Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I want to talk about the sort of Damocles today.

You've probably heard of this thing. It's a cautionary tale that dates all the way back to

fourth century Greek culture on the island of Sicily and the kingdom of Syracuse.

I mean typically we think of that as being Roman or Italian territory but back then

there were Greek outposts there and there's his king and his name is Dionysus and he did some pretty

questionable things to become king and he's got a guy who works in his court who really

digs out comfortable it must be in order to be king and that guy's name is Damocles and

then this whole thing unfolds that will creates a really interesting

metaphor that we're going to talk about today but as much as I would love to give

you the long elaborate ham-fisted details I think it be way more fun to just

play for you the best explanation of the sort of Damocles anecdote that I've ever

heard anybody tell and it's from legendary Los Angeles Dodgers baseball broadcaster

Vin Scully and a few years ago during a baseball game in the second inning of a

game against the San Diego Padres Vin Scully just goes off on this story about how the pitcher for the Dodgers, a guy named

Chad Billingsley, is feeling a lot of pressure.

Like there's not a lot of forgiveness, there's not a lot of leash here right now for him to make mistakes, and well I'm just going to let him tell you the rest of the story you can hear how it plays out

Top of the second inning two outs runners on first and second zero zero ballgame

Chad Billings leave of the Dodgers pitching

Vince Scully on the call give it a listen. We often talked about Chad Billingsley saying

that he pitches with the sword of Damocles over his head.

That's an old Greek legend.

The ruler was Dionysius and he had a guy

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