -o -sen.

There's similarities, so you'd actually be at an advantage if you spoke Spanish naturally to learning

Greek. And it did help me, because I took a lot of Spanish and could speak some of it, and so when

I was in Greek, it helped. What's that? Do you know the song? What song?

O -a -s -a -a -men -u -te -u -si. Yeah, I don't know that one. You've taken

Greek too? She's teaching. Oh, she's teaching, you're teaching them, okay. No, we didn't do that, we went, o -a -s -a -a -men -u -te -u -si.

That's what we did, we just, ting, ting, ting, and we'd just match them, you know, three and three, and we knew what they were.

YouTube can't make songs out of all of that, so. That works, oh, wow. I do remember this, though, a little side note.

In seminary, we're getting ready for our last exams, and there was just so much to learn.

And my friend Gary, and I'd read a book on memorization, and so he and I are sitting there, and we were literally going like this.

I remember the basic thing, just a part of it was, the bird flew onto a post, and then knocked over the corn that fell into a cat that knocked over a chair.

And this is how we're memorizing for our exams, because each something meant something.

You know, the cat might, you know, the whiskers of the five, five whiskers, you know what I mean, five whiskers, whatever it was, we had it all figured out.

And he and I are doing this, and this guy is listening to us.

He goes, what are you guys doing? We're studying for the exam. He goes, no, you're not. He says, yes, we are. And I said, come over here,

I'll explain it. And so each thing meant something, okay? And I said, well, here, like this series, because you remember the order, and I said, this means this, means that, like that, and he memorized it just like that.

He goes, it works. So he started studying with us for the exam.

We studied for two hours, we went over this. We took the exam, and he told us later, he goes, the only reason I passed is because I studied with you guys for two hours.

He told us that afterwards. And it was the weirdest thing, but we would do these, it's called mnemonics.

Because basically, studying all this stuff in a graduate level, you are desperate to fight, wait, to memorize 8 ,000 things, because you've got, and then as soon as you memorize it, it's okay to forget about it, you can go on to another class.

And I remember during my Hebrew exams, Hebrew kicked my rear, just flat out did.

I would, my professor let me do this. I went to the library, and I had the exam, and I put the exam upside down, because he trusted me, not a problem.

And I was, I had my book open, going through the paradigms in Hebrew. And, which are just these forms like this, like at the bottom of this page, you know?

And, do this for a bit. And so, I would go over the, read the paradigms, read the paradigms, read the paradigms, and then write them out, write them out, write them out.

And then, the deal was, I would take everything I'd just written out, crumble it up, put it in the trash, turn my book, you know, close my book, and then

I could take a piece of paper and write my paradigms out, as many as I can remember, so that I could then get the job of parsing correct.

Because you had to identify the parsing of the verbs and the nouns, things like that. And I passed because of it. I mean, it was just, it's a deluge of information, at least in that school.

And we didn't go to school on Mondays, we had Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. On Tuesday, if I remember correctly, we got our

Greek assignment, was learn the alphabet, learn 10 words, we're gonna start translating on the second day of class. Same thing in Hebrew.

Went to whatever it was class, and that's where I found out I had two 20 -page papers due in three months.

And then that was just a second class, you know? And a third or fourth, second, yeah. Then you go to the next class, and you just, you go home, you go, your wife says, how are you doing?

I don't know. I got a lot to study.

And then the assignment is, read these 18 ,000 books by Friday. I think it's

Wednesday afternoon. And we'll have outline courses on them and video presentations that you're gonna have to do.

And it feels like that. And then you got foreigners, Koreans, who are still learning

English and getting A's on everything. They knew how to study, yeah.

Uh -huh. Yeah, yeah, I remember the

Koreans. They, only the elite got there, and they knew, they've been raised with the issue of studying.

They're also 10 years younger than me. So they had a, that was a substantial advantage. There was actually times in the homework assignments and stuff where I just said,

I'm done. It's not gonna study anymore because it's not, nothing else is going in. Nothing else is sticking.

I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna go play tennis, or I'm gonna go throw rocks at birds. I'm gonna do something.

No, because it won't do me any good right now, you know? And throwing through rocks at birds, yeah.

So one day I get to class and a guy's Hebrew text, not the Bible, but the

Hebrew grammar, is all torn up, ripped up, come apart, and it's got rubber bands around it.

And I said, dude, man, what happened? And I've been, it's a friend of mine. He'd been over his apartment many times.

And he said, well, because you've got a picture of this. Stairs, his room right there at the bottom of the stairs was a bookcase.

You have bricks with the wood and then you put your books on there. And up there, it's just a straight line down.

And he's up there studying. And he said he was just studying. I'll tell you another thing that a friend of mine did on Rain Man.

But anyway, so he was the Chinese guy. Anyway, so Ken, my friend, he was explaining what happened to his book.

He said, well, I was studying Hebrew and I just decided to throw my

Hebrew manual down the stairs. So I did. And it hit the bookcase and it tore the page or tore the cover a little bit because he went down and got it.

And he goes, so I decided to throw it back up. So I threw it back up there. And then

I went up there and I decided to throw it down again. And I did this for like 10 minutes. I felt better.

