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Ammon Hillman calls this the lesson that inoculates against the back alley. The first clip argues the gospels had to be written in Greek because that was the enemy language, and the rebuttal is the word count: Greek holds about 1.5 million unique forms while ancient Hebrew holds eight thousand. The episode reads the encyclopedias carefully, the lines that admit Hebrew was supplanted, that it was a liturgical language, and that the Masoretic text appears around a thousand of the common era, not before. The point is that biblical Hebrew has no surviving documents from the period it claims, while Greek is physically everywhere.
One Greek word does the work of the argument. Aphanismos (ἀφανισμός) joins the alpha privative to phainō (φαίνω), to appear, so it means made not to appear, hidden, removed; the Hebrew haram means to devote a people to a god of death, kill them with the edge of the sword and dedicate the gold. Deuteronomy 7 is read as the proof that the idea arrived with the translation, because Mother Greek’s world runs on logos and ergon (ἔργον), reckoning and work, not extermination.
The rest of the class is the grammar of unit one with the drill instructor. A noun announces itself by its definite article, ho, hē, to (ὁ, ἡ, τό), and anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος) bends to anthrōpou (ἀνθρώπου), the accent dragged toward the long ending, while a dative is translated to, for, or with. The homework is the first and second declensions, ā, ēs, ēi, ān (ᾱ, ης, ῃ, ᾱν) and os, ou, ōi, on (ος, ου, ῳ, ον), plus the definite article in every case, and the assignment is to read unit two and work the exercises. The closer keeps the rule the course has held since the first night: the training is free, and greed is the one toxin the muse will not sit beside.
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A little music for the Dawnbringers and the Rootcutters.
It’s a one, two, she whispers little thing in the wheel of Seema.
I got the creeper reefer.
We eat spaghetti for silly assassina.
Sipping wine flavor.
Got the bag of amethyst.
Dawnbringer.
Taking flight.
Feel.
Chime time.
Welcome back to Lady Babylon.
on this is almond you tonight and i’m going to give you plenty of time with your instructor
tonight i’m going to uh bring him on in a minute but what i want to do is warm you up and i want
to say thank you for your continued attention to ancient greek it’s very important very important
um eye opening enlightenment stuff and tonight we’re going to do that but in order to get there
we’ve got to start somewhere that you’re not going to want to be. Where are we going? We’re
going to the back alley. We’re going to that place where people get seduced. They get seduced.
I want you, satanic congregation, to be impervious to the seduction of the fairy tale.
I want you to be so rooted in reason, people have to give you a coat like a scientist and
call you Melvin. Listen to me very carefully tonight. We’re going to look at an example
of how you can be taken into the back alley. It’s very easy. And let’s all stay together.
Come on. Let’s don’t get anybody get lost out there. This is a scary, scary place.
all right i’m gonna hit you with the clip first and i want you to look at this clip
and i want you as classical philologists to realize your place is a place of examining
evidence you are investigators you examine evidence none of us care about arguments
arguments are sold and bought evidence is what will take us to the history so i want you to be
listening for that go ahead what did the greeks want to do they want to destroy judaism so that’s
why i say that when you think of greek don’t think of think of it as german the reason why
you would bristle the idea that a holy book would be written in german i don’t need to tell you what
happened 85 years ago so greek wasn’t just another language it was the enemy language it was the
the language represents everything that was vile, everything that was ungodly.
Moreover, bear in mind, people may say,
well, the writers of the New Testament, they just were Greek speakers.
Christians insist that the authors of the gospels and the letters,
the epistles found in the Christian canon, were divinely inspired.
They’re not just the recollections of evangelists.
No, they were divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Ghost.
Really? That means God inspired these people to write in Greek?
Did the Holy Spirit forget Hebrew and Aramaic?
And this is a massive problem for the church.
That’s why there are books out that when God began to speak Greek,
they have to explain this away.
It’s a very big problem.
Did the Holy Spirit speak Hebrew and Aramaic?
this is the difficulty do you hear how we’re not looking at evidence right we’re scientists and we
need to stand back we need in order to understand history we have to look at all the data that
we’ve been given that’s the that’s history and you and i are philologists our data is all that
Greek. Now, the impression, this is the very, this is the stealth of the whole
creation of the fairy tale. People are speaking Hebrew and Aramaic. Fantastic, fantastic. I want
you to keep that in mind because I’m going to show you something. We know that by this time,
there was no he spoken hebrew nope and i’ll show you that in a second so um the greek that is in
antiquity that is the language of the literature the romans that you’d be proud of this the romans
used to say um the greeks yeah although they were conquered by us they conquered us with that
gorgeous gorgeous hot language it’s right it’s right it’s right um so let’s look for the data
like in hebrew ancient hebrew there are only 8 000 unique words in ancient greek somewhere around 1.5
million why the difference right hit um chewy hit us another star system please yes it’s written in
a language that’s not just not Jewish, not Hebrew, not Aramaic. It’s written in the enemy language.
It’s written in the ungodly language, the language of Hellenism, everything that was ungodly. And
most importantly, most germane for us, because you’re a child of Hashem, you want to do the
right thing. Like, why is there these Greek ideas, the idea of a demiurge, that Satan is the lord of
this world in second corinthians 4 4. it’s it’s the ideas that are conveyed in christianity that
are greek rather than hebrew thank you so much for your thoughtful question if you enjoyed this
program please like and subscribe okay did you get the pitch there did you get the pitch there
anybody who wants to purchase or merchandise feel free now the problem is the things that we’re not
seeing is the very obvious i want you to be on alert i want you to be on alert whenever someone
starts talking in generalities generalities don’t stand up to even a decade of antiquity
you cannot say these people do that at the same time as those people do that this is such a
mixture of mediterranean and cultures from asia minor um long long long histories languages galore
right it’s we’re flooded with data so we don’t need to be making generalities be careful when
somebody says bible times realize oh in bible times something happened that is scientifically
and linguist linguistically absurd it’s absurd at its best at its worst it’s intentionally deceptive
so but it’s something that monism does scholars hate this and that’s why classicists don’t treat
the bible because they know these are the guardians of the fairy tale of the fairy tale are
you ready for this i just want to hit you with a piece of um okay get ready to reset yourself
and you’re thanking are you ready let’s just look at the facts we’re talking about hebrew in the
first century let’s see let’s see what we’ve got here give me the first facts a little watch this
people you can find this on you can find this on any old encyclopedia right what is hebrew it’s
closely related to phoenician and moabite we don’t have any more though which with which it is often
placed by scholars in the canaanite subgroup spoken in ancient times in palestine now wait
a minute did you hear it start to creep in that was the creeper in ancient times what are you
talking about there’s three thousand years of time all over the the western world
what are you talking about ancient times he um what happened um spoken in ancient times
in palestine hebrew was supplanted uh-oh what are they recognizing here they’re recognizing
that hebrew died hebrew was a small tribal language that died and by the time it got
to the level of being able to communicate itself greek came along and went squash just like she
did many many many other languages many other languages the real irony is that the person that
was just speaking to you about hebrew and about evil greek their ancestors were greek speakers
that’s the irony of the history it died out watch what happens people hebrew was supplanted by and
they propose aramaic possibly funny aren’t they they’re funny was there any aramaic no what’s
going on we’re trying to explain the facts that we’ve got and the monists have to stick to a
narrative they have to if the if the old testament is not hebrew everyone’s in big trouble and god
has a birthday god has a birthday hit it joey yahoo yahoo when’s your birthday everybody happy
birthday to yahoo happy day to yahoo today elohim it was in the third century
thank you occult examiner and chewy for bringing us that gem watch what happens people um this is
in the third century notice that they say it’s in the third century right that’s when we know
It’s gone. It was revived. Look what they say. The language was liturgical. How many times have
I told you that? How many times have I told you that? We are talking about a language that was
dead. Do you know who’s talking about that language that was dead? People talking in Greek.
