Hypergamy and Chivalry

American society is in trouble because fewer than half of young people are getting married. There exists in women a trait called hypergamy. This means that women insist on “marrying above themselves.” So, now that women get more college degrees than men, and make more money than potential men they might date, they do not get married. And men for their part do not care that the women make a lot of money, since in her world, his money is their money, and her money is only hers. This is because women still want chivalry, that is, the man pays for everything. They want a man to play a traditional role, but they themselves have no intention of playing a traditional wife role.

Of course, this deal sucks for men, especially since divorce is disastrous for men in child custody and money matters. Meanwhile in the physical attractiveness realm, 80% of women insist on only the top 1% of men, those who are handsome, are 6+ feet tall, make six figures income. The regular man is left out, and they are giving up on pairing up. The only way to fix the marriage deficit is to give women what they want: that is, men have to make much more money than women do. That means giving the highest paying jobs to men, encouraging married women to stay home with the children. Oh yeah, that’s what the Bible says.

Teach the Younger Women

Titus 2:3-5: ³the older women likewise in reverent demeanor, not tattletales, not given to much wine, teachers of what is good, ⁴so they may instruct the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands, ⁵discreet, chaste, workers at home, kind, submitting to their husbands, so that the word of God not be defamed;”

Are the older women in your church teaching the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands? Or is your church comprised of mostly older people only, or younger people only? If your older women taught the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands, would that be the blind leading the blind? Download this translation of the Bible.

August 2026 Activities

Several things have happened in my life which have curtailed my translation activity. I was renting a room in an old hotel (which did not have a kitchen). The hotel got sold, and the new owners raised my rent from $680 per month to $1,000. I live on Social Security, and that was not doable. In addition, I needed a hip replacement surgery, and the room was upstairs, up some steep awkward stairs which would trip people without hip surgery.

So I moved out of that room, and am living outside in a metal shed with one side open. I tried sleeping outside, but I am in high desert in northern Nevada, and it has been 104 deg. F during the day, and by 5 am in the morning it is 55 degrees. That did not work, so I have been sleeping in my van. I set up an office in the shed, but the glare on my monitor is difficult, and there is wind and dust. In addition, the air is thick with smoke from dozens of brush fires, and I am constantly sneezing, and my eyes are always extremely itchy.

I did undergo the hip replacement, and they said it went well. Now I am also scheduled to have both my eye lenses replaced, since I was developing cataracts. Subsequent to these surgeries, I will have to go back to work in October, a paying job, because Medicare only pays for 80% of the cost of these surgeries, and my 20% copay will be a lot of money.

Here is a picture of me when I came out of the hospital after having my stitches from the hip surgery removed. I ran into my daughter Sarah Palmer, who works at the hospital, and was on her lunch break.

David Robert Palmer and Sarah Palmer

New Publication

I have published on Amazon a new book, just the works of Luke the beloved physician. That is, the gospel of Luke followed by the Acts of the Apostles. It is fairly large font, 14 point, and without footnotes. You can purchase that here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958612154

The file is also available for free download as PDF at: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/LukeAndActs.pdf

Titus Textual Variants

The Translatable Textual Variants in Titus:
Titus 1:4- NA29- grace and peace; Byz- grace, mercy, peace
Titus 1:4 – NA29- Christ Jesus; Byz- Lord Jesus Christ
Titus 1:10- TH – For there are many; BYZ, [NA29]- For indeed there are many
Titus 2:5- NA29, wives are to be “workers at home”; BYZ- “stayers at home”
Titus 2:7- NA29- in your teaching “integrity, dignity”; Byz- “impartiality, dignity, incorruptibility”
Titus 2:8- TR- nothing bad to say about YOU; NA29, Byz- nothing bad to say about US
Titus 3:1- NA29- ruling authorities; BYZ- rulers and authorities
Titus 3:15- BYZ- +”Amen.” NA29- “Amen” absent

This is also to announce that I have completed my first draft of my translation of the Epistle to Titus, and you can read that with textual criticism footnotes here: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/DRPbiblesofar.pdf

Northeaster Wind versus Euroclydon

A textual variant in Acts 27:14:
txt ευρακυλων “northeaster” 𝔓⁷⁴ ℵ A B* latt (cop) Chrys SBL TH NA29 {B} ‖ ευροκλυδων “southeaster wind that stirs up waves” L Pc Ψ 049 056 0142 35 94 307 1175 1611 1678 1735 1739 1891 2080 2464 𝔐 syr TR RP ‖ ευρυκλυδων “the wind that stirs up broad waves” B² 181 ‖ ευροκλυδω 81 ‖ ευρωκλυδων 93 ‖ ευρακοιδον 33 ‖ omit P* ‖ lac 𝔓⁴⁵ 𝔓¹¹² C D E H 048.
The UBS commentary says that since ευρακυλων is a hybrid of a Greek word (Εὐρος – east wind) with a Latin word (Aquilo – north wind), [BDF 5(1d), 41(2); Rob. 166], later copyists did not understand that, and so came up with a variety of emendations. Observe that in v. 17, the sailors were afraid of drifting into the Syrtis sandbars, which were to the southwest of them. For this reason, the correct reading is Northeaster, because that means a wind that was coming from the northeast blowing them to the southwest. Apollonius of Rhodes in his book Argonautica describes a ship that was hit by a blast of the north wind that seized them and carried them toward Libya, where they got stranded in the Syrtis sandbars. The name Syrtis is said to be related to the word συρεσθαι, to draw, because ships were driven there against their will. The BDAG lexicon lists the following authorities: JSmith, The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul⁴ 1880, 119ff; 287ff; Hemer, Acts 141f; Warnecke, Romfart 37-39. See https://biblearchaeology.org/research-articles/why-were-the-sailors-afraid-of-the-syrtis-sands-acts-2717/