Augustine on biblical interpretation from On Christian Teaching. The most expert investigator of divine scriptures will be eh person who, first, has read them all and has a good knowledge–a reading knowledge, a least, if not yet a complete understanding–of those pronounced canonical…. The first rule in this laborious task, is, as I have said, …
“What a preacher Augustine became in his passion not to be ‘silent’ about the all-satisfying pleasures at God’s right hand! ‘Can any man say enough when he speaks of you?’ He explained to his own congregation how his preaching came to be: ‘I go to feed [myself] so that I can give you to eat. …
In his classic collection of essays, God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis emphasized the importance of reading old books. He compared reading only new or recent books to joining a conversation at 11:00 pm that actually started at 8:00 pm. I do not know about you, but I have embarrassed myself numerous times walking up …