Saturday, November 15, 2008

Nice quote from Johannes Bengel

He was a Lutheran, 1687–1752, and he said this about studying the Bible:

"Te totum applica ad textum, totum textum applica ad te."

Which means:

"Apply the whole of yourself to the text; apply the whole of the text to yourself."

2 comments:

JimAroo said...

When I 1st saw this post I thought it said:
Nice Quote from Jonathan Bagel

I am not obsessed , I'm not, I swear it.

Rachel said...

Heh heh heh. I'm just messing with your mind now. :)