        HOW TO TEACH
"THE ORIGINAL" GREEK TEXT



    The complete inside story of what
goes on in the classrooms of PCS, BBC,
Pacific Coast Bible College, Tennessee
Temple, Bob Jones University, Dallas,
and Grace Theological Seminaries as they
follow the lead of Yale, Furman, Har-
vard, Stetson, Fuller, Judson, Fuller,
Denver, Wheaton, and Louisville
Theological Seminaries in destroying the
Holy Bible (Authorized Version) while
USING it.




          Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
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                      TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction ...........................................................     i

The Greek On The Street.....................................     1

Puffing The Sucker...............................................   11

Destroying The Faith In
   A "Fortress Of Faith"..........................................   17

Finer Points Of "Scholarship Onlyism".................   31

Fruits Of Believing The Professional Liars...........   49

How Not To Do It In Greek Class..........................   69

The New King Jimmy-Wimmy Version..................   87

Correcting The Greek Textus Receptus
   With the "King's English"......................................  97

The Bottom Line On Teaching Greek.................   105

''I Had A Dream''...................................................   121

Epilogue................................................................   125

Postscript..............................................................   129

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                           INTRODUCTION





                           INTRODUCTION

    The "chink in the armour," or the "Achilles Heel,'' of
Fundamentalism is a thing that no one has ever mentioned or
discussed in print. Since this fatal weakness has been THE cause
of apostasy in every generation since 1800, it is carefully con-
cealed by Christian educators in 1992, and all of them pretend
that no such fatal weakness exists, or has ever existed. Just as
there is an iron-clad conspiracy of silence about the sinners who
talked our modern Fundamentalist leaders out of their faith in
the King James Bible (see the Bible Believers' Bulletin, May-
September of 1991), so there is a "black out'' when anyone
tries to flnd out what actually goes on in a Christian college,
university, or seminary (or even "institute") that turns a Bible-
believing young man into a destructive critic of the King James
Bible. Someone has been doing something, since the days of
Westcott and Hort ( 1880), to completely destroy young
ministers' faith in absolute authority, and whoever it is, they
have been operating behind CLOSED DOORS: the closed doors
of a Christian college, seminary, or university. (See the publica-
tion King James Onlyism vs. Scholarship Onlyism, 1992).

    As these apostate ministers are matriculated (at a rate of
nearly one thousand a year since 1940), they take an unwritten
oath of loyalty to someone never to tell anyone WHO it was
that rlrst destroyed their faith in the Book by which they were
saved and called to preach. For two years, we published in the
Bible Believers' Bulletin a request for any one of these men
to tell us where and when (and under whose ministry) he was
converted from a Bible-believer into a professional critic. Not
one man ever sent in one word of testimony. Dr. A.T. Robert-

ii   HOW TO TEACH "THE ORIGINAL" GREEK TEXT

son and Kenneth Wuest were both saved under the teaching and
preaching of a King James Bible Both pretended the Holy Spirit
led them in their ''life ministries'' to alter the Book and destroy
people's faith in it. Ditto John Ankerberg and Chuck Swindoll.
In a lifetime, Bob Jones Jr. and Bob Jones III never let out a
PEEP about WHERE and WHEN they abandoned the Book
that got them saved. Neither did Robert Sumner or Curtis Hut-
son. In two hundred years of church history, you cannot find
one destructive critic of the King James Bible who will testify
as to when he began to doubt it and began to follow men, and
men's opinions, instead of the Book. Not even Spurgeon, or
R.A. Torrey, would dare tell you where they got their infor-
mation from. They let you think they got it from the Holy Spirit,
without saying so.

    In vain, one will search the autobiographies of B.H. Car-
roll, George Truett, John Broadus, "Hot Dog" Hymers, John
R. Rice, Doug Kutilek, Bob Ross, John Gilpin, l. Vernon
McGee, Jerry Falwell, Harold Willmington, Arthur Farstad,
Zane Hodges, Sumner Wemp, and R. B. Thieme to find the
slightest trace of the moment that they began to doubt the Holy
Bible and look for flaws in it. But it happened to every one
of them. Their silence is ''consent." The Lord taught them
NOTHING when it came to their "insights" into ''misleading
translations,'' "better renderings," "unfortunate translations,"
"a better reading should be," etc. They were caught up in a
conspiracy. A billion dollar educational conspiracy ($$$).