Now, granted, at this time, at this time, the world is being swamped, swamped by the language.
But something is happening to Mother Greek, too.
Yeah, she is aging.
She’s aging, and that should not be happening.
We have things creeping into the language,
and ultimately, we get this thing called koine.
It’s a koine from the Attic dialect,
and it is corrupted.
It’s corrupted.
It’s being dumbed down.
It’s commonality.
is having to pay for absorbing people who have not worked with greek who are not born with greek
yeah all sorts of cultures all over the mediterranean they’re having to absorb this
you see when you learn history you learn dates and you learn people’s names and that garbage is
useless it takes away from the focus of the nature that the greeks were so focused on the
nature of language the nature of language okay give me the next one the uh give me the next one
yeah we’re talking about natural beauty here watch this people here’s another little entry
look at this classical hebrew we’ve got the hebrew language is divided into four major periods now
watch this pay attention biblical or classical hebrew what is wrong with the commas this person
does not understand commas until about the third century bc now they’re telling you biblical hebrew
is that which goes up to the third century bc but wait a minute how many biblical texts do we have
from this period do we have the letters of isaiah no do we have the genesis of moses no do we have
anything no you mean we have nothing of biblical zero do you know why this article says that
biblical Hebrew exists without having any documents written in that language. Imagine
if I were to say, you know what, in my backyard, some people spoke a language and it was called
blah and blah was so expressive. Show us some blah. I got no blah. Fill in the blank, people.
this is not science, right? You cannot say the period when this language was spoken
if there are no remains of the language. Zero. Zip. Nada. Now, watch what they say here in that
line. Until about the 3rd century, in which most of the Hebrew Bible is written. Really? It’s
written in this period? Give me some of it. Oh, you don’t have any of it? That right there that
you just read, we just read together, that is an illusion. That’s an illusion. We are song
and dancers. Do you know what we are? We are singers and dancers, and we are singing and
dancing here. Let’s keep going. Now, what comes after it? After it comes Mishneach or Rabbinic
Hebrew. And you say, aha, there’s the language. I’ve got the language right there. This man,
Ammon, is a fool. Look, they’re speaking Hebrew, written about 200 CE. What? What? This form of
Hebrew, look what’s in the parentheses, right? When somebody takes you into the back alley
and they start saying funny things, look for what’s in the parentheses. What’s in the parentheses
here somebody read this form of hebrew was never used among people as a spoken language what are
these people speaking greek why did jesus what did jesus speak greek nobody spoke hebrew it had been
dead for years it did not have the stamina god’s tongue took a dive yes watch what happens here
people. So from about the 6th to the 13th century, Anno Domini, when many words were being…
Look, what are they doing? Borrowing. Now we’re going to try to bring it back. We’ve got to revive
this corpse. And what are we going to do? Naturally, we’re just going to use the words
that we’re speaking natively. Greek, Spanish, Arabic. I don’t know if these are the languages
of the ungodly? I don’t know. But scientific, do you hear how that’s an argument? You don’t want
to be bathed in arguments. You want the evidence, the science. Anybody here? This is a frigging
temple to reason. The muse, my friend, is the result of a process of creation. Everything around
you is that nature. Isn’t that fundamentally kind of mind-altering? If you can’t follow anything but
science, wow, think about that. You could almost never be led astray. No, facts won’t lead you
astray. Look at the evidence. Go to the next one. One more of these, and then I’m going to call on
the drill instructor. Lots of good news from him. The Hebrew of the Bible exhibits little
dialectical variety. Now, this one’s important. It seems like it’s a side note. So all of these
books that are in the Bible, you mean they don’t have any dialectical differences, period? As if
the same person wrote them. Yeah, as if one person or one group of people wrote this work. All these
different books, the books of Moses, the prophets, the Psalms, they’re all written by the same
people, by one group at one time in the third century. They left their fingerprints all over
it. And what language did they have to use? They had to use Greek. They had to use Greek
because that’s all they had. You cannot write a work if you’re not native. If you don’t have
that language inside and out of you. Yeah. You can’t use the idiom. It’s the idiom. The idiom
stains you. Watch. I’m going to show you a little idiom here in a second. Give me the next comment.
This is fantastic, people. None of us is going to be deceived here anymore. None. No back alleys.
We will stay. Tell me, teacher, we’ll stay the straight and narrow. Watch this. Biblical Hebrew.
In its widest sense, Biblical Hebrew refers to the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between 1000 BC.
That’s a nice, that’s a right cap.
Do we have a document from, of course we don’t, right?
1000 BC to 400 CE.
It comprises several evolving and overlapping dialects.
Look, it’s almost like they don’t have, there’s no scientific standards here for their definitions.
The phases of classical Hebrew are often named after important literary works.
Really? Really? Like the Mishnahic Hebrew, right? A non-spoken language. Fantastic. Give me the next
one. What is going on with this? Israeli and Hebrew is a proposed, wait, is a proposed, as soon as
you hear proposed, that trench coat is coming off. Yeah, the trench coat. Look, you can expect it.
now you’re in trouble don’t be thinking where’s mom and dad no you’re done for a a proposed
northern dialect of biblical hebrew believed well at least they’re admitting that this is not a
matter of science but a matter of faith at least they’re admitting that believed to have existed
in all eras of the language in some cases competing with it look at how look at how
incredibly contorted and, you know, detailed is their belief, right? Seriously, is this the best
your scholars can do? Yes, yes. One for the scholars. One for the scholars, all you language
scholars, you lazy people. Shame on you. Shame on you for abandoning the art. Go to the next one,
should we quickly quickly i want to bring the sergeant and here we go it one more well look at
this look at this israeli and hebrew ih is a northern dialect now this one didn’t say that
they don’t have any of this this fish doesn’t exist this is a hypothesized fish have you seen
it have you drawn it out do you know well where it has its young what does it do what environment
No, none of that. This is an imaginary fish. This is an imaginary fish. Blow it up, Joey.
