Words, Words, Words 9: Mary Mary, Quite Contrary
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's not every podcast that comes with a disclaimer, but this one is just spicy enough that it needs a warning on the label. I got a great and fascinating question about how to translate a passage from John's Gospel...and the answer will take me into Mary's status in the church, the meaning of the word "the," and the cosmic significance of each of our lives. How's that for a Friday afternoon?*
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*Words words words is a subsidiary of Young Heretics hosted by Spencer Klavan and represents exclusively the views of one dudebro books podcaster on exclusively those lexical matters he chooses to address. It has not been approved by the USCCB and is not intended to throw shade on or resolve disputes among Christians including but not limited to Catholics, Anglicans, evangelicals, baptists, anabaptists, katabaptists, parabaptists, pseudobaptists, and baptists with funny hats, regarding issues pertaining but not limited to the perpetual virginity of Mary, her immaculate conception, her experience of labor, her preference for the Browns over the Packers, or her views on the seasoning of fish. Side effects may include morphological fixation and fine grained knowledge of Biblical Greek; if either of these persist longer than a languid afternoon spent leafing through dictionaries and sighing like a character in a Victorian novel, consult your pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I hope you are doing just great on this fine Friday. |
| 0:06.0 | It's a little bit rainy and gray here in Nashville, but we're settling in for another episode of |
| 0:11.0 | words, words, I kind of want to call this one |
| 0:14.3 | Word because there's only one word, but it causes a whole lot of problems. Okay, so on Fridays, we wear, I guess gray, I'm wearing gray today not pink and we talk about translation |
| 0:35.6 | which is one of my favorite subjects and if you've heard me talk about it before you |
| 0:40.1 | know that I basically think everything is about translation and translation is about everything. |
| 0:44.4 | So one of the most exciting and entertaining parts of this segment is that it always takes me off into |
| 0:50.5 | unexpected sort of rabbit warrens that I didn't know I was going to go down until I start |
| 0:55.0 | thinking about your excellent questions which truly are excellent. I hope you will keep |
| 0:59.0 | them coming. You can |
| 1:05.0 | just respond to the emails that I send out to my substack list however you want to do it. |
| 1:10.6 | I know I know I know that I have lots in the inbox already. It's an embarrassment of riches. Thank you for sending them to me. I can't respond individually to everything, but I do read them all and I love thinking about each of them and even if I don't directly answer your question sometimes |
| 1:25.3 | Some of the things you ask set me off in a particular direction as I'm answering different questions so in the past couple of weeks we've been doing long-ish series on one |
| 1:36.8 | question and this time I have just a one-off something that is a particular verse |
| 1:41.9 | question. If you've got a question about a particular verse question. |
| 1:42.8 | If you've got a question about a specific verse in the Bible |
| 1:45.4 | or a particular page in some work of great literature |
| 1:49.0 | and you want to know about translational ambiguities, |
| 1:51.4 | that's a great subject for a words words words kind of question and |
| 1:54.8 | this is a classic one. It's from Lillian and Lillian is inviting me to put my foot in my mouth |
| 2:01.4 | in all sorts of ways that are very fun and going to be entertaining. |
| 2:04.7 | So here's Lily and she says, hey Spencer, I was wondering if you had thoughts on John |
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