    In this work, we will get to the roots of this matter. We
will show you who it was, and when it was, and how it was,
that they lost their God-given, God inspired faith in the words
of God (I Thess. 2:13) and began to take them as the words
of men (John 7:17), and misguided men, at that.
    The trouble began with them, as it began with every apostate
Conservative, every unsaved Liberal, every dead orthodox
Evangelical, every corrupt Neo-evangelical, every unsaved
Catholic, and unsaved "Modernist" on the North American
continent. It began with a Greek teacher. If they did not sit in
class under this teacher, they at least studied a book written
by this teacher, or one of his pupils. If they did not HEAR this

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Greek teacher, they ''read after him." If they did not study
under him, they believed what was said about him that was
passed on to them. Or, if they did not take an actual course
under him, they read his comments passed on to them through
a commentary, a ''word study," or a sermon note. The trou-
ble BEGAN with a Greek teacher. It began that way everywhere
it happened and evely time it took place. If the greenhorn never
even learned to read Greek-let alone "master it"-he, at least,
succumbed to the "wisdom" of the Greek teacher and took his
word for some matter over against the words that God gave
him when he was saved.

    There is a Greek teacher at the bottom of every Christian's
conversion from fidelity to infidelity. The darnage done by these
saved (and unsaved) Greek teachers through a period of one
hundred years (1880-1980) is absolutely incalculable. Their in-
fluence over five generations of ministers (1880-1980) is what
has produced modern, American ''Christianity.'' Every sin,
failure, flaw, weakness, and ineffectiveness in modern Fun-
damentalism, Conservatism, Orthodoxy, and Evangelicalism
can be traced to one root: the minister's loss of authority, so
that he speaks as "one of the scribes" and cannot control
ANYTHING in his church, or have any scriptural effect on
anyone in his neighborhood. For this power and authority,
America has substituted money, buildings, and Christian educa-
tion. It is as SECULAR as the New Age Movement when it
comes to the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Tirn. 3:5), and the
authority of the Holy Bible (Mark 7:9). "The word of God''
(see The Christian 's Handbook of Manuscnpt Evidence, 1970,
Chaps. 1, 2) was run off the highway. It was run off by a Greek
teacher; not one exception in one hundred years of church
history. It is the Greek teacher who closes each class period
with "DID GOD REALLY SAY THAT?" (Gen. 3:1). It is
the Greek teacher who opens each class with "DO YOU
REALLY HAVE THE WORDS OF GOD" (Gen. 3:1)? It was
the Greek teachers who put Robertson, Sumner, Schaff, Green,
Willmington, DeWette, Farstad, Hodges, Melton, Wuest,
Nicoll, Kittel, Hackett, Swete, Machen, Knowling, Davis,
Trench, Bruce, Thayer, and James Price on the shelf for life.

    iv   HOW TO TEACH ''THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT

     This book will show the Bible-believing Christian how to
teach Greek and how not to teach it, or, to put it over the plate
waist high: "How Greek has been taught at Pensacola Bible
Institute (PBI) for twenty-nine years, compared with the way
it has been taught at Louisville Seminary for fifty years.'' Here,
you will see the two techniques laid side by side and you will
learn why PBI produces soul-winning, Bible-believing, street
preachers, and why BJU and Tennessee Temple (and BBC and
PCS) produce nothing but smooth, slick, amateur critics of a
Book they know little or nothing about. In studying the two
techniques, you will see that they are built on two separate foun-
dations. Our foundation is: "God has given us the words He
wants us to have, and has preserved them for us inspite of 'godly
Christian scholars' (1800-1990). What is obscure or 'contradic-
tory' about these words can be solved by prayer and study com-
ing from a BELIEVING HEART and a HUMBLE MIND.''
Directly opposing this position-completely contrary to it in
every respect-will be found the position of BBC, Furrnan, Stet-
son, PCS, Moody, Bob Jones, Baylor, Wheaton, Fuller, Dallas,
Pacific Coast, Pillsbury, Piedmont, BIOLA, and the rest of the
Alexandrian offshoots: "Since the Bible was NOT written in
English but in Greek, only an accurate knowledge of Greek will
reveal the true mind of God. The Authorized Version is filled
with mistranslations and should be corrected by 'THE GREEK
TEXT.' To do this, the determining factor in finding the truth
of God is a knowledge of Greek grammar and syntax.''