And I put rubber bands around it and I kept studying. I'm like, gotcha, no problem. And then we had,

I had a friend I used to study with. And one day we're studying and he just sits there and he looks at looking at me.

He goes, we're studying Hebrew and Greek. He just goes for like 20 seconds.

Then he picks up his book. He starts studying again. Nobody would say like, you're weird. We go, it's what you did.

All right. And so then we had a friend named Eisen.

We called him Iceman and he had a heavy but good enough English Chinese accent.

And he was great. He was just, he was hip. He was cool. Everybody loved him. And I spoke Chinese.

He and his wife, Chinese, spoke Mandarin or whatever it was in English. And he had a nice accent, but he was great.

And, you know, Americanized the whole bit. And I didn't see this happen, but my friend who went told me that he was over studying with Eisen and Agnet.

No, what was his wife's name? Eisen and Iris. And she's like, study, study, study.

Well, study now. Study now. Study, study. Don't goof around. Study now. And Eisen's like, you imitate her.

And, you know, my friend Mike, he's laughing. And so they're studying and she's going paradigms, paradigms which means all the tables, learn, you know, the patterns.

See, paradigms now, paradigms now. And Eisen couldn't do it anymore. And he started doing Rain Man. Mike said that he could not function because he had a

Chinese guy who knows English with a heavy accent doing Rain Man with his wife going, no more

Rain Man, no more Rain Man. And he said, he's falling out of his chair. He's just howling.

And she's serious. And Eisen, he's gone. And she's like, study, study, no more

Rain Man. And Mike, you know, it's just, it's just like that. I never forgot, no more

Rain Man. And so these are some of the moments of seminary.

And, oh, I remember when I lost it in the Greek class. I remember what I said before I left. And the Presbyterian church isn't doing that well either.

That's the last thing I said as I walked out. I remember that. But I will say this,

I used to come to class late. We'll continue with a little bit here. People like stories. Used to come to class late after lunch.

And, but the reason I was late was because I talked to Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses. I'd talk to people about the Lord. And I did, it happened frequently.

And I'd get into class and the professors, after a while would go, I go, Mormons. And they go, okay.

And like that. And so they actually had a meeting where they were talking about me, the staff, because they go, we don't have to do it because you're supposed to be in class.

Well, we can't penalize you for sharing the gospel. I'm kind of stuck. They go, well, that's what it is. And I would come up to school listening to Striper, which is a heavy metal

Christian band, right? And I dressed in kind of some weird stuff. Did I ever tell you about the lunch I had with J .I. Packer?

You haven't heard the J .I. Packer story? You have, right? Oh, it's a great story. But I won't tell it now.

You guys have heard it. And it was a fun story. But at any rate, so 20 years after I went to seminary,

I graduated, I went down, I went back to the seminary and I looked, I'd been living here and went down for something.

I thought, I'm gonna go back to seminary, just check it out. And they were closed. Well, they were open, but the classes were dismissed and that day or whatever.

And I'm downstairs with a long hallway looking at the professor's name at the far end. And I hear a click of the door.

I looked down the hallway and the professor, who's a seminary president, walked across the hallway.

Bob Godfrey, he's gonna be here next weekend. I'm gonna go see him. I'm gonna go to his dinner and see if he remembers me.

Anyway, so he walked across the hall and I still remember this. He sticks his head back and he goes, Matt, this is 20 years after I graduated.

They go, hey, Dr. Godfrey, how are you? He goes, hey, we were just talking about you. Yeah, and you guys have heard that story.

And you've also heard this one where Clowney, Edmund Clowney, he was, he's passed away. He was just a great godly man in the

Presbyterian circles, well -respected, well -known. And I was working, before I got a pastorate call,

I was working at Sears selling carpet in North County Fair, the 15 freeway in San Diego County.

And so he comes walking. I'm seeing him come down the hallway. Then he had to go like that out the door.

And I was right there. I go, Dr. Clowney, how are you? He said, oh, I said, Westminster Seminary graduate.

I said, I've seen you in class. He goes, oh, okay. He doesn't remember everybody, it's fine. No, that's right.

He goes, yeah, yeah, I remember you. And I'm like, well, good.

He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got talking and after a bit, he goes, well, I gotta go. And then literally, he walks out and as he opens the door, says to his wife, that's the guy

I was telling you about. What do you do with that?

And Bob Godfrey, who's gonna be here in Boise next week, when we were in class, he was teaching history. I would take peanut

M &Ms, a bag of peanut M &Ms once a day when I had his classes and I would open up the bag.

It kind of became a thing. I'd open up the bag and I'd sit him right there at my desk and he would lecture and he saw them one day and he's lecturing and he walks over and he grabs a couple and he walks back and he doesn't say, please, doesn't do anything.

He just takes my M &Ms and kept lecturing, right? So it became a thing. I would just, I would put

M &Ms there and I would often in the class, I'd go, before the class, I'd say, are we gonna do one of those prayer things and open up with?

He'd go, and, you know, we had fun and some.

All right, Michael Horton, remember who he is, right? Michael Horton, he's a well -known, he's a professor there, he's well -known in the circles.

