Going by the Book (for a year)

[Natasha]

Going by the Book (for a year)

http://www.anglicanjournal.com/culture/books/041/article/going-by-the-book-for-a-year/
03/23/2008

"Excerpt: His intention is to follow, if possible, every rule no matter
how minute ... Such a task seems impossible but Mr. Jacobs does allow
himself some leeway. He makes a distinction between literal and
figurative passages declining, for example, to follow Origen into
self-castration on the basis of Matthew 19:12: "There are eunuchs who
have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of heaven," a passage which,
he decides wisely, is unquestionably figurative."