Bethany Lutheran Greek Lessons. John 5

 Near Springdale, Arkansas

John 9:7King James Version (KJV)

7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ 51550 Stephanus New Testament (TR1550)

5 μετα ταυτα, ην εορτη των ιουδαιων και ανεβη ο ιησους εις ιεροσολυμα

 Bethesda, John 5

2 εστιν δε εν τοις ιεροσολυμοις επι τη προβατικη, κολυμβηθρα, η επιλεγομενη εβραιστι βηθεσδα, πεντε στοας εχουσα

3 εν ταυταις κατεκειτο πληθος πολυ των ασθενουντων, τυφλων, χωλων, ξηρων, εκδεχομενων την του υδατος κινησιν

4 αγγελος γαρ κατα καιρον κατεβαινεν εν τη κολυμβηθρα και εταρασσεν το υδωρ. ο ουν πρωτος εμβας μετα την ταραχην του υδατος υγιης εγινετο - ω δηποτε κατειχετο νοσηματι

5 ην δε τις ανθρωπος εκει τριακοντα-οκτω ετη εχων εν τη ασθενεια

6 τουτον ιδων ο ιησους κατακειμενον και γνους οτι πολυν ηδη χρονον εχει λεγει αυτω θελεις υγιης γενεσθαι

7 απεκριθη αυτω ο ασθενων κυριε ανθρωπον ουκ εχω ινα οταν ταραχθη το υδωρ βαλλη με εις την κολυμβηθραν - εν ω δε ερχομαι εγω αλλος προ εμου καταβαινει

8 λεγει αυτω ο ιησους εγειραι αρον τον κραββατον σου και περιπατει

9 και ευθεως εγενετο υγιης ο ανθρωπος και ηρεν τον κραββατον αυτου και περιεπατει -ην δε σαββατον εν εκεινη τη ημερα

10 ελεγον ουν οι ιουδαιοι τω τεθεραπευμεν

"σαββατον!εστιν ουκ εξεστιν σοι αραι τον κραββατον"

11 απεκριθη αυτοις ο ποιησας με υγιη εκεινος μοι ειπεν αρον τον κραββατον σου και περιπατει

12 ηρωτησαν ουν αυτον τις εστιν ο ανθρωπος ο ειπων σοι αρον τον κραββατον σου και περιπατει

13 ο δε ιαθεις ουκ ηδει τις εστιν ο γαρ ιησους εξενευσεν οχλου οντος εν τω τοπω

14 μετα ταυτα ευρισκει αυτον ο ιησους εν τω ιερω και ειπεν αυτω ιδε υγιης γεγονας μηκετι αμαρτανε ινα μη χειρον τι σοι γενηται

15 απηλθεν ο ανθρωπος και ανηγγειλεν τοις ιουδαιοις οτι ιησους εστιν ο ποιησας αυτον υγιη

16 και δια τουτο εδιωκον τον ιησουν οι ιουδαιοι και εζητουν αυτον αποκτειναι οτι ταυτα εποιει εν σαββατω

17 ο δε ιησους απεκρινατο αυτοις ο πατηρ μου εως αρτι εργαζεται καγω εργαζομαι

18 δια τουτο ουν μαλλον εζητουν αυτον οι ιουδαιοι αποκτειναι οτι ου μονον ελυεν το σαββατον αλλα και πατερα ιδιον ελεγεν τον θεον ισον εαυτον ποιων τω θεω

19 απεκρινατο ουν ο ιησους και ειπεν αυτοις αμην αμην λεγω υμιν ου δυναται ο υιος ποιειν αφ εαυτου ουδεν εαν μη τι βλεπη τον πατερα ποιουντα-α γαρ αν εκεινος ποιη ταυτα και ο υιος ομοιως ποιει

  

20 ο γαρ πατηρ φιλει τον υιον και παντα δεικνυσιν αυτω α αυτος ποιει και μειζονα τουτων δειξει αυτω εργα ινα υμεις θαυμαζητε

21 ωσπερ γαρ ο πατηρ εγειρει τους νεκρους και ζωοποιει ουτως και ο υιος ους θελει ζωοποιει

22 ουδε γαρ ο πατηρ κρινει ουδενα αλλα την κρισιν πασαν δεδωκεν τω υιω

23 ινα παντες τιμωσιν τον υιον καθως τιμωσιν τον πατερα ο μη τιμων τον υιον ου τιμα τον πατερα τον πεμψαντα αυτον

24 αμην αμην λεγω υμιν οτι ο τον λογον μου ακουων και πιστευων τω πεμψαντι με εχει ζωην αιωνιον και εις κρισιν ουκ ερχεται αλλα μεταβεβηκεν εκ του θανατου εις την ζωην

Andover-Newton To Amalgamate with Yale-Berkeley Divinity School, Following the Martin Luther College Model of Merging and Absorbing

The Day Mission Library at Yale Divinity is considered one of the
most beautiful libraries in America.
The RSV was plotted next door in the main library of YDS.

Andover-Newton, a merged liberal seminary founded in 1807, will merge  with Yale Divinity School, which amalgamated with the Episcopal seminary in New Haven. Originally, Andover was formed as a Calvinist school, splitting with Harvard, which was becoming loosey-goosey.

Andover-Newton has endowments and property equity but very few students - 219 on Wiki, but probably an exaggeration. The school is affiliated with the almost-Unitarian United Church of Christ and the equally apostate American (aka Northern aka Social Gospel) Baptists.
The American Baptists are easily distinguished from the Southern Baaabtists by the way they pronounce their affiliation. Baaabtists do not consider this funny.