And one day, he went to school together and he's across the street, I'm driving and I said, hey, you slimy heretic

Armenian. And he goes, same to you, buddy. It's a theological fun.

All right, so let's get back on task. I like stories. Now we'll go to the next page.

And this is not that big a deal here at this point. It's just information. So what we see here is another word, arche, which is the word beginning and ergon, which is the word work.

And with a singular nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, with a plural nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, you can see

A -R -X, or A -P -X is what it looks like in English, is the root and the endings change.

And with the word ergon, E -R -G, or the

E -P -Y looking thing, the first three letters, E -R -G, that's the root.

And so you can see as the words change. So ergon, oh, it's do with work, arche.

So all I know is A -R -X and you know it's the word, dealing with the word beginning. And arche ein halagos,

John 1 ,1, in the beginning was the word. That's the word arche. And if you go underneath that, you'll see the word lagos, okay?

The word lagos there, os, on, oo, oh.

So in fact, look at this, okay, this is good. So see where it says masculine article and noun.

You see that box? You guys see that, all right? The article in Greek is the word the.

We have the definite article in English, the, and we have the indefinite article, the word a.

I went, I saw a bird, or I went to the hospital. These are, see, indefinite article and the definite article.

In Greek, there's only the definite article. There's no indefinite article. Now, where it says article, that's the one word, the.

Look how many forms it has. In masculine, feminine, neuter, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and singular and plural.

24 different ways to say the word the, or forms of the word the. In English, we only have the, but maybe this, these.

So my wife asked me once, what is that? I said, demonstrative pronoun. What are those?

What are those? I forgot, yeah, I knew it then. And also, which

I watched for the 70th time, this week, Aliens, he was here with his son.

What was the Sarge name? Sarge's name was Apone, which in Greek is having said.

I had to sneak that in there, it's a really important point. So you can see, you can see the similarity, like halagos, both of those are the, nominative, masculine, singular, and then ton, logon, to, logu, logu, to, logu.

You see how the endings of the articles and the endings of the nouns match. And so when you see that pattern, and you know those 24 patterns, because they're pretty much similar.

There's different kinds, but they're pretty much similar. Then you can go, oh, I see what that is in Greek. And then, actually, a light comes on, you go, wait a minute.

Well, the word does is an anomaly, it's pretty tough. But logos, logon, logu, logo, it's the word word.

And all of those are the word word. It's just that it's in the different forms. That's all it is.

Like actor, actors, actress, actresses. You don't have that one? Page six.

Yeah, page six. I should have labeled the tables and just put a little table, table, whatever.

But this is part of what Greek is. And just for fun, let's go over to the last page, which is right there.

He, him, his, her, their, them. And you can just see.

Autas, autan, autu, auto. And you can see how the endings here are the same as the previous one.

So there's patterns to it. And after you learn the patterns, things are making sense.

But there's just lots of patterns to learn. So what happens in Greek is, you initially learn that the very, very basics, then you learn the next not so basic, and it moves on.

Then you get into rules. And you get into different kinds of errors, different kinds of declensions.

Then you have different kinds of infinitive forms. You have, it just goes on. But that's the basics of the

Greek. I mean, it's very basic. But if you were to go back to, however,

John 3, 16, the table, that page, because this is where the rubber meets the road, really.

I spend a lot of time looking at things like this when

I'm doing studies. What I'll do is I'll say, for God so loved, okay?

See, I want to do the word kosmon, which is from the Greek kosmos. Actually, this, okay, the word world.

Now, what I'm gonna do is find out every occurrence of the word world in the New Testament. That's number 2889 in the

Strongs. And I could show it. I could actually do it on my computer and show you guys. But I just put that number into a certain place, and it shows every single occurrence of the word world.

So one of the ways, now, for me, that's important. For you guys, not important. But one of the ways

I've used it, for example, doing studies on annihilationism. Now, I'll go to a verse like,

I think it's Matthew 10, 28. If you're not the one who can cure your body, but cure your heart, your soul, in hell, what was it?

Oh, 2546, I think it was. Eternal life and eternal destruction, okay?

And so I would do a search on the word eternal. How's it used?

Well, how's the phrase eternal life used? I could, like destruction. I'd look at that word, and I was able to find every single instance of the word for, in fact,

I'm gonna look at something. For, to destroy. Apollumi.

So I'm gonna do this. Let's see, karm .org. Whoops, I'm gonna show you something. I'll just mention it.

Come on, .org. And I'll show you one of the things

I did. Let's see, annihilationism, there we go.

So I wrote 182 articles on annihilationism.

And 182, yeah, I did. So I discovered that there's 90 occurrences in 84 verses.

In Logos, it would then list them out, and there's different, you can click this or click that, and it'll list them, all the words in the center, or all the words highlighted, the same word, whatever.

I picked the one I wanted, and I would export it to Excel. So now it's in an

Excel spreadsheet. But once in an Excel spreadsheet, I would save the file immediately.

And then what I would do, because I know Excel, I know tricks, I was able to merge, do this, do that, sort, and different things.