Blow it up. Proposed, well, out there, finally, they hit it. Proposed as an explanation for the
various irregular linguistic features of the Masoretic text. Now, what are they talking about?
When you read the Bible, you are reading an English translation or a Spanish translation
or something. You’re reading a translation of the Masoretic text. And when is the Masoretic
Hebrew text? When is it invented? It is invented in 1000 Anno Domini. You mean we’re not even a
thousand? We’re a thousand years off the mark? Yes, you meant to land in the Sea of Tranquility.
You landed on Mercury. God, my God, biblical scholars, what is wrong with you? Watch what
happens? It competes with the alternative. Oh, look, the irregular linguistic features. So we
have the Masoretic text, but it’s irregular. Why do you think they have problems? You don’t hear
classicists talking about, you know what, Homer, that guy’s irregular. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don’t
play games. What’s happening with your text, people? It’s falling apart. It competes with
the alternative explanation that such features are Aramaisms. Now look what they did. They so
want to include something that sounds legitimate. They’re going to pull in Aramaic. Aramaic is that
substitute for reality. The reality that we need to understand is this stuff didn’t exist in
antiquity. Do you know what was there? Greek. And she was eating everybody up. The good news is that
after greek met its decline in into the influences of the first and centuries bc and a.d after she
started to meet her client a group of very enthusiastic people you could call them i don’t
know a satanic congregation they came up they came up with a method they said we’re going to
to re-inject the glory that was Athens.
Do you remember all the evil things
that Hellenism is doing, like democracy?
Do you remember the real evil thing
that Hellenism gave birth to in our history?
It’s called democracy, democracy.
That comes through a language,
and that language has the capacity
To make you aware.
Do you know the science that the Greek teaches?
That science can put anybody,
anybody who’s trying to take you into a back alley,
put it to shame.
Puts them to shame.
Lady Justice is right there with her.
Let’s go to the next one.
Watch this, people.
And then I’m just waiting.
I’m going to call on the drill and strike.
Give me another 10 minutes and I’m going to call on you, D.I.
This is a Greek sentence lifted from Deuteronomy 7.
Deuteronomy 7.2.
Oh, now watch this on the second line.
Do you hear that?
Do you see what they’re doing?
Now watch.
He’s going to do it again.
Do you hear what’s going on?
It’s something Hellenistic Greeks particularly love to do.
They love to take a verb because they’re smarties, right?
They’ve learned how the language works.
They’ve learned the mastery of how that causes you to grow in your frame,
in that place that you perceive causes you to grow.
and you know they’ve gotten clever and then here’s what we’re going to do we’re going to take a verb
the action word and we’re going to take a noun person place or thing and we’re going to take
those two things we’re going to make one word the verb and it’s going to have the this root and
then we’re going to take the same root and we’re going to have the noun use the noun from that
root it’s a little bit of repetition that breaks up it makes them remember this is musical right
Lots and lots of non-musical languages out there.
Lots of them, like our stupid Anglo-Saxon, right?
Speaking of Anglo-Saxons, check out Aldboy, who is doing an outstanding service by running around,
tracking down the purple in his backyard and going to some of these places and talking.
He was talking to someone.
I’ll give you a little bit of preview.
I don’t think he’d mind.
um old boy’s gonna be gonna be looking at more purple that they’re still finding oh god oh god
it’s wonderful people who said the apocalypse who was that person who said this was gonna be
impossible to you naysayers let’s go back to that verse let’s go back to that verse what does this
verse say um it brings up something that i wanted to show you the style the style of this lion these
lines is Greek. It’s not only colloquial, it’s stylistically Greek. Is the Hebrew able to keep
this up? No, of course not, because the Hebrew is a translation of this. How are they supposed to
invent words? Oh, God, if you’ve only got 8,000, you’ve got to start inventing, right? It’s the
way it is. We do the same thing in English, right? Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors did the same thing. You
borrow. Remember the Hebrew that we’re talking about in the Middle Ages that they’re trying to
revive this dead corpse? What are they doing? They’re taking Greek. They’re taking Spanish.
They’re pulling it all in. They’re taking German, right? Right. And by the way, by the way,
no, you know what? Let’s stay above the fray, people. Let’s keep ourselves. Let’s keep ourselves
in the dignified zone i think we’d all like that i think we’d all like that um give me the next one
we’re going to fly through a couple of these um i just wanted you to see yeah here’s that
and i want you to see um we’ve got a little bit of creepage in our definition because
remember the editors there’s a whole bunch of editors to the oxford um greek lexicon and they
will group, they will do something that you saw that guest or guest speaker today, that you saw
him doing, that there is a difference. What they do is they say, look, there are monists and then
there is the culture in which monists live. And the monism creates this barrier where you don’t
know what your neighbor is doing. You don’t speak his language. You don’t use his toothpaste. You
don’t do anything like that, right? That never exists. It’s an impossibility. It’s like living
in a bubble. Nobody lives in a bubble. You’re stained with everything around you, everything
around you. And so it’s creeping in in section A with the word extermination, right? What is
aphanizo in Greek? It means to destroy, to obliterate, to wipe, to take away entirely,
Show me the verb, Chewie.
It’s next.
When you think, wait a minute, isn’t that the same thing as extermination?
No, it’s not.
Watch.
To do away with, to remove, something that is concealed, something that is concealed,
to secret away or steal something, to obscure.
Do you hear where a-fa-need-zo is going?
It has to do with whether or not you can see it.
It’s ah the alpha privative plus fun the base that means to appear so it’s not
Appearing fantastic. Give me the next one. How does this stuff get translated on?
Hebrew side. Um, yeah, do you think you go to the this one? How does this stuff get translated on the?
Go down here on the Hebrew side. Let’s just jump to it. Mmm
Haram to pan to devote to exterminate
Yeah. What is the concept here? Do you want to know what is uniquely Hebrew? If you do,
it’s really, you know, it’s fascinating. Because they left us the Septuagint and then attempted
to translate it, it’s very interesting that you can pick out, you can filter out the cultural
influences from the Hebrew. This word, haram, is very specific in context all the time.
and it means to take a group of people and wipe them out, to take a group of people and dedicate
them to your God of death. Wait a minute. What? Check this out. Check this out. I know that we
don’t get the concept in Greek. We’re trying to creep aphanismos toward it, but we can’t quite
get there, right? Because that evil language of Hellenism, that evil language of Hellenism was
sitting saying, hey, look at democracy, brah. Lots of different people. There are no races.
