"Why Study Greek"

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun Dec 12 08:27:48 EST 1999


At 06:43 AM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>How noble our reasons for studying Greek:
>How base the use to which we put the knowledge.
>
>The Hebrew gods spoke Hebrew, the Chinese gods Chinese, the
>Greek gods Greek. How cursed are we whose gods spoke no English!
>I fear this dooms us to the letter rather than the spirit.
>
>(I find it all so curious that as soon as Man learned to read,
>the gods stopped talking.)
>
>It would seem that Protestantism is one of the few, organized religions
>which fails to recognize that a fool who speaks Greek is yet a fool.
>
>I study Greek to try to cuddle up to that perverse creature-- Religion.



and all this answers the question posed how?  and is relevant to what?

jim

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