And then what I would do is I would either alphabetize, or I would do some other tricks, whatever, and I'd put them into HTML.

I'd take the table, put it into an HTML file, and I would go in and do search and replaces and remove the unnecessary code that HTML hypertext markup language would produce.

Or sometimes in CSS also, I just remove it. I always enjoyed doing that. Control -H, search and replace this and that.

And I'd purify the code, and I would have it, and then what I would do is I'd read every single verse, like of the word, whatever it would be, like apalumi, or apalumi.

And so I did every single one, and I actually literally have it right here, see?

So here's, I have, I did a table. There's 90 rows, or 91 rows with a heading of every single occurrence.

Then I highlighted every single occurrence in green so that you can look at what it is.

And then what I did was I had two other columns, object and the meaning.

The object of apalumi, in Matthew 2 .13, or let's do this one, in Matthew 5 .29,

if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out, throw it from you, for it is better for you to lose, that's apalumi, apalumi, one of your body parts, then you lose your whole body.

Well, object is a body part, meaning remove a body part. Really simple. And so I would go through, and I started looking.

The object has to do with persons, demons, wineskins, physical death, losing a reward.

And I, what I then did was I put in outline form, outline form, all the results, okay?

So do all the results. Let me see if you guys can still see that. No, they're still that way.

Let's, no, let's see, what are they looking at? They are still,

StreamYard, let's go to StreamYard. Wait a minute. Oh, StreamYard's right there.

Hey, what happened? It went black. Why'd it go black?

Because, let's see. Okay, hold on, let me do this again. Okay, stop screen share, and I'll show you guys again.

All right, it just, it wigged a little bit. Window, and, and I'll show you.

Let's go to Logos. No, it's not. Anyway, I'm not gonna worry about it right now.

It's so much, let's see. Where'd I, I just lost my screen on something.

Greek, entire screen, window. So anyway, doesn't matter. So that's what

I did with that. So I would then categorize every single occurrence.

Oh, I accidentally closed it, that's what happened. That's, I don't know how I closed it. Wow. Anyway, so, in fact, the reason

I'm gonna go back to this, I wanna show it to you. It's things I learned by doing this, and the

Greek helped, right? And so, go back to this,

I don't know why, how I messed up, but I did. I closed the window, I accidentally, Apollumi. So, how it's used in different verses, for example, in Matthew 20, what was it?

Matthew, destroy, what was it?

Matthew 10, 28, that's right. Yeah. Do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul.

Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Now, I'm gonna use this as an example.

So, for example, I can look at the Greek, I can read the word, I know what that word means from having studied it before in seminary.

I can take the word Strong's Concordance, take the number, put it into my

Bible program, find every instance, export it to Excel, do my sorting that I wanna do, clean it up, put it into HTML.

I would then go in and format everything, put all the words of Christ in red, take the actual word, put it in green so that people can see it.

I make it easy for everybody, right? Then I went and analyzed everything, the context was, then

I put it in an outline form. So, what the annihilationists say is in Matthew 10, 28, what it means is you don't exist anymore because that's what the word really means.

Well, I discovered this and I have the references even. I have accomplishment and it's at 2

John 8. Continued existence or nonexistence, both are possible, two occurrences, Matthew 10, 28,

John 10, 10. Each and every one of these, I listed out like this.

And it can also mean damnation or spiritual death, the destruction of demons, destroy Jesus, Herod's attempt to destroy

Jesus as a child, Matthew 2, 13. Well, if he's destroyed, he's still gonna live, he's still gonna exist, but he's being destroyed, right?

So, apollumi can mean destruction while you're still there. Doesn't mean that's what it necessitates in Matthew 10, 28, but you can say

Matthew 10, 28 means nonexistence because that's the verse under examination and its context does not tell you what it exactly means.

Jesus came to save the lost, that's the word lost. That means they're still existing right there.

Or hinder a person, loss of reward. Nonexistence, it can mean a flower, a gold, luxurious things, and wine.

Specific use is where it means nonexistence because things, they disappear. But it's not said that way.

Well, it's a bunch of stuff. Physical death or spiritual death is possible, a category. Physical death is either strongly implied or clearly stated, there's 23 occurrences.

Possible nonexistence, one occurrence. Render invalid, one occurrence. Remove a body part, two occurrences.

Unaccounted for, loss of an object, loss of food, loss of hair, loss of coin, lost sheep. So 17 subcategories

I discovered by looking at this, right? And so I have the analysis, and then by that, the word destruction, apollumi, when it is in reference to people, has a total of 60 occurrences in the

New Testament. And I give the lines in the outline. But of those 60 occurrences, none necessitate from the context that nonexistence is a proper interpretation.

Necessitates, okay? This is important since there are contexts, line 10, where the nonexistence of objects are clearly understood.

Flowers, gold, et cetera. Nevertheless, within those 60 occurrences where apollumi is in reference to people, the only verses where physical death is necessary as an interpretation, totals, and blah, blah, blah.

So I completely analyzed it, all right? Believe it or not,

I like doing this, okay? I know I got issues, and you can say it,

Matt has issues, and, you know, but it's what I like doing. And how come it won't,

I can't get the, oh, no, not there. It doesn't matter.

