Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them.

And we need all the power that we can get.

I'm your host, Carrie Mielstein, and I'm so happy to have with me a returning guest that you heard before when we talked about Grace and Charis, the Greek word that we were discussing and so on.

I have with me Brent Schmidt, who teaches at BYU, Idaho.

And you heard before our introduction of all the Greek that he studied and Claremont and so on and so on,

but we're just excited to have you back with us, Brent. Thank you for coming back.

Thank you, Kerry. It's a pleasure to be on your show. Thank you. So tell us,

there anything else we should know about you? I think last time we talked about the New Testament

commentary you're involved in, did we not?

Yes, yes. I actually got to go to a meeting earlier today. It was just a Zoom meeting.

I live in Idaho, so I don't get to go down to Provo as much as I'd like to. And we were discussing

2nd Corinthians volume that is supposed to be coming out on November 2nd in print.

And some of the volumes have already come out.

This is the first Corinthians volume that's also written by Draper and Rhodes, and they are

also going to be publishing the second Corinthians volume.

So I got to edit both of these volumes, Second Corinthians about a year

ago. I started receiving all the chapters. And there's lots of things I think that can help us to be

better disciples in Corinthians. I always try to share with my students when I teach these

epistles to the Corinthians, that

Corinth was a very worldly, we might say from a Latter-day Saint perspective, Wicked city in the ancient

world.

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