     The first technique produces Bible-believing pastors,
evangelists, and missionaries who never lose their faith in ONE
WORD of the Book that got them to Christ and into the ministry.
The other technique guarantees a proud, self-righteous Nico-
laitan, who not only desires to " Lord it over" the AV translators
with his superior "twentieth century (!) Laodecian education,"
but also to Lord it over every Bible-believer who still believes
the BOOK. His desire is to convert the believer to an infidel,
when it comes to matters of authoriy (Nicolaitanism), and so
place himself in the MIND of the believer as the "last word"
as to what the Bible should say, that it doesn't say, in English.

     We hope you enjoy the book. In it, you will see that any

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school in America could have preserved the faith of its
ministerial students in the Holy Bible. We have never had any
trouble in twenty-nine years. The schools chose not to preserve
their faith in the Book because they wanted the students to deposit
their faith in the school. This is the standard Roman Catholic
practise since 325 A.D. The sucker delivers his conscience to
the Church as the final authority instead of the Book. In the
Moody-Bob Jones-Tennessee Temple-PCS-wheaton-BIOLA-
BBC, etc. circuit, ne delivers his conscience to the GREEK
TEACHERS and the Greek scholars. The Catholic practise pro-
duced the Dark Ages; the modern Fundamentalist practise has
produced the present "local church'' condition that one finds
in America from "sea to sea" (Amos 8:11).

     In the deep, dark, shrouded oblivion of every apostate Fun-
damentalist's background is the MAN (or the MEN) who planted
the first doubt in his mind about the Book. And in the
background of that man (or men) is the man (or men) who led
him into the same path of destructive criticism. And behind
them.... It is a long line of "apostolic succession,'' but it has
nothing to do with New Testament Christianity, or Bible-
believing pastors and soul winners. It has to do with Genesis
3:1, where the founder of the Scholar's Union tempted a woman
to get a "superior education (Gen. 3:1,5).

    Here is how to teach "Greek" and how NOT to teach
"Greek.'' If the apostates had known the right way to do it-
which they may, or may not, have known-they did not chose
to do it the right way. They took the Darwinian jungle expe-
diency (''me first, you next") of all pragmatic humanists, and
destroyed the pupil. If they had wanted to know the right way,
all they would have to do would be to drop ''Ruckman" a let-
ter. They didn't want to know THAT bad. (That is carrying
a love for truth too far!) So, they lied to the pupil and turned
him into a LIAR.
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                            CHAPTER ONE

                      The Greek On The Street

    We now step into the classroom. We are about to embark
on one of the most thrilling and spiritual adventures of the Chris-
tian life. We are going to learn Greek so we can study ''THE"
Greek New Testament! We are on our way to mastering ''the
original tongues' ' from which the A V translators translated, and
once this is accomplished, we will know what God REALLY
said, instead of what we THOUGHT He said. Man, what a
privilege!

    If our Greek teacher is "up to snuff," he will begin by
reading several quotations from Wuest's Nuggets in the Greek
New Testament, or a similar work, to prove to the student that
a working knowledge of Greek is not only helpiill and desirable,
for a pastor or evangelist, but absolutely essential in order to
"really understand" the New Testament. "The student of Greek
ALWAYS has access to more truth than the student who
doesn't," because the "deeper" things in the scripture will never
be available to an Englishman since he has only an English
translation. (We printed several of these typical Fundamentalist
quotations in our works on the Pastoral Epistles and Problem
Texts. See samples there (on pages 432-440).

    It is at THIS point-the very beginning-that we teach our
young men two great truths, which are purposely omitted at
BJU, PCS, BBC, etc. We do this, after all, because we know
Him who is THE truth and believe His words (John 8:32, 45),
which are TRUTH (John 17:17), and desire to be led into THE
TRUTH (John 14:17).