So that's why I wrote 182 articles, because it became a, it became a, just a well of information.

I started studying everything, and I really developed a lot of studying techniques from doing this repeatedly and doing things like this.

I have a lot of information, even articles I haven't even released yet from that. And the

Annihilationist Group is making a comeback in America, and I only intended to write five or 10 articles.

That's all I intended, but one thing led to another, led to another, led to another. It's just one of those things, and I ended up enjoying it, and slightly, you'd call it overkill, but the

Annihilationist Group are now trying to respond to it, and there you go, you know?

So I learned stuff out of these kinds of studies, and I could talk about annihilationism and its problems and things like that, and it's definitely not true.

And, but yet people are falling for it. So I did that on,

I don't know how many Greek words I did it on. Let's see, and then

I'd also do it on Hebrew words. So let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, nine or 10 in Hebrew, probably 10, 20, around 30 or 35 in Greek.

And then word studies. Well, that's different. I have

Greek word studies, destruction, and English word studies, there's another 25. And then

I analyzed, how many verses did I analyze? 70? I'll stop.

So it's a lot of work, and, but it's what I do, you know, it's what I'm paid to do, it's what

I love to do, it's what I'm called to do. And so I learned a great deal out of these things, which is why

I can go on the radio and, you know, I've got a lot to learn though, still. But nevertheless, and I can go on, and I could tell you all kinds of stuff.

But at any rate, back to the Greek. So you see the foundation, these are tools, you guys don't need them, you don't need that stuff.

I do, okay, I need to study this kind of stuff at that level, because that's what I do. But you guys don't need that.

But at least now, you get a little bit of an understanding of what Greek is, because you won't get this, probably ever in a church, not complaining, it's just, there's no need for it to tell in a church, unless it's, hey, everybody want to know how to pry your brain?

I'll teach you Greek a little bit for an hour. Okay, and you go in and that happens, okay.

But you can see that it gets involved, it's quite deep. And Rachel has had

Greek, how many years of Greek did you have? Three semesters? At graduate level.

At graduate level? Okay, and when did, how long ago was that, years ago? Year and a half ago.

So I had four and a half years of Greek, but finished 30 years ago. So she's probably remembered a lot more than I would.

But the thing is, it's useful, it's useful. Remember, I first met her out at Manti.

You met her too, that's right, that's right. Who is this girl who studies Greek and takes theology seriously, knows her stuff.

Hey, she's all right. And then Jake and all of us on the two hour ride back to Bill's house, yeah,

Rachel's pretty nice. We're like, huh, you think so, huh? And now they're married. Yeah, I did their wedding too, so that was fun.

That was a good wedding, it was a good wedding. All right, so that's

Greek. You guys asked for it, right? That's just Greek. Hebrew, same thing, a little bit different, okay?

Except right to left, and different terms and things like that. To do both of them at the same time at graduate level, you don't know if you're coming or going, left or right.

So what do you, tell me, what do you think? Interesting? Did you?

Yeah, and you can also maybe get the idea that Greek is very precise language and theologically minded.

So for example, in Matthew 16, 18, you are Peter, and upon this rock,

I'll build my church. You are Petras, but upon Petra, I'll build my church.

Petras, Omicron Sigma, is the Greek word for Petra. Sigma, which is the nominative singular, masculine. Petra is the nominative feminine singular.

So in Greek, it's very significant. You are Petras, but upon Petra, I'll build my church.

You are the actor, but upon the actress, I'll build my church, it's like that. And Petra is feminine, word for rock.

You are Peter, which is a rock this big, but upon Petra is a rock this big. It means like a mass, like you can dig a tomb in it.

You can put a cave into it, but Petras, you might be able to pick it up. Some of you could, and some of you couldn't, but it's like that size, okay?

You are Petras, but upon Petra, I'll build my church. Well, what's Petra? Well, you find the word in Greek, do a search, and you know what you discover in 1

Corinthians 10, 4? That the rock that followed Moses and them and the escapees from Egypt, the rock that followed them was

Christ. The rock is Petra, which is feminine, but the rock was

Christ. Well, wait a minute, how can Jesus be feminine? It's not how it works. It just happens to be a feminine word, and it's just showing, it's a word.

It's like the big boulder, the big boulder, the massive mountain that was following them. It's just in some languages, it's in a feminine form.

That's all it is, that's all it is. It doesn't mean that the thing it's referring to is also feminine, and so you learn stuff like this, and then

I use this when I'm talking about Catholicism, which I love talking about Catholicism. It's so full of crap, and you know me,

I love talking heresy. Take a Catholic catechism, whether I'm here or down someplace else, and oh yeah, heresy in there.

Got some truth in it too, though, all right? All right, does anyone ask anything, or?

I found respect for my daughter. I found respect for your daughter? I have a newfound respect for my daughter.

Why? Because she went to, she learned Greek. No idea what she did.

Yeah, it's, and let me tell you, it gets a lot harder from there, because like I showed you a table, like Lagos, and Lagu, Lago, well, that's one kind of declension.

