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WHEN a Bible text is almost too familiar, it may help to read something new, to stimulate fresh insight. Or so I hoped. The writer I turned to was Augustine. He read the Good Samaritan parable in a way that was common in his…

THIS Gospel comes in two parts; for a declaration of woe (verses 12-15) is omitted. The first part is Jesus’s instructions to the seventy (or seventy-two, depending on the Greek text) when he sends them out to proclaim his…

THIS may be the day of “Peter and Paul”, but, going by the principal-service lectionary, Peter is the one who counts. The second and third service lectionaries confirm the same priority. The reason for joining the two saints…