    1. We call to the young man's attention that the greatest
Greek and Hebrew scholars the Conservatives and Fundamen-

2    HOW TO TEACH ''THE ORIGINAL" GREEK TEXT

talists ever produced, in the last one hundred years, were NOT
great preachers, they were NOT great pastors, they had NO
evangelistic zeal, they were NOT great soul winners, and the
Junior Departments in the Sunday Schools of Bob Gray, John
Rawlings, J. Frank Norris, and Beauchamp Vick had a better
grasp of the scriptures. When Truett, Falwell, Criswell,
Wiersbe, Broadus, McGee, Riley, Scarborough, John Rice, and
others attack the AV, they do it on the basis of what these non-
evangelistic, anti-New Testament, barren, fruitless speculators
had written. This explains (see the Introduction) why the men
who were great pastors and soul winners (1880-1980) were
ASHAMED to tell you where they got their information from
when they corrected the AV text. They knew the source. They
were ashamed to associate themselves with this crowd because
it was not their present crowd. The scholars-Nicoll, Robert-
son, Knowling, Hackett, Dummelow, Schaff, Hort, Nestle,
Aland, Metzger, Ellicott, Rendall, Alford, Wendt, Myer,
Davidson, Conybeare, Ridderbos, Machen, Wilson, Warfield,
Toy, Kenyon, Vincent, Thayer, Frankenburg, et al.-are five-
point hard-shell Calvinists, A-millennialists, Post-millennialists;
cold, barren, powerless, fruitless professing Christians (many
of them unable to tell you, within ten years, the date of their
"conversion"), and the stupid Fundamentalists who took them
seriously (Wuest and Thieme for example), have a "track
record" that includes nothing but parading book knowledge
before upper middle-class Christians, who were led to Christ
by someone else. Their personal evangelism and personal
"church planting" is a joke.

    Wuest taught that the "falling away" of 2 Thessalonians
2:3 was the RAPTURE, and Thieme taught the BLOOD of
Christ was not even effective in your salvation; it was only His
DEATH that was connected with it. (See comrnents on The
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, by Kittel, in The
Anti-Intellectual Manifesto, p. 83). Robert Dick Wilson believed
in sprinkling babies. A.T. Robertson couldn't find the Judg-
ment Seat of Christ, or the Millennial Reign of Christ, in the
Bible. Machen and Warfield didn't think Israel would ever be
restored to the Promised Land. And Blackwelder (NKJV com-

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mittee, with Curtis Hutson and Harold Ockenga) taught that
any Christian could lose his "new birth'' and go to Hell after
his conversion. Nestle, Kittel, Driver, Keil, and Delitzsch never
left a piece of paper on this earth saying when and where they
were born again; neither did Knowling, Hackett, Plumtree,
Hort, Westcott, Lightfoot, or Philip Schaff.

    So, at the beginning, Pensacola Bible Institute gets off on
a different foot than the offshoots of Alexandria. Those unfor-
tunate young men who are gullible enough to believe their Greek
teachers, start with the RIGHT FOOT (positive) by covering
up the negative truth. They don't even mention what you just
read above. And what you just read above is as TRUE and FAC-
TUAL as any copy of the ''Majority Text" or the ''Textus
Receptus" that anyone ever published. Our starting point was
THE TRUTH. Their starting point was "the smarter you are
the better you can understand the Bible."

    2. We teach the student of Greek that the KEYS to
understanding anything and everything in the scripture-both
the fundamental truths and the "deeper things"-are a HUM-
BLE HEART and a BELIEVING MIND. If these two keys are
used, with constant study of the Book (2 Tim. 2:15), they will
yield truths which no Greek scholar has ever been able to find
in any set of Greek manuscripts studied, or collated, by ANY
Greek scholar. Throughout the course, from time to time, we
point out exact illustrations of this truth. We do this because
it is SO. Our foundation begins with TRUTH, so the student
can find out the TRUTH; not what some deluded apostate sup-
poses is the ''intent of the original author.''

    Now that we have our "orientation"-note that I have listed
two different orientations, from two different approaches, where
two different goals are in mind-out comes the Freshman's text-
book. The usual textbook is something by Davis, Robertson,
Machen, Mantey, or Dana, although there are a dozen more
on the market today. At BJU in 1949-1953, we were given the
one by Davis; Machen has been used since then. For our pur-
poses, here, we take a standard Broadman publication used
throughout all of thc Baptist schools (seminaries, universities
and colleges) in the ''convention." It is written by Ray Sum-

4    HOW TO TEACH ''THE ORIGINAL'' GREEK TEXT

mers, who professes to believe EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE
FUNDAMENTALS RECITED IN THE "BASTlON OF OR-
THODOXY," in their official creed (BJU). He believes ex-
actly what A.T. Robertson, Broadus, Scarborough, and Truett
believed (all Southern Baptists). He could recite the creed at
Bob Jones without batting an eye, or crossing his fingers.

