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| Enchanted Peace is fast growing, fragrant, and about seven feet tall. They seem to have lasted the fickle Arkansas winter. |
Planting roses is always a bit tricky. I have used bare root roses shipped from various companies. They need to be soaked in water - rain water is best - for days or quite a few days. I kept some in water indoors when we had an early harsh cold spell. Digging them in would have bent my shovel and wrecked their new growth. This time I waited for rain and went to a gardening center for potted roses, not to be confused with potted bishops (purple shirt) and suffragen bishops (purple buttons).
They were featuring David Austen roses in full bloom, so I got them, the most beautiful roses I have seen. I already had some Queen of Sweden roses for chapel for Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday chapels. Tuesday and Thursday are seminary lectures. Wednesday is New Testament Greek lessons. All are at 11 AM and they are saved on this link, the latest one on top. The link for all YouTubes is here -
Click here for all previous YouTubes
The link is at the bottom of the masthead area on Ichabod.
Would Greek be left alone since it is shunned by seminaries everywhere? I already see 19 views, which may be curiosity but it is a good start. The new fad is "Summer Greek" which means a superficial start on Greek and splashing in the fountain after a few weeks (Concordia St. Louis). Wartburg Seminary, ELCA, demands $3,000 cash in advance for their summer Greek. When are people going to learn that Greek for pastors is necessary, not a short spell in Purgatory? It also opens up our knowledge of English, which is very close to the Koine Greek of the New Testament.
"The Romans had the drains, but the Greeks had the brains." Ancient Greek Epigram
Future Greek lessons will feature well known New Testament passages in Greek only. That makes it easier to connect the English with the Greek, because we can easily translate the Greek of - for instance - the Beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer or John 3:16. [Note to ELCA - you remember John 3:16, don't you?]
I think we can get reasonably priced Greek NTs from the KJV source - Trinitarian Bible Society.
The Stephanus Greek NT is already on Biblegateway.com - courtesy of the NIV chaps.
Paine NT textbooks can be found used by summer Greek NT students. Just kidding. I used the Paine in 1966, so it is a long liver. I ignore grammar as much as possible, but learning Greek grammar helps our English, don't it?
