Okay, there's a part of a Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim where he's been formed and he's gone through all the trials with the spirits and then he

announces himself to the world and finally reveals to Bob Cratchit that he's come to his senses and all of that and when in the movie version when

Bob Cratchit goes out Alistair Sim as Scrooge just can't control his laughter

and he has this great line where he says I don't

deserve to be so happy but I can't help it I just can't help it that's how I

feel right now I don't deserve to be this happy but I can't help it. I have questions about

translation to answer. I'm so excited. I know it's really dorky but last

week I introduced this segment called

words words words where I thought I would help talk you guys through some of the

questions you might have about how to translate things and how to trust a translation if you only read English or if you don't read the original language of a text that you want to read.

And I specifically mentioned if there are passages in the Bible or in other texts that you are confused about, you've heard different things about, you wanted to know more, you should send them into me, and you guys obliged. That's amazing because as I have said this is my favorite

thing to talk about. I love doing these sorts of things so please keep the

questions coming. You can write to me by going into the description of this episode and clicking on the

link where it says sign up for my substack. It's Rejoysevermore. Substack.com. And that's how you get on my mailing list. A couple things will happen then you'll get a Friday email for me with a little essay newsletter type thing. You'll also if you want to support me financially you definitely can and to do that you just

have to upgrade to paid and then you'll get a few extra things once a week I'll send out one

other thing right now one of the big things that you get for the paid subscription is you get this audio book of John Milton's Paradise Lost which I'm reading aloud bit by bit so you'll get those emails with those updates as I add to that audio book but there's a bunch of other

stuff extra essays you will get to be in on our discussion about meditations on the

tarot which is a totally mind-blowing book so head over there and the other thing that you

can do when you subscribe at rejoicevermore dot substick.com is you can be in the mailbag

and you can write into me with texts or issues that you want me to translate, talk about,

discuss how to deal with and so forth.

So I've got a bunch of them to work through.

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