    Well, the class starts. What kind of Greek is the New Testa-
ment written in? The student is told that it was the language
commonly used in the Greek speaking world from the time of
Alexander the Great to about 400 A.D. It is called ''koine, "
in distinction "from the classical Greek of the world of letters."
''Attic" was the language of Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Plato, Aristotle, and other demoniac bullshooters (see 7he Chris-
tian's Handbook of Science and Philosophy, 1987, chapters 1-2).
The literary style of Attic is more ''stilted and fixed, less flexi-
ble and changeable than the vernacular.'' Robertson will tell
you that some Greek teachers consider only literary ATTIC to
be "first class" Greek; these were the educated jugheads (see
Gen. 3:1-3) who thought if the New Testament was inspired,
it had to be written in COLLEGIATE GREEK. As it turns out,
the language of the New Testament is the common, ordinary,
everyday language of New Testament times. Then quietly,
subtlety, in the most inobtrusive manner possible, Dr. A.T.
Robertson tells us that "There was developed also a LITERARY
KOINE, seen in such writers as Polybius, Josephus, and
Plutarch.'' (p. 10, Grammar).

    Now, how will this information be disseminated in an Alex-
andrian Cult institution, and how will it be handled at Pensacola
Bible Institute? I am sure you know, by now, that the systems
will be absolute "polarities" (to cite the press and the NEA).
First, I will give you how every Greek teacher in America taught
this information, from the time of Deissmann and forward, and
then I will show you how we uncover TWO TRUTHS that are
(again) purposely concealed from the young ministerial student
who is supposed to be engaged in learning THE TRUTH. If
the young man has access to these two truths, he will still be
able to retain his faith in the King James text; if he is denied
these truths, his foundations will begin to crumble, for he has

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already been seduced from the "simplicity of Christ" (2 Cor.
11:3) into thinking that intellectual mastery of a DEAD
LANGUAGE is going to make him spiritually superior to his
congregation, or his pupils-if he ever has either.
    Party Line: ''This shows us why, today, the archaic
Elizabethan English needs to be updated every so often, so it
can keep up with the common ''man in the street." The ar-
chaic words such as "let," "prevent," "trow," and so forth,
no longer communicate to modern man. We would actually be
failing to follow in the footsteps of Tyndale and the martyrs
if we did not constantly alter the AV to make it match the modern
American vocabulary. Otherwise, we are preventing the
knowledge of truth and the spread of the Gospel!"

    Would any Christian dare take this outrageous position?
Absolutely; John R. Rice's daughter put it in print and we
published it in The Last Grenade (1991), p. 106-109.

    Observe, that here, the sucker is being set up for ''revi-
sions.'' He is not told that the alibi given above had already
been given ninety times (literally) between 1880 and 1980. The
men who spread this false rumor, followed through by declar-
ing the English Bible-translated by anyone-becomes ''ar-
chaic" every fourteen months The student (the sucker) is not
told this. Instead, he is led to think that the NASV, or the NIV,
are illustrations of this much needed ministry." At some places
(Wheaton, for example) the Living Bible will be the example
given. There will not be a peep about Haymann, Rutherford,
Mou]ton, Gowen, Dake, Wand, McFayden, Pym, Weaver,
Kissane, Lenski, Vernon, Beck, Burke, Bruce, Nols, Wuest,
and the other eighty.

    In the Book by Kubo and Specht, you will find a few listed,
but there the alibi will be that you cannot stop at simply "up-
dating" the RV and the ASV; you must meet the "need" of the
individual (humanism) by creating one version for each need.
This is the prescnt condition of ''Biblical'' Christianity in
America today.

