[A.J.Armitage]

Good grief. You should sit at A.J.Armitage's feet and plead with him, "teach me, rabbi, for I am not even able to read eight verses in a row. I need your understanding, I am a child in the Faith, and you are learned and wise, and able to read and understand eight or more verses in a row!!"

I should really turn down that kind of honor. All I'm done here, in any substantive sense, is quote or point to Scripture, and that only the most obvious. Still, it says what it says.

Actually, I've been, for the most part, talking about a single passage. But that one passage settles the whole issue, so I won't let it drop.

[A.J.Armitage]

Not that I can't read eight or more verses in a row, of course. It's the "learned and wise" I'm not sure I deserve.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I should really turn down that kind of honor. All I'm done here, in any substantive sense, is quote or point to Scripture, and that only the most obvious. Still, it says what it says. Actually, I've been, for the most part, talking about a single passage. But that one passage settles the whole issue, so I won't let it drop. 1112 posted on 1/25/02 12:05 PM Pacific by A.J.Armitage

Well, as I said to GWB, no one can force you to accept a compliment. ;-)

But my main point was not so much to butter you up, as to emphasize (by hyperbole) to "VaBThang" how inappropriate it was for him to trash-talk your reading of Scripture when he, apparently, cannot digest 8 verses at once. I was upbraiding him for his arrogance.