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My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

(Horace Bushnell, D. D.)

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KJV: Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

WEB: by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;