    Now here is what the student is NOT told. He is not told
that every Fundamental, missionary-minded school in America,
AFTER 1880, was founded by a man who was saved under

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the teaching and preaching of a King James Bible and had to
USE the King James Bible (even if he might have lost his faith
in it later!) in order to keep the institution from going Liberal
or Neo-evangelical. Further. he is not told that this mammouth
plague of ''updating''-so one can ''communicate'' to modern
man-brought in the Laodicean period of apostasy with a na-
tional and international ''falling away" from Biblical truth com-
parable to the beginning of the Dark Ages (500 A.D.). Fur-
thermore, at this point (where it would have been cruciual to
tell him), the student is not told that ninety-eight percent of these
''updatings" came from the Roman Catholic text that brought
in the DARK AGES (Jesuit Rheims, 1582, from Jerome's Alex-
andrian, New Testament Vulgate). This would include the NASV
of Bob Jones University, the NRSV of the NCCC, the NIV of
Moody and Fuller, and the ASV, RV, Living Bible, etc., of the
other Alexandrian offshoots. (See the documented evidence in
The Last Grenade, op cit., pp. 22, 52.)

    We tell our Greek student one more thing about the "street
koine'' and the "literary koine'' that Bob Jones and PCS would
not dare breath about. We refer him to page 63 of Nestle's Greek
New Testament, which, for eighty years, published these words:

    ''The Greek orthography which in Hort, Tischendorf and
Weiss was substantially that of the Greek writers of the fourth
and fifth centuries [SINAITICUS, VATICANUS, ALEXAN-
DRINUS, etc.] has now been regulated according to that ac-
cepted by philological scholars for the time in which the NEW
TESTAMENT WRITlNGS ORIGINATED." Who would think
to do a thing like this? I owe these determinations to Ed
Schwyzer, Prof. of Classical Philology in Bonn, through the
Mediation of Prof. Schmiedel (of Zurich). The philological
scholar, Friedrich Blass, also proceeded, earlier, in a similar
way, in his editions of the New Testament writings, likewise
Von Soden in his New Testament and Rahlfs in his edition of
Genesis" (Nestle, p. 63).

    When Nestle printed his Greek text (which was used as a
replacement for the Textus Receptus by the British Foreign Mis-
sionary Society in 1904), he had the Greek texts of Sinaiticus
and Vaticanus-written in 330A.D.-changed in regards to ac-

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cent, breathing, iota subscriptum, word separation, and proper
names, so they would look like they were written before
l00 A. D.

    Do you realize what Nestle said? He said the "orthography"
of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus-written more than 220 years after
the completion of the New Testament-had been altered (revised,
changed, messed with) so that they APPEARED to have been
written in the first century, at the time of the "original
autographs.'' Who would do a thing like that? With what motive
in mind? At PCS and BJU, they dare not even mention such
matterc; neither does anyone at BBC, Tennessee Temple, Lib-
erty University, Santa Rosa Schools, or any other Bible-rejecting
institution that has replaced the final authority of the Bible with
the final authority of Christian Scholarship (See King James
Onlyism vs. Scholarship Onlyism, 1992).

    Someone wanted you to think that the writers of Vaticanus
and Sinaiticus were writing VERNACULAR KOINE because
Deissmann upset their applecart after those manuscripts were
discovered. They (? and B) both contained the earmarks of
LITERARY koine, long after the street koine was in print.
Scholars; scholars at work. Scholars at work in a Christian
university! Scholars, revising the koine vernacular to bring it
into line with "refined sensibilities" and "good taste." And
now, here is your Greek teacher, in 1992, telling you that you
should bring the king's English down to street level and ignore
culture and taste! The same man is talking out of both sides
of his mouth at one time. This is the typical Alexandrian
"stance" (see pp. 49, 50 in The Last Grenade).

    But there is still more "hidden truth" in the English ''nug-
gets,'' which your Greek teacher is not going to discuss. Walk-
ing carefuly, as circumspectly as a wounded tom-cat nagivating
a gutter on a tin roof, your Greek teacher will give a wide berth
to the truth behind ''bring the language down to the common
man on the strect." No greek teacher would dare do it. None
of them ever did. Kenneth Taylor (The Living Bible) tried it
by inserting "son of a bitch" and "toilet" in his remarks, but
his attempt was far short of an "update" on "dung." Dodds
(NEB) attempted to have Caleb's daughter-in-law "breaking

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wind'' (see Josh. 15: 18) when she ''got off her ass'' (see Judg.
1:14) but he couldn't handle any proposition in 2 Samuel 11:4
or 2 Samuel 13:14.

    All of the fanatical ''updaters'' seemed to be plagued with
cowardice as well as stupidity.

