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Welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary McGeehan and I am joined with Dr. Carl Vennerstrom,

professor here at the Augustine Institute. Thanks for joining us. Very glad to be here.

Thank you, Mary. My professor question for you this episode includes you are teaching Greek.

What are you personally trying to learn about within either Greek or theology that you are going down rabbit holes on?

Hmm. Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, one of my rabbit holes, my most recent rabbit hole, I was trying to translate some, um, acts of the apostles.

And there's the part where Paul and Silas are put into prison.

Mm-hmm.

And they're like chained to some wood it says in Greek.

Okay.

And it's usually translated as stocks.

So I spent like an hour yesterday trying to figure out how people were imprisoned in the ancient world.

To understand with that stock word?

Yeah.

Well, yeah, it just means sullon.

It's just wood.

Okay.

But like,

and some other ancient authors in like a different sense, it can mean

stocks.

I was,

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