There's another kind. Then you have first Aorist and second Aorist. Then you have to, it's like, for example, here's like a rule.

If we're to go to, for example, I'll show you something. If you go to Jude, I think it's

Jude six or Jude seven, get my thing going up here, and I'll show you something about the Greek that's useful, when you know a few things.

You don't have to know a whole bunch, but it becomes useful. It's a way for my thing to propagate here. And here we go, go to Jude.

Last one there is an Armenian dispensationalist who's a cessationist also. Let's see,

Jude, Jude seven.

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, and I'll show you something else too. I'm gonna go to Romans 5 .19.

I'll show you about the Greek. Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh and are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Are exhibited, present tense. Are, they're undergoing as a participle, present participle.

The present participle, according to Greek rules, takes its meaning from the previous verb.

Because you can have a participle in the present structure of the past as well as the future. So yesterday he was, you know, yesterday

I'm eating this hot dog. You can talk like that. I am eating is a present, but it's in the context of the past.

And you can do that. Well, in Greek, you can do that even more so. And so they are exhibited as present, undergoing is the participle, which means that right now, presently, they are being exhibited as undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

This is what I learned in annihilation study. Okay. Here's another one that's funny.

If you go to Romans 5 .19, for as through one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners.

Were made sinners. Well, when you look at what that is, that's the aorist passive indicative.

Were made sinners. Okay, so what does that mean? So in Adam, when

Adam sinned, the many were made sinners. Now, some theological circles, and people will say that Adam's sin is not our sin.

It's not imputed to us. It's not reckoned to us. We're just born good, and then we sin and we become fallen.

It's called Pelagianism. It's a heresy. Well, this verse, they were made sinners.

Aorist passive indicative. Well, aorist means past tense.

Passive means they received the action. The many were made sinners. They became sinners by his action.

Indicative means it's a fact. They were actually, all the descendants in Adam were made sinners by his action.

That's what the Greek says. Aorist active, or aorist passive indicative. Well, when

I was debating somebody live, I'd known about that in Romans 5, 19.

I then went over to Philippians 1, 29 because the topic had gone over there. For to you, it has been granted, not only to believe.

That also is a aorist passive indicative. Has been granted.

Aorist past tense, granted to you. God has given you this issue of faith. It's a fact.

You won't really get that unless you study the Greek and you understand what these things mean. Then you can make a theological statement out of it.

This is what it means. And when I was debating a guy in Eastern Orthodoxy, and I brought this up, he didn't know what to do with it.

And so, yeah, there's some other issues that can get sidetracked.

But this is why Greek is useful, particularly the pastors, ministers, who are gonna getting into the language and start studying it.

And of course, the average Joe, you don't need to know this stuff. It's not worth the endeavor unless you just wanna study it and learn.

But it's useful. It's useful for apologists, pastors, teachers, things like that, teachers.

Okay, what? Yeah, so we can understand that. Yeah. I can see that it's very important.

So sometimes when I'm teaching, I'll see something, but I won't bring it up because it can go down a tangent. This is a passive.

This is that. This is the middle voice. This is that. And we can do interpretations and variations. And what we do in the

English, how you translate it, dynamic or literal, or what do you do? So someone says,

I will never learn the Greek language, but I understand a little bit more how to use Logos and check the

Greek tenses and stuff. Good. All right. So there you go. A question for you guys. We were doing

Galatians. We kind of took a break or stop or whatever. What do you wanna study next? Galatians.

Galatians? Yeah. We can continue in Galatians. Galatians, it'd be

Galatians four, I think, we'd be going into. Okay.

And then if you want after that, we can do topics. Oh yeah. I love topics.

I love teaching. That's what I write on. I write topics. All the studies. And I could teach on COVID. I've been studying that left and right.

Article you put out is pretty great. Did you read it yesterday or today?

Yesterday. I read this one too. Yeah, the old one. I didn't know there was an English. Oh, I released two today.

But yesterday's was on a table that I just, I went and I related the

COVID vaccines to infections. And then today, COVID vaccines to deaths.

And the charts are basically the same. So basically, here's a question that you gotta understand.

The more vaccines, the more sickness and death. But it doesn't necessarily mean it's causative. It could be reactionary.

That is something that's gotta understand. You could have more deaths occurring. So more vaccines are pushed. But even then, it's demonstrating that it's not that effective.

Yeah, so, and then, oh. Oh, I'm gonna get banned from YouTube.

But we're on Odyssey. Won't get banned from there. Odyssey is another O -D -Y -S -E -E .com.

And I have links. If you go to CARM, and someone told me that one of the articles wasn't, let's see.

COVID vaccine effectiveness per percentages of infection in a population.

That's a hard title to come up with. And I have their

YouTube video and an Odyssey video link. And it'll take you right to the Odyssey one. And what

I did was, yesterday, I did a video talking about this, this article. I'm just gonna start doing that more and more.

But, and it's live. And we've also got CARM on blockchain. So if they try to take the

CARM site down, it's still out there. They can't ever take it down. Yeah.

What's blockchain? Blockchain? It's a bunch of chains that are blocked together. Blockchain.

