The subject matter of this poem (the Bible and the place it has in human lives) seems to me to be of utmost importance. Not just if the Bible is important — I certainly believe it is, uniquely and irreplaceably so — but how.

The title is, appropriately enough, a reference to something in the Bible. And I think it might mean more than that as well.

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