There’s only two types of people in the world, say the Greeks, right? Which Greeks? The Athenians.
Do you know what they said when the language was at its peak? Do you know what they said?
It’s not about, it’s not about races. It’s about your language. There are those of us who know
mother greek and those of us don’t and those who don’t speak like no music in them whatsoever
you want to be one of those people you want to be one of those anglo-saxons you want to be one of
those oscars you want to be a roman with your latin all right let’s go next one down i think
it’s time for me to call in, call in the sergeant. Um, yeah, yeah. Um, cause what do we do? Oh,
I just wanted to see, um, we’ve got extremities of age here and we’re always talking about that
naked kid with Jesus. He was a man. He’s ghost. Well, we’ve got the young and the old, we’ve got
the extremes. Who are the people that we kill? Who are the people that we perform complete and
total genocide upon in antiquity. Who are these people that we do this to? Those who are outside
of the modest box, right? And who do we kill? The young, from the youngest to the oldest,
men and women, and what else? Even their cattle, right? Their calves, those animals they use that
come under the yoke. You know who I’m talking about. Those works, those work animals. Kill them
all. What are you going to kill them with? You’re going to kill them with the edge of the sword.
What about the gold? The gold you dedicate to the service of God. This concept is not
Hellenistic. It is not. Why? Because Mother Greek embraces everyone. Yeah, they were giving
themselves over people were giving themselves over fantastic amazing um let me call in i think that’s
it we got one more one more chewy and then we’re gonna bring in the drill sergeant people and i’ll
he will answer all of your questions and guide you is take you exactly where you need to be
please listen to him at that time we will look at uh we took all the towns completely i think this
is jesus speaking no no not the one you’re thinking of but the one you call what do you
call jesus oh joshua yeah that’s right um this the you know men women children nothing give me
the next one nothing left let them you know we kill them all right that’s the way go um
look at the uh this is the concept right this is the non-hellenistic concept when you’re taking
that that that filter and you’re shaking out the rocks you know what i mean all the dust is
following to the falling down there on the bottom and all you got left of these bigger rocks on the
top this is what you shake out okay now check out the bottom of this this is the concept in hebrew
of genocide look at the bottom comet pull up the bottom pull up the bottom comet again this is
ancient um the stuff that we think was at a certain time but we don’t have any of it surviving
so let’s see what here we go people read this what is this thing thing hostile to theocracy
and therefore to be either destroyed or in the case of certain objects i.e or ag silver and gold
vessels of brass and iron no reason to destroy that so set apart to sacred uses that’s what we
need to do. This is part of a word. This is part of a word. It’s an expression of human action.
It’s an expression of human action. The language carries this action and it carries it via the
speaker’s beliefs. Did you see tonight all the beliefs? We believe it was here. We believe it
here it’s proposed that is here’s proposed that it’s there we don’t have any that survives what
do we have that survives we have a ton of greek let’s see let’s go ahead and leave that
up for a minute but give me um you know what i’m gonna go grab the sergeant and what i want you to
do is sing happy birthday to jehovah one more time yahoo yahoo when’s your birthday everybody
happy birthday to yahoo happy day to yahoo elohim it was in the third century fantastic i’m glad you
got that introduction now shut up and listen to me i’ve been watching your comments i know what
you’re doing and i admire the fact that there are those of you who are taking initiative doing what
you need to do to get done i’m going to show you tonight as we finish unit one i’m going to show
you tonight where you should be what you should be doing all you have to do is listen to me i know
people are writing and saying you know what i got a terrible grade when i was in when i was in high
school latin that’s because your latin teacher sucked yeah that’s why your latin teacher was not
a true representative of the guild. Fantastic. If they drove you away, they probably drove
everyone away. I’m here to give you the dope to keep you moving. You have got to run these
obstacle courses. What are we doing in unit one? We are getting you to start thinking in Greek
letters, to start thinking in Greek letters. That’s all we’re doing. We’re showing you what
is a verb, a noun, and an adjective, basic words, basic words. Don’t worry. Those are all, you know,
we’re going to give them to you. The ones that you need to know, we’ll give them to you. Don’t
worry. What am I going to do tonight? I’m going to take you on that obstacle course. I want you
to run it with me. Okay. There are those of you who know you can make it through here. And there
those of you who are afraid, I will make you succeed. I will make you succeed. So shut up
and listen to me. Chewy, give me the first slide tonight. Boom. We’re going to do some words
together, people. I’m going to spell this for you. This first one, let’s just spell this together.
Alpha, gamma, omicron, rho, alpha. Oh, isn’t that nice? Now, what have I got here? I’m going to tell
you this once. You will never make a mistake again. This is a noun. This is a noun. Do you
know how I knew that so quickly? Because look at the tail end of the entry. It’s got an eta there
with a rough breathing over it, a hey. That’s a definite article. Nouns get definite articles.
What is a definite article? It’s our word, the, the. It’s a little bit more sophisticated than
I or the and a or on, right? It’s a little more sophisticated. You’ll get to enjoy the definite
article, but that’s how I know it’s a noun. This is a noun. What is an agora? Agora. That first
word that you see, that’s the nominative case. Remember, I told you to memorize nominative,
genitive, dative, accusative. Those four cases, always in that order. Nominative, genitive,
dative, accusative. What is this? The first one is the nominative. The second one is the genitive.
Agoras. Agoras. Good. Notice over the alpha, please, is a smooth breathing. It looks like
an apostrophe. You’re not going to call that an apostrophe. You’re going to call it a smooth
breathing. In our new language that will open your brain, it’s a smooth breathing. What is a
smooth breathing. Has no H sound. Rough breathing. The other way. Open parentheses. That has an H
sound accompanying with this. This is smooth breathing. No H sound. Good. Agoura. Agouras.
Hey, what is that? It’s a marketplace. It’s a place for you to go and exchange and to interact.
Oh, God. And people say it’s like a grocery store. No, it’s not. You can go see doctors. You can do
all sorts of stuff. You can meet there. I’ll meet you in the marketplace. Let’s get some fruit.
Give me the next one. Watch this, people. I want you to spell these words out. This is your
vocabulary. Look at it and say alpha, delta, epsilon, lambda, phi, omicron, sigma. I’m going
to do it again. Alpha, delta, epsilon, lambda, phi, omicron, sigma. Look at that sigma on the
end that’s the terminal sigma it’s the one that looks like the snake otherwise it’s a little it’s
an omicron with a little tail on the top part of it looking to the east fantastic what’s its
genitive form ah del fu now what’s going on look at that those last two vowels are omicron upsilon
and those two vowels are what you call a diphthong people have said i saw you i saw you writing about
brother. What’s a diphthong? What’s a diphthong? It’s just two vowels stuck together, and it comes
together to make a different sound. Omicron. Ah. Upsilon. Ooh. What happens when you bring
ah-ooh together? You get ooh. Ah. Here, a little bit of that digamma. A little bit of that digamma
stuck in that oops-lon. Wah. That’s the wah sound. Ooh. Nice. Nice. And its definite article is ho.