Sterling Library at Yale is breath-taking.

The interior of Sterling is equally impressive.

Light and Verity -

In 1807, while president of Yale, Timothy Dwight helped found the nation’s first graduate theological seminary—in Andover, Massachusetts. “He was so focused on making us a seminary that he didn’t live to see one at Yale,” says Sarah Birmingham Drummond ’93, dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at the Andover Newton Theological School. It was not until 1822 that Yale founded its own divinity school.More than 200 years later, Andover Newton and Yale Divinity School (YDS) are looking to join forces. The schools announced in May that they are exploring a plan in which Andover Newton would come to Yale as an affiliated institution. In the first phase, beginning this fall, four Andover Newton professors will join YDS as visiting faculty. If it all works out, a more permanent arrangement would begin in the fall of 2017, with “Andover Newton at Yale” becoming a part of YDS. Six Andover Newton faculty, staff, and administrators would move to Yale, offering courses and support for students who want to be ministers in one of several Protestant denominations.

The product of a 1965 merger of the Andover Theological Seminary (the school Timothy Dwight helped found) and the Newton Theological Institution, Andover Newton trains ministers for service in denominations with congregational polity—that is, their local churches are largely autonomous. It has formal relationships with the United Church of Christ and the American Baptist Church and also trains ministers in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. It has 12 faculty and 175 students on its 20-acre campus in Newton, Massachusetts. If the plan goes forward, most current Andover Newton students would finish their education in Massachusetts over the next two years.

Like most mainline Protestant seminaries, Andover Newton is facing an existential crisis in an age of religious disaffiliation. Some of its peers have closed or merged with larger institutions, and Andover Newton sees an affiliation with Yale as a way to continue its primary mission. “We have a beautiful campus here, but so much of our financial resources go into maintaining it,” says Drummond. “Selling it was already an inevitability.”Administrators say the relationship of the seminary to YDS would be similar to that of the Berkeley Divinity School, a formerly freestanding Episcopal seminary that became part of Yale in 1971. In that arrangement, YDS students interested in Episcopal priesthood affiliate with Berkeley, take specialized courses, and earn a diploma from Berkeley in addition to their Yale degree. YDS maintains faculty slots for professors with expertise in Episcopal theology and polity.

A silversmith funded Marquand Chapel.

Newton began next door to Andover,
and Andover proves the old adage -
"Young Calvinist, Old Unitarian."

Stan Hauerwas wrote that everyone in Texas is a Babtist -
even the Methodists are Babtists.

Regenerative Farming and Regenerative Yale Divinity. Insights for the Gardener

Tropicana is blooming again.

While grading, I listened to various YouTubes on regenerative farming. My favorite speaker is Gabe Brown, but there are many other experts who have videos as well.

The new Yale Divinity dorm could feature
the compost drum. Lutheran School of Chicago dedicated this compost drum about 6 years ago. 

Yale Divinity School sent me a glorious color magazine that features the regenerative dormitory they want to build. I can fund it and name it for $10 million. Although Yale Divinity chokes at talking about Creation, they are really dealing with the concept of God's magnificent handiwork, His engineering, and His management of all that He fashioned through the Word. He invented re-cycling, no?

Another buzzword is sustainability, although that includes quite a bit of Left-wing political activism. Increasing carbon for the soil is linked with absorbing greenhouse gasses (Carbon Dioxide), global warming, fake statistics, and the rants of Al Gore and Company.

New Insights about Creation Gardening
I have been reading about organic gardening since Dow Library days in Midland, in the 1980s. I read many books from Rodale Press and bought quite a few as well.

I am going to condense some new insights that I learned from Gabe Brown and others.

Armor for the Soil
God covers the soil - always, but man often leaves it bare. Although I was aware of all the benefits of mulch, these people argue - through research - that cover crops prevent drought by increasing the ability of the soil to absorb rain and snow.

Cover crops, if diverse, also host a wide variety of beneficial bugs. "Why use pesticide when fewer than 1% of the bugs are pests?"

Cover crops mine nitrogen from the soil. "Above one acre of farmland are 35,000 tons of nitrogen. Why buy nitrogen when God provides it for free. Plant legumes - peas, beans, vetch."

Cover Crops Suppress Weeds, Add Energy
I have been considering using more tiny plants to occupy territory in the rose gardens. One reason is that mulch attracts wind blown seeds and bird-donated seeds. Weeds are easily pulled or suppressed, except a couple that vex me - English ivy and Bermuda grass.

Buckwheat, White Clover, and Wild Strawberries are low growing, not obtrusive. Studies show that much of the soil improvement comes from the activity of roots. Some can also exclude weeds entirely - as Buckwheat has proven, while adding food and shelter for beneficial bugs.
Dutch White Clover has excluded almost all the grass in the backyard, simply by surviving the extensive rain we have had.

Carbon for the Soil
The chemical gardening books pooh-poohed manure. To wit - "Manure and tree leaves are just carbon, etc. No real NPK." These farmers realize that carbon feeds the fungal jungle, and these fungi grow from the carbon, feeding and watering the roots.

Some videos argue that rich soil absorbs carbon from the atmosphere. I find that whole line of "greenhouse gasses" bizarre and fraudulent. I have no idea what chemistry they are talking about with CO2 being absorbed.

The fact is, when I was reading everything possible about soil in the 1980s, fungus was mentioned largely as a problem - not as the most basic activity of soil.

A farmer with thousands of acres has to figure out the cost and benefits of his actions. Gabe Brown freely confesses that four straight disasters in farming forced him to learn about the soil and discover the value of natural methods, building the soil that builds the farm.