It's an encryption system that gets dispersed around different computers. And where parts of truths, parts of statements of a document, will exist on all of our, each computer's individually.

So if yours gets burned or stolen, or they take yours away, the parts are still there.

And the blockchain system knows how to go get the parts and assemble. That kind of a thing.

So to get rid of it, you gotta destroy all of them, basically. What's that?

Yes, it is, isn't it? Because what is the object of the gift?

What is, is it the gift that we have, or the gift of Christ? Is that the point you want to bring out? No. What is it?

It's perfect? A, me, but S, they. So the present active indicative, but second person plural.

Why is it rendered in the English perfect? With a perfect. Oh, okay. With a perfect. Oh. Perfect passive participle now.

Perfect passive participle. Basically it's saying that you need to be, to exist.

Yeah, so. You are currently existing in the. Saved state. Perfect state of you were saved, and you are currently saved, but God saved you.

Thanks for bringing that up, because the participle is the I -N -G. Participle. And so have been saved is literally, literally, yeah.

Este sod somenoi. Whew. Yeah. And it's the perfect passive participle, plural nominative masculine.

So, it was interesting as a participle, because it means a continued action in the present.

But yet it's rendered as a perfect tense in the English. Have been. And because of a este, which is, that's why it would do that then.

It's present active indicative. Wow. Present active indicative.

You are, have been. You are having, have being saved.

It's like saying, wow. It is, that's awesome. You wanna know why

I know that? It's really weird. Why? Before I ever took Greek. Yeah.

I had considered going to seminary. Yeah. And I had a dream. That's why it's kind of weird.

I had a dream that I was talking to a Mormon. And I was sharing this verse with them as I always would.

But the guy in my dream, the Mormon guy in my dream kept getting tripped up on have been saved and kept stopping me.

I couldn't get past that part of the verse. Have been saved, have been saved. What do you mean have been saved?

And I literally could not finish the verse he would let me. And I woke up and I'm like, I wonder what that is in Greek. And I didn't know any

Greek yet. So I figured it out. And then I did a bunch of Googling and figured out what it meant. And then

I'm like, I think I need to go to seminary for Mormons. Wow. Yeah, I was pretty weird. That is interesting though.

The present active indicative with a perfect passive participle.

See what they would do in Greek. Not that this is one of the things they would do. They'd say, whenever you have a perfect passive participle preceded by a present active indicative, then you render it in English as a, you go, okay, thank you.

That was nice to know that. Thank you. Just need to know what I need for this. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like that. That's cool. And then there's the Granville Sharpe rule. That is out of Titus 2 .13.

So I won't get into it. So what they find is scholars, they will find Greek patterns and rules, universal rules of how

Greek is used. I would say that there are Greek scholars today who knew the language better than they did back then, at least denotatively, not necessarily connotatively.

Denotative is literal definitions. Connotative sometimes has a feeling of meaning to it.

So they're incredibly knowledgeable about the Greek language. And there you go.

I'll just pray. We'll stay on here. Everybody who wants to go can go and the whole bit. Ask questions here online if you want. Lord Jesus, thank you.

Just ask that you bless this time and bless the listeners. Thank you, Lord. And I hope that the

Greek lesson went well and was fun and entertaining and interesting at the same time. And just ask for your blessing,

Lord, on the people here and the listeners. We ask this, Jesus, in your precious name. Amen. All right.

So if you guys have any questions in the chat or whatever, online, you can ask, whatever.

I'll take any questions. But rest well, everyone. Time for a shut -eye. Did you guys enjoy that?

Online, too? Enjoy it? I'm saying yes. Takes about 20 seconds for them to respond through, but.

How do I access your articles? Articles, are they on CARM? The one that's on COVID, too?

What you can do is go to carm .org forward slash COVID. And let's see if that works.

CARM .org forward slash COVID. And it goes right to the articles.

And I'll be releasing more. I'm just releasing them as I finish them. I haven't even gotten into the vaccines themselves or ivermectin or hydrochloroquine and the

PCR. PCR test? Yeah. I gotta look up what that means.

Yeah, find some, an email. Yeah, people are sending me all kinds of stuff.

And so I just have to make sure. In fact, I'll show you guys a fun video.

You guys are gonna watch this. Let's see if I can get this going.

You can enjoy it, trust me. If I can get the sound going. You're gonna like this.

It's gonna be wonderful. All right, good.

I hope that was fun. Good morning, Dr. What do we got? Are we live? Yeah, we are. I'll send you another seven now.

All right. Good luck. I don't know how long it'll take to get it up to the internet.

Yeah. I have to. that that the the the the the the the and the

Yep, so he does invasion of the body snatchers You see the guy

That's how it's going that's how it's worth going here with us and You can turn that off now if you want

I'd be great it was great man still want your notes, okay Yeah Good turn on for everybody else.

Sorry Middle one. Yeah, that's good. Don't deal with it so Yeah, the kovat thing

We can talk about that a little bit up here I'm gonna talk about it It's it is being used for control manipulation pressuring and I have a bunch of questions that I released today on karm and some of the questions deal with Why is it that For example, if it they want everyone to be vaccinated why?