Now, that looks different from hey, yes, because hey is feminine, ho is masculine, ta is neuter,
ho, hey, ta, all words for the, that’s called the definite article. And you will know a noun’s
gender because of its definite article. Oh, God. Now, are there exceptions to that? Of course,
there are. Sometimes things are not so obvious, but 99.9999% of the time, I want you to hold
this notion. The definite article shows you the gender of the noun. You want to see the gender
of a noun? Come here now. Come here now. Let me see that gender. Let me see. Oh, this one is neuter.
How do you tell that? You tell it from the definite article. That’s what that tail is
giving you there. Pay attention to it. Give me the next one. Boom. Boom. Anthropos. Anthropo.
You know this thing has got a masculine definite article on it. What is an anthropos? It’s a
person. Don’t say man. I know your book translates it that way. It’s not. It’s a general person.
The anthropology is studying the people. Yes. Gorgeous. One thing I want you to notice what
this word is doing. Now, there’s something going on here that you can’t hear. There’s something
going on. And I love your frightened little minds. I love them. I love them. Oh, God. It’s like,
let’s not go there. Anthropos. Look where the accent is. It’s over. Alpha. Don’t be afraid,
people. For those of you who are not afraid, something’s wrong with you. You should be,
right but for those of you who are afraid everybody everybody don’t worry the drill
sergeant’s yelling at everyone right just follow my instructions look at the accent on this thing
it’s over the alpha but what happens on the genitive the accent jumps to the omega it goes
from anthropos to anthropo and why do we do that because the ending of the word has a diphthong
diphthongs are long they’re long and what happens what do you mean long extra time for you it’s
extra time and when you put that much time into something it’s going to drag that accent toward
it it’s like gravity this is all musical it’s all musical right greek now there’s a lot of classical
scholars out there and you can walk up to one and um you know get their attention slap them
you know, shake them, do, hey, classical philologist, tell me something, right? Tell me
something. Was ancient Greek musical? And they will have to say yes. Unfortunately, we’re not
going to be able to plumb the depths of that musicality. This is something you’ll develop.
You’ll develop a little bit of appreciation, but to the level that the Greeks had it going,
It’s the reason they could say there’s two types of people in the world,
those who speak Greek and those who don’t, right?
The division of the Jew and the Gentile in the Septuagint is a reflection of this very idea.
You say, I thought the ungodly Hellenistic Greek, I thought it was something that came later.
No, no, no.
Do you see why you have to fabricate history by assuming there was a language back then that was called ancient Hebrew?
Do you see why you have to fabricate that history if you’re a theologian or a monist?
Because the authority is in the language.
And if you don’t have a language, you don’t have authority.
Yeah, yeah.
It’s an attempt.
It’s an attempt to adapt.
Good.
Let’s go to the next one. Give me another word, Chewy. Give me another word. Boom. Watch this.
Biblion. Biblio. Look. Read these. Read these. Look at that accent. Biblion. I just want you to
attempt the accent now. Beta. Yoda. Beta. Lambda. Yoda. Omicron. Nu. Spells Biblion.
And what is Biblion? You’re going to say book. No. It’s a scroll. That’s okay. That’s okay.
if you want to translate this book i’ll give you that one notice that this one is neuter
neuter look at the top on the end of it that means it’s neuter neuter okay look none of this
are you learning because you’re a smarty this is just physics this is elements that we’re dealing
with that’s it it’s just physics there’s no um reasoning that you’re going to be um needing
put away your calculators people are shocked when i say that but when they come into greek i tell
you’re gonna have a problem because your brain thinks it’s intelligent right you know so does
mine i suffer from the same from the same humanity right the greek will teach you that you are not
was that somebody at the at the port hang on give me a second give me a second i told you to clamp
down those doors right they’re gonna stormtroopers are gonna keep doing that um chewy we gotta watch
that um give me the next one bum door on door to now what do you know right away about it you saw
the top you know this this is a neuter fantastic it’s a neuter noun what does this one mean door
on the door on is a gift a door on is a gift give me the next one we’re gonna fly through these and
then I want to give you a couple of reviews. People, here’s another type of word. Let’s just
appreciate this little type of word. It’s called a preposition. Preposition. It’s pre-positioned.
Yeah. It’s going to come before a noun, and it’s going to tell you, I can either go into this noun,
I can come out of this noun or I can be in this noun. Ace, into, ek or ex, out of, and in, in.
Prepositions are just positional words. They’re just positional words, right? Under, over, within,
right? Oh, yes, prepositions. Prepositions, they’re going to come before the noun. Excellent
that they govern. Go ahead. Give me the next one. Gorgeous. Look at this gorgeous. Ergon. Ergo.
Right? What is that? It’s a work. What do you talk about when you mention ergonomics? Right?
Ergon means a work. A work. All right? Now, some of these concepts that I’m giving you,
as soon as they’re like seeds, and we put them in your brain, and they blow up. As soon as you
start seeing this thing used, oh God, you’re going to start getting excited and things are going to
happen. You’re going to have certain feelings, certain chemistry is going to be going on. And
it makes me want to say, stop and watch what’s happening to yourself. The Greeks during the
first century to the about second Anno Domini, first BC, they’re very fond of this concept.
Think about this. Think about this intellectually. The contrast between logos and ergon. What is
logos? Logos is reckoning. What is ergon? Doing. What is the difference between reckoning and
doing? Is there some sort of magic physics going on between reckoning or reasoning and making,
acting. Is there a difference between action and being? Linguistically, the grammarians
are quick to point out that this is just the difference between a verb and a noun. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. What does the verb do? It can do two things, right? It can be or it can do.
It can be or it can do. Ergon, logos. Ergon, logos. What is wrapped up in the verb? Ergon
and logos. What is your noun? Your noun is just those things that are affected by the ergon or
the logos. Okay, trust me, by the time you’re done, when somebody says in the beginning was the word,
your mind will go back to the native of the time they wrote it this is the power of the words that
they have for you you’re sitting there do you want this capacity do you want this capacity to do this
and do exactly exactly what i say hit me hit me with the next one um look what i wait a minute
there’s two definite articles here you’re going to say hall or hey why would that be because you
can have a theos that’s a hawk or a hay. And the thing they’re not telling you, because this is an
introductory intensive course. It’s introductory. You’ll find out when you get in the bush. This is
just to train you so you can go out into the bush. And when you’re out there in the bush,
you’re going to find that not everything holds together. We’re going to study 2,000 years
of Greek. And things change. And you got to know in early Greek, in archaic Homeric Greek,
and I’m not talking about a proposed language because we have it. It survives because it
dominated the mind. The Bacchic empire, the mind was everything. And there was no language,
not even latin could stand it right the romans walking around saying we conquered them and they
came back with that language and they conquered us power of greek do you know what you do to your
enemies when all you’ve got is arguments you demonize them there is a movement of people
who will meet the exception of the science and they will demonize it happens all the time it’s
the natural kinetics of the universe. You know what I’m saying. You’re sitting there and you
know what I’m saying. Did my tiny little brain, did my tiny, oh God, it’s so average. My brain
is so average. Was it able to get to these places without Mother Greek? Uh-uh, right?
