Stupid Scholar

In words that I would never have been capable of articulating, this is why I am a biblical scholar.

Sacred Scripture so incomparably transcends all human knowledge and learning that I am reduced to silence. It proclaims the truth; calls to the heavenly fatherland; changes the heart of the reader from earthly desires to embracing higher ones. It challenges the strong with its more obscure expressions, while attracting little ones with simple speech. It is not so inaccessible that one should be frightened, nor so obvious that it becomes cheap. Familiarity with it takes away boredom; and the more one meditates on it, the more one loves it. It helps the soul of the reader with simple words, raises it with sublime meanings. In a certain sense it grows with the one who reads. The uneducated, in part, appraise it, while on the other hand the learned are always finding new things in it.

- St. Gregory the Great, Moral Commentary on Job, XX.1 (circa 600).

I am so privileged to be able to spend my time studying the Sacred Text. I only wish that my admiration for it and for the God it proclaims were greater. I agree with Gregory that the Bible is both simple and extremely complex; shallow and very deep. May the Lord speak to all of us, as we read, study, and learn from His Word.