    That ''ain't the half of it' (vernacular koine). Everytime
the updater was shocked by a plain, street language word likc
"vile," ''damned," "bastard," or "hell," he suddenly de-
cided to get rid of the word and tone it down ''to fit ears polite,
and snugly keep damnation out of sight." (For example: see
the NIV, NASV, and NKJV in Matt. 16:18, Phil. 3:8, 21, and
Rom. 14:21.)

    Who can forget the modern twentieth century "updating"
of Job's "white of an egg" into "the slime of the purslane"
(lob 6:6)? And who can forget the NKJV's 1990 rendering of
"file" as "pim," to help communicate to the reader in the com-
mon vernacular? I will tell you "who can forget," for the sim-
ple reason they never knew about it to start with. They were
not informed in the classroom. They were not given the
TRUTH. They were not told the information given above, in
the context of studying Greek in a Greek class, under a Greek
teacher.
    Are these reprobates sincere? Are you trying to be funny?

    Well, they are trying to be funny.

    Street Greek would sound like this, if the man in charge
(any modern Greek teacher or Bible revisor) really believed
what he said he believed about vernaculars:

     "God Almighty is put out with two bit punks who hang
on to a Book that they don't believe and are messin' with. As
far as He is concerned, this is just as ungodly as hell; there
ain't nothin' right about it! They act like they don't believe this,
but God already showed it to the rascals and He stuck it inside
'em where they could git it. Any nut can tell what God is like
by lookin' out the window at what He made. Hey man! You
can dig the Trinity by studying the sun. You ain't got a cotton-
pickin' alibi in the world for pretending you don't know God.
Da trouble with you is the same trouble all of these monkey
men have had ever since they began to mess with the Book.

                      THE GREEK ON THE STREET          9

They quit glorifying God, then they quit thankin' Him for life,
food, breath, clothes, and a pad, so they blanked out, man. The
lights shorted out all over the circuit, and instead of gettin' some
''smart''-like they acted like they did-they got phased out.
    That is Romans 1:18-22 in the Vernacular Koine of the
twentieth century.

    The collegiate crowd at the twentieth century Christian
universities would turn up their noses at it, just like they would
turn up their noses at the original autographs written by com-
mercial fishermen (Peter, James, and John). The Alexandrians
never ehange. They will lie like a Persian rug. Their discovery
of street language koine (Deissmann) did nothing for them but
lead them to make one more hypocritical ''profession of faith,"
about as genuine as a Federal Reserve Note in 1980. Every new
discovery which sheds "new light'' on the "wealth of material''
and embarrassment of riches in the Greek New Testament,
simply leads them further into the pit of sin. Having begun with
a lie, they must end with a lie. Having removed the truth from
the foundation, the whole superstructure is subject to a
catastrophe. By deliberately evading the truth, at the beginning
of the course, they guarantee a crop of liars when the harvest
comes in. It has been coming in now for one hundred years.
The first place a saved preacher loses his faith in the Holy Bi-
ble is in a Greek class under a Greek teacher. If he does not
attend the class, he believes what the teacher WRITES or what
his pupils wrote.

    Here is John Gill, telling you what you must believe about
a final authority that doesn t even exist.

    "This is to be understood (2 Tim. 3:16) of the Scriptures,
as in the original languages and not of translation, unless it
could be thought that the translators of the Bible into the several
languages of the nations [see Acts 2 and Luke 23] were under
the divine inspiration also in translating, and were directed of
God to the use of words they have rendered the original ["The
original what, John? Having a little trouble there? Original text,
original language, original manuscripts?], but this is not
reasonable to suppose (John Gill, The Body of Divinity,
Sovereign Grace Publishers, Grand Rapids, 1971).  "Only the

10           HOW TO TEACH 'THE ORIGINAL'' GREEK TEXT

original exemplar is authentic, and to the Bible [?] in its original
languages [Having a little trouble there Johnny?] is every
translation to be brought.'

    Note! There is no "original exemplar'' to bring the transla-
tions to.

    "And so far as they (the translations) agree with the
ORIGINAL Ithe original what, Johnny? That is three faked
passes in a row.] that they are the rule of taith and practise"
(ibid) .

    The ''rule of faith and practise," therefore, does not ex-
ist. Period.