Special operations soldiers, right? They have it inside them. Those guys, they’re instructors.
they just bring it out. They just bring it out. Know yourself. You know who knows who they are?
Yeah. Somebody who’s brought it out. And the dope that I’m giving you will cause you to bring it
out. Love it. Do you need to be smart? If you did, I wouldn’t be here. Okay. I’m just telling you
that in all honesty. Yeah. Fantastic. It’s humbling. Working with the muse is humbling
because people want to give you credit and they want to tell you oh my god this is jeans this
like this thing what are you saying i’m all i’m giving you are her songs that’s all i’m just
giving you her songs love it go to the next one when you get oh what is that chewy oh that is
gorgeous a gorgeous gorgeous look at the fire play and this gorgeous let’s go to the next one
Nice art, Chewy. Beautiful job. Tell that AI, the services, slave away. Theos, theou,
ho or hey, can be. Can be masculine or feminine. You mean, wait a minute, wait a minute. This
language, this evil language of the Greek is able to envision female divinity. Now, I know all the
monists just laughed. I know they just laughed. The idea of a female divinity, right? Because
monism is atheism, is atheism. DK is a woman. And if you haven’t learned that DK is a woman,
that justice is a woman, maybe Julian was right. Maybe the emperor Julian was right.
The monists will destroy your fairy language, set up a fairy tale, a fairy tale. Why? Did you see
the merch? It’s all about merch. Your greed stains your soul with the stench of ruin. Do you know who
said that? The Furies, the Greek Furies speaking Hellenistic Greek. They said, hey, you, your greed
stains your soul. It’s a stench of ruin. What do we want, people? We’re not here because we
want the fairy tale. We’re here because we want the reasoned logos. We’re here because we want
reality. Give me the next one. Faith. Do you know what faith is good for? Deception. Faith is good
for deception. Faith says, don’t believe what you’re seeing with your senses, what you’re
perceiving don’t trust your brain do you know everything that ancient greek is based upon
everything the whole thing is a foundation it’s got one foundation and that foundation is use
your mind use it serpent was the wisest of all creatures okay here’s three more nouns right what
am i doing people i’m getting you used to the lettering make love to this technique techniques
right technique it’s skill it’s skill these are all feminine by the way hora hora that’s the
countryside let’s go out to the hora and we can energize our uh what is it called that thing
inside of you i don’t know is it here is it here it’s kind of here right don’t think i don’t know
maybe too much up there. Psyche, soul. Where is your soul? It’s in your thumos. It’s in your
thumos. How do you know? When you’re dead, you breathe out your soul. And if you are over the
person dying, you can breathe it in. You can breathe it in. Isn’t that a gorgeous thought?
Isn’t that a gorgeous thought? Psyche. Do you know who fell in love with your soul, Psyche?
I’ll give you a hint. He’s a handsome devil and he’s got wings and a bow and he’s got arrows
and he shoots those into Psyche. What I am telling you is a mystery. It’s the mystery of the
Dawnbringer. It’s the mystery of Eros. Eros. Now, if you’re an atheist and you don’t worship Eros,
i am sorry for your spouse i am sorry um ladies of frustration please hang in there hang in there
salvation is coming let’s go let’s go to the next one what what else do we have give it to them
they’ve got to love this stuff give it give it to them i’m gonna give it it’s gonna be right down
the chute give it to me next one next one boom um couple of verbs couple of verbs remember this
chapter, we’re focusing really on nouns, right? We’re going to hit verbs next two units because
verbs are the big machines. They’re the big machines of the language. So for right now,
we’re hitting you with the verbs. I mean, with the nouns, we’re going to hit you with adjectives as
well. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. We’ll get there. Here are two verbs, paidewe, paidewe. Look at how
I’m pronouncing it? Pi-de-way. You hear my di-gamma coming out of the epsilon? Pi-de-way.
It means to teach. Please, somebody, look at the root pi-de. P-alpha-e-ota-delta. By the way,
somebody asked the question. I saw this in the correspondence somewhere. What’s another primer
that I should get? If you get another primer, get out. Do not get any other tool. Stay on this
course i can promise you i can promise you all they do and i say that seriously all that does
um is cause confusion yeah i have to undo for example what books like i’ve got one right here
reading koine greek that thing is so bad it is so bad if somebody’s been in that text i have to
undo the damage that was done to them. Granted, they’re always thankful, and it’s usually
seminarians. They’re always thankful, but it’s a damaging process, people. I want you to stick
with our text. Please stick with our intensive Greek by Hanson and Quinn. Here, give me that
Chewy. Stick with our intensive Greek, our intensive course. You got it, people. You got
it and people please do not do not buy the chemical muse um somebody sent me an email it’s
two thousand dollars i have not made anything from that and i will not make anything from that
i won’t right all you’re doing is you are wasting your resources and i want to take away food from
your family right get clever find it there are ways there are ways if that’s and that’s fantastic
if you do. Find it. You’ll know how to find it. My God, man, hoist a flag with skull and bones
on that thing and find it. Find it. You mean you’re undercutting yourself. I can’t tell you
how many people don’t understand. Your greed stains your soul with the stench of ruin. Have
you ever seen me advertise anything? Do you see a poster of my book? Do you see it? You don’t,
and you never will. And why is that? Why is that? Because the devil told me, you be one of those
back alleys. You’d be one of those back alley blanks. I can’t say it on YouTube. And you know
what I’m going to do to you? And then he went through a list of things, a litany, a litany.
Most of them had to do with parts of me that I don’t want to expose. Money, greed, your greed
says that winged gorgeous devil. Your greed stains your soul with the stench of ruin. Do you know
where? Now, remember, this is a great concept and I want you to be absorbing these great concepts.
