What's up, everybody? It's Matt. It's the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. This business that

we're looking at at the end of Matthew chapter 22 here, where Jesus is making an attempt

to reason with the Pharisees. All of it hinges on a reference to an Old Testament passage

he uses some weird language that isn't really the way we talk anymore. But it's kind

of reminiscent of Encoun in the Barbarian when Arnold is like, uh, the greatest thing.

What's the greatest thing of all? The greatest thing is to cost you all enemies, to dive

them before you. And they had the lamentations of their women. It's the best delivered

line in the history of film. That's one of those things. You hear him say it is just

shocking because who really thinks that's the greatest thing in all of life? Gross, man.

But also it gets you inside the head of this uncivilized, dark time and fantasy history

that the story of Conan the Barbarian is trying to whisk you away to. And that language

is reminiscent of the way people talked in the ancient Near East in different times about

conquests and what it meant to defeat somebody else. I mean, people made entire gigantic

artistic compositions that they commissioned for gazillions of dollars from the royal treasury

to celebrate the awesomeness of their victory. And if you go to the British Museum,

there's this whole wall up there, this gigantic relief sculpture that was hauled back from,

I don't know, where I guess maybe Nineveh or around Nineveh somewhere. And it depicts the Assyrian

siege of Lockheese. It's pretty amazing because it's art from Bible times that depicts an event

that was written about in the Bible and the art was made at the same time that it was written

about. This is pretty crazy. But this is indicative of how people thought there was this notion

of not just defeating your enemies, but making it clear to everyone that your enemies were

defeated because it sends a message to everybody else not to mess with you or who it is, who has the

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