Ep. 130: The Hard Question
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
How can we retain a sense of joy in the teeth of suffering? What does it mean to forgive? These hard and painful questions are the subject of the second installment in Spencer Klavan's series on Thomas Traherne and Matthew 6. Breaking down the Greek of the gospels and using Traherne as a guide, Spencer points the way to a joy that persists even when happiness doesn't.
--
How can you learn Latin, Ancient Greek, or Biblical Hebrew in order to read the classics of the ancient western world, in their original language? Get 10% off of your Ancient Language Institute course with promo code HERETICS: https://ancientlanguage.com/heretics.
--
Indeed is the hiring partner where you can attract, interview, and hire all in one place. Get a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post at https://Indeed.com/HERETICS.
--
Cozy Earth was created to enhance people's lives by offering the softest, most luxurious, and responsibly sourced bedding in the world. Go to CozyEarth.com/HERETICS and save 35% off your order.
--
Public Goods is the one stop shop for sustainable, high quality everyday essentials made from clean ingredients. Receive $15 off your first Public Goods order at https://publicgoods.com/HERETICS.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. |
| 0:09.5 | It is twice blessed. It blesseth him the gifts and him the takes. |
| 0:16.0 | It is mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes the thrown in monarch better than his crown. |
| 0:22.0 | His scepter shows the force of temporal power. The attribute to awe and majesty wherein |
| 0:29.4 | doth sit the dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this scepter's sway. |
| 0:36.8 | It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. It is an attribute to God himself and earthly power |
| 0:45.2 | to thend show likeest gods when mercy seasons justice. I hope that I've been making a good |
| 0:55.9 | advertisement for learning biblical Greek with some of this attention to the details of the gospel |
| 1:01.8 | and what you can learn from paying attention to the original language. And now I want to commend |
| 1:05.8 | to you the ancient language institute. If you want to get this up close and personal encounter |
| 1:11.6 | with the texts, the great texts of the west from antiquity, there is no better place to go for |
| 1:16.4 | instruction than ALI. They really do a great job diving right into reading. A lot of times you feel |
| 1:23.8 | like you have to just memorize your way, wage your way through all of these lists of vocab and |
| 1:28.8 | and conjugation and grammar and so forth. But angel languages and suits really practical. They can |
| 1:33.2 | get you reading in Greek, Latin and biblical Hebrew, whichever one you want to pick to start with. |
| 1:38.0 | And they get you reading the greats. You get the poets of a custom room, you get the the Bible, |
| 1:44.7 | both in Hebrew and in Greek, and some of the great attic writers as well. When you go to ancientlanguage.com, |
| 1:51.7 | slash young heretics and use the promo code heretics, ancientlanguage.com slash heretics, promo code |
| 1:57.8 | heretics, you will get 10% off their tuition. They take people of all ages and skill levels and |
| 2:04.1 | and they really can meet you where you are ancientlanguage.com slash young heretics, use the promo code |
| 2:09.5 | heretics. Okay, that is a speech from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Act 4 scene 1, which is not |
| 2:18.4 | the work that we're reading together today. This is not an episode about merchant of Venice. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Spencer Klavan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Spencer Klavan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.