Eros is a purifier. Do you know what you cannot do? You cannot offer a lover cash and buy their
love. You can’t do it. The one who is in love will cross oceans, will suffer disease, will do
everything in the world for that love. That’s eros. You can’t buy eros, right? You can’t buy
eros. Do you know what is not classical? Yeah. You know what is not classical? Greed. It’s
constantly, constantly. When Jesus came along and he said it was the root of all evil, he said the
love, that desire for profit. In Greek, the word is the desire for profit. It’s translated as the
love of money. It’s not. It’s the drive for profit, for making profit. Making over what you need to
survive is called greed. And what happens? The muse doesn’t like greed, hates greed, evaporates
in the presence of greed. It’s a part of the pact with the devil, people. We need this esoteric
knowledge, and in order to acquire it, you got to purge your greed. Purge your greed. Boom. That
is one of the evil ideas of Hellenism. That is one of the ideas. It’s not the idea of annihilation
and extermination. It is the idea that greed is a destroyer of democracy. Isn’t that gorgeous?
You want to rule yourselves? Get rid of your greed. Love it. Love it so much. Yeah. Throw
your money like that. Throw your money in there. Right? See what I mean? Jesus. Oh, soul sucker.
now come on come on in all fairness soul sucking has gotten a black eye yeah definitely definitely
it’s definitely gotten a black eye um carl marx spoke age no stop it purple stop it i’m glad you
brought up this point carl marx did not speak ancient greek carl marx was a classicist he
studied and translated ancient Greek yeah that’s what we have to do we’re not
here to speak ancient Greek because when you say he spoke ancient Greek what
you’re doing is you’re making ancient Greek a modern Greek you are making it a
language that is a spoken language you’re making it an active process and
that is not how you learn a language that is no longer an active language you
have to draw that distinction. You don’t go in learning to speak it. You go in learning to
translate it. Your mind crawls into bed with these gorgeous concepts. Now, Purple, I know where you
were going. Karl Marx, what’s that way? I don’t know. What is that? Does anybody know what that
means? I don’t know what that means. Yeah, I’m French. Very good. That’s okay. Look at this,
by the way uh good good the french oh god oh god thank you for joining us your unique courage your
old celtic courage yeah love it and by the way total devotees of eros total kudos kudos to all
the french kudos you know what i was in i was just south of dijon and french purple will be able to
tell you oh god he’s in that gorgeous country of the vine right who do you think bacchus passed on
all of his knowledge to it’s buried in the french countryside in those vines those california vines
have nothing on those french vines i stood with a frenchman his wine he was dressed in his got his
big boots on um he’s dressed with overalls he’s working he’s doing his his vineyarding and he says
hey try this try this lovely and it was like metallic mushroom dirt it felt like i was being
energized by some kind of maternal maternal sauce of the cosmos oh god no don’t underestimate
the classical wisdom that lies buried in french culture it’s gorgeous absolutely gorgeous
makes me envious thank you purple good comment go to go to the next one i want to keep us on
task here tonight watch people here’s a couple of sentences now we’ve learned nouns and i threw up a
couple of verbs there do you now we’re just going to put it together and i want to show you how to
do this the first word ha there’s a definite article the homeros that’s our word homer
homeros homer homer what jump all the way to the end there’s the verb by dayway homer teaches
ton anthropon, the man. Homer teaches the person. Look at me. I did it. You’re not supposed to do
that. Homer teaches the person. Watch. Now, how do I know this isn’t the person teaches Homer?
Because Homer is in the nominative case with that ending os. It’s a nominative case. He’s got to be
the subject. Ton anthropon is in the accusative case. How did I know that? If I knew my definite
articles, it would be obvious. We’ve got to know our definite articles then, right? That’s just
the next thing we got to do. So Homer teaches the man. What about the one underneath that?
Now watch what happens to Homer. Look, it switched its ending from a nominative to a genitive.
And what is the ha going with it?
The ha is a nominative case as well.
So it can’t be accompanying the homeru because that’s genitive.
It would have to be tu.
So what is the ha accompanying?
It’s accompanying Adelphos, the brother homeru of Homer.
Do you remember how I want you to translate genitives?
Of somebody.
It’s possession of somebody.
So the subject is Adelphos, brother, Homer, who is in the genitive case, of Homer, the brother of Homer.
What does the brother of Homer do?
By the way, he educates.
Who does he educate?
Ton anthropon.
Nice accusative case there.
You see the accusative ton anthropon with that on ending on the end of it?
Good.
It’s an accusative case.
It’s the object of the verb.
All right.
Look, that’s all you need to be knowing.
Now, what am I doing to you that you don’t realize it?
I’m cramming.
I’m super or hyper exposing you to the Greek.
You’re being forced to follow it.
And I know there’s 80% of you out there who started from ground zero are now saying,
oh, I’m just beginning.
I can kind of follow the words.
I can kind of follow the letters here all put together, right?
We’re running and you’re running with me.
That’s all we’re doing.
Give me the next one.
Another two sentences here.
Look at this.
Ton homerun paidei ho anthropos.
Now, wait a minute.
Where is the nominative?
Where’s the nominative case?
It’s ho anthropos.
You mean the subject is at the end of the sentence?
Yes.
Don’t let your English mind try to work itself out because we don’t put subjects at the end.
We do subject, verb, direct object.
That’s how we do English, right?
Greek doesn’t care about word order.
word order is for barbarians. Word order is for barbarians. You know what the Greeks can do?
They can take 45 words and throw them up in the air. You tell me what that means. Well,
there’s no order to it. Yeah, there doesn’t need to be an order. The endings of the words will
tell you what they’re doing in the sentence. So the subject here is at the end of the sentence,
hoanthropos, the person. The person does what? Paideiwe. Teaches. Ton homeron. What is homeron?
on it’s an accusative so it’s the thing it’s the thing person or place that’s
being taught it’s being acted upon by the verb the person teaches Homer what
does the bottom line say Homer ostus on drop boost by day away where’s your
subject home at us it’s got that OS nominative ending where’s your direct
object to santo post that’s what we’re gonna be acting on is the men notice
they’re in the plural now plural we’ve got singular and plural nouns dog or dogs singular
and plural and so how would you translate that sentence homer teaches the people homer teaches
the people okay now you can go back over these examples and if you do just this last 10 minutes
of what we’ve been working on if you do what i want you to do is i want your eyes to track the
text. I want your eyes to be able to read it. Even if you don’t understand it, because really
what’s going on with you, you’re just learning the alphabet. You’re just at that stage where
you’re learning alphabet again with Delta. That’s it, right? And that’s what we’re trying to do.
We’re trying to reset your mind with the Greek letters. Look at how beautiful these things are.
If I didn’t tell you before, these are superior to English, the English alphabet, Latin alphabet,
That’s because I was derelict in my duty.
Look at the musicality of this language.
Look at that P.
What does that P make you want to do it on the front of Pai Dewey?
Makes me, I don’t know, does something inside of me with the curves.
Look at the curves on that.
Look at how the top just kind of coalesces, right?