Why do I want everyone to be vaccinated? Worldwide there's a control that's going on. I don't know what's going on.

I don't know why but it's it's bothering me a great deal Particularly because kovat when you have you've had kovat you have natural immunities.

It's 13 times better than then the vaccine Plus when you get the vaccine, there's no guarantee that it stops

Infections doesn't guarantee you won't be hospitalized. We don't know the long -term effects of a lot of this there's no guarantees it or pushing it and pushing it and So I in my years of cult study

I've seen how Cults work and how they Force compliance and you know,

I'll be writing about that some more force compliance and they want everybody to comply When it's two groups

Think of Nazi Germany and the Jews you have two groups the ones who were stripped of their power and their rights were the ones who became oppressed by the

People in power and What happened to them was they were eventually killed the

Germans actually said during that time because that will never happen and it did and Hitler was demonic.

Now, how many of you think there might be some demonic activity in Washington DC? Why would now if this is all about our health?

Then why are they illegally opening up the borders to have hundreds of thousands a month coming in?

From the South without being vaccinated Without having the mass and they ship them to different parts of the country and you and Nick just tell me she's found some

Evidence, I got a research it they're being sent the Afghans Afghans are being sent to Republican dominated states

It's a power play to control That's what's going on. All right, so if it's about health

Why is it that the United States citizens are forced being forced more and more to wear masks and get vaccinated?

When they're really nothing effective if cloth mask is 3 % effective 3 % The surgical mask is at best 47 % effective.

Did you say that? That's not Protecting you with others Now the mask itself only

Stops 3 % of the virus material. Yeah, that's all it does. There's a lot of people that believe that the mask is protecting themselves

It is It's not but it come in or out wearing in the cars. I'm like, why are you wearing it right yourself in the car?

They're sheeple They're sheeple. Yeah so this is going on and it's gonna it's on the increase and If you pay attention to it

I watch Tucker Carlson my Nick and I watch it every night and the first 10 minutes are usually great the opening statement

He's got some good information. People are sending me information. She's finding information I can't even keep up with it and but the thing is

I've take all kinds of information and distill it down into something easy to use Something simple and it's not easy to do takes days sometimes to do one article

And has well -documented I had to write a disclaimer And I have a disclaimer

That's on karma as well So that there's no medical, you know, whatever. I got it.

I Modified it today significantly and I have it in a box and a whole bit and I have at the end of every article read the karma disclaimer and It's medical tyranny there's some other things

I'm thinking about thinking or turn this off before you talk but So what's happening and some another person?

I know says he's got a connection with somebody who said that it's supposed to get worse and more variants are going to be released to cause more problems or if it's true or not and Back and then actually be blamed on I also have an article that deals with different isolation procedures in the home

Yeah at work and in camps and they actually have FEMA camps

I think it was CDC website itself. You gave a link in one of the articles.

We checked it out. It was home neighborhoods neighborhood Yep One of three conditions is met one of the conditions being

Not gonna happen. Yep.

Oh There's a ton of stuff there I'm glad you found it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's

So much more haven't even released. There's so much more material and it's hard to collate everything

If I were you guys I would start prepping up and getting ready in the whole bit. I don't want to take the vaccine

I do not want to take the vaccine. I don't want to take it I would under certain conditions if it's to take care of Nick and that's the only way you know, you gotta do what you got to do, but I don't want to take it and If I do it'll be my choice but the more they say you have to take it but to take it and Don Lemon Lamone I just someone

I just saw some headline. I gotta go through and confine that and Where you know, he's he's really snotting on the unvaccinated and now they're talking about Confiscating our privileges.

They're called privileges like traveling on an airplane. It's a privilege

I Think your passports your vaccine passport in order to travel because that's that's not a necessities privilege well, how long will be before food will be a privilege and Driving driving driver's license.

You can't get a driver's license unless you have your pet valid passport. Yeah, you can't go to work So this is what they're doing.

They're hurting us mentally emotionally and eventually physically into areas of encampments

Yeah, or a gold cross for us More more people are you that we are learning?

Yep Here's the thing though One simple thing which

I've told this guy's before which war battle that we were in work And we had other nations only one of them

Just one know you us POWs ever escaped from you know, which one it was

There's a reason Just one every war been in would have American POWs. They've there'd been a percentage that have escaped

North with North Korea. They would never had any escapes from North Korea. And the reason is

All they did was watch The people and watch to see who became leaders.

They just took them and moved them someplace else That's all they did and they couldn't organize and they started organizing again to get leader out

Whoever manifested as a leader was removed No one escaped We don't have any leadership inside of our conservative movement

If we were to do this over the communication system, all they gotta do is shut it down We can't fight but Millie that SOB general guilty of treason

Where is the left on? Asking for his head. Yeah, Trump makes one phone call and they impeach him

Biden treason when you leave Americans in a foreign country after you tell the military to leave without making sure that your citizens are out first and then you

You leave Only seven billion dollars of equipment there.

Why do you do that? Unless you want them to be equipped. Yeah, you want that to occur?

want There to be more terrorist activity. Why would that be?

What would be the reason to want that? I'll tell you what it is What? Turn it off Okay, I think