It kind of just becomes part of the two.
It’s like a bridge, Pai Dewey.
It’s gorgeous.
I kind of like the omega too.
the omega look at the omega on anthropos excuse me on anthropos on the end of the first line
look at that omega do you see how curvaceous that omega is that’s musical baby that’s musical right
there yeah love it okay let’s stop let’s stop with that um give me another one um look now we’re
gonna get a little more complicated with this first sentence i just want to illustrate one
thing. Look at that third word. Bibliois. Finally, we get a dative case. We’ve had nominative as a
subject, genitive as possession or of. I want you to translate it of something, of Homer. Then we’ve
had the accusative. That’s the fourth one. And it’s always a direct object. The one we’re leaving
out is dative. The dative. And what do you do with the dative? It’s the indirect object. Well,
what does that mean, Maynard? Let me tell you what it means. You’re going to translate it as
to, for, or with. You’re going to try it every time. You know what this sentence says with to,
for, or with? Homer teaches his brother the art with books. You hear that? With books. What is
a dative? It’s a dative of instrument or means. It’s a dative of something that gives you the
capacity to do something. Do you need to remember that when you’re translating? Yeah, you do. But
what do you really need to know what’s the cheat just translate those datives as two four or with
when you’re starting out like this two four with the dative is something beautiful
dating something beautiful and it’s got this yoda in it homer teaches the his brother the skill by
means of books with books good that’s a double accusative on the end ton adel phone and team
text name, double accusative. Now we sound like nerds, right? Now we sound like nerds.
What do you need to take home? Nominative, subject, genitive, possession, dative,
to, for, or with, accusative, direct object to the verb. That’s what the verb’s acting on.
Gorgeous. Give me the next one. I’m just going to fly because I’m taking up way too much of
these professionals’ time, and I respect you guys too much. This chart you must memorize
is from unit one. You must memorize these endings. Notice on the left, nominative, genitive,
dative, and accusative, right? I want you to memorize. People are always telling me,
I can’t get all these things right in my head. I can’t get all these forms right in my head.
Then stop. If it’s not working, then stop. Something’s wrong. Abandon that approach,
right um don’t try to get these things straight build the muscle a ace a an i own ice us what are
those plurals i own ice us what are those plurals in the feminine first declension in greek i own
ice us i have that so programmed in my head and reinforced from the last 35 years that i will
wake up still chanting paradigms. I own ice oz. Do you know why people make fun of those Brits
for their schooling, their young boys and girls in their classes chanting off the Greek endings?
You know what they were doing? They recognized they were building machines of classical
civilization. It’s what you’re doing. You’re doing it with a language. You’re doing it with
a language. Isn’t that fantastic? I am going to capacitate you. Do you know what my job is? It’s
to capacitate you. I’m going to take your brain and I’m going to capacitate it in and out.
Get that chart memorized, people. Next one. Trust me. Trust me. These things will help.
sit on the toilet if you have to i own ice us right well let’s go to the second
declension here’s a chart you got to memorize for the second declension ignore that vocative
at the bottom right of that first column ignore that i just want you to see the nominative
genitive date of an accusative logos logo right what are the endings osu oi on what are they in
the plural oi on ois us oi on ois us what were they found in the feminine i on ice us
make it native make it native how do you do that you listen to cicero come here cicero
pull up your toga what did cicero tell us that nobody ever listens to all right
Repetitio est mater scientiae. What did you say there in your Latin, Cicero? Repetition is the
mother of learning. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. These are reps. What do you think
when you go to the gym? What do you think? Do you stand there and you’re like, oh, I can’t do this.
I can’t. Look, it’s heavy. I can’t lift it up. Well, guess what? You’re going to start reps,
and eventually that thing’s not going to be heavy. You are going to be using your muscle.
It’s the same thing with the Greek. These are the reps that you have to do, right? Now, if I’ve got
30 students in front of me in seminary and I’m forcing them to do reps, yes, there is something
sadistic about it. There is, but there’s a point where the student reaches an internalizing of
these endings that it’s so satisfactory. So satisfactory. Let’s finish up. Last one. What
do we have here? Finally, your definite article. People, ho, hey, and toh. Look at the masculine
definite articles. Ho, tu, toi, ton. Don’t those look like the endings that we’re just seeing? Oh,
they do. Look at the plurals. Hoi, ton, tois, tus. They look a lot like the declensional endings,
so it’s not too far of a jump look at the feminine hey taste a tame high tone
ties toss high tone ties toss high tone dice does right what about the neuter
notice that the newer neutered nominative and accusative are the same
you mean I don’t know in a sentence whether the neuter is the subject to the
object no you have to figure it out you have to figure it out now how are you
don’t not what’s your brain don’t worry but just by the way all of those words
that have been thrown up into the air just by the way it glides around you’ll
see it because what you have to learn with Greek that you don’t have to learn
with English is universal interaction I’m gonna tell you that now and it’s
something that I teach to all of my students through the Greek without them
even knowing it you’re gonna have to throw up a bunch of concepts into the
air and you’re gonna have to be able to see their connections Greek mother
greek is all about teaching you connections let’s go ahead and take it down chewy um for those of
you who are frustrated for those of you who are in a position of being overwhelmed um guess what
we all are we all are and if you’re not you’re not an ancient greek um what we’re doing is we’re
coming from a step down to a much more demanding art the greek language everybody thinks languages
are created equal ancient greek is not english no it’s not chinese either chinese has about
125 000 unique words again that’s time compared to the greek now you’re gonna have to stand up
and expand you’re gonna have to meet the mark and how are you gonna do that
you’re going to memorize those last three charts that i gave you you’re going to do exercises what
i want you to do for next week is i want you to work on any of those sentences that you have in
the exercises of unit one and then i want you to push ahead and i want you to read unit two
we’re going to start reading about verbs next week and i’m in you i will bring up half a dozen
sentences and i will read through them with you and you can check yourself if you try them this
week you can check yourself only the ones that are in the exercises the exercises don’t look at
the drills for now look at the exercises we’re going to be exercising that’s our circuit that
we run okay now um i want to tell you before we end today i want to tell you i have to set you up
to receive this kind of advanced knowledge.
When you’re on that course,
if you can’t do sit-ups and push-ups,
you’re never going to get to that point
where you can climb, scale that giant obstacle fearlessly.
That’s where we have to get you,
and that’s what I’m working on for you.
So please, people, please,
until the next time we meet,
those of you who are actively pursuing the Greek,
Please try some exercises and read Unit 2.
We are not going to accept any money.
We are still not monetized.
Please do not listen to strangers who try to lure you into intellectual back alleys
where they can take advantage of you.
You are the intellectual marines of the Renaissance.
Thank you for coming tonight.
hail satan
Source: Lady Babylon