Quote of the day: “Scripture is like a river . . . broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.”


The quotation here is from Gregory the Great’s Moralia on Job, section 4. The text may be found in context here.

Thanks to Andy Naselli, blogger and PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, for tracking down the quotation (which I remembered was from somewhere in Gregory’s works) and adding the following spectacular image:

Image by Olivier Blaise, flickr.com/photos/olivierblaise/sets/

 

2 responses to “Quote of the day: “Scripture is like a river . . . broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim.”

  1. Hello,
    I am the author of the swimming elephant photo reproduced on this blog.
    Please consider adding my name with a link to my website as credit for
    my image. Thank to let me know when this will be done.
    Best regards,
    Olivier Blaise

  2. Hello,
    I am the author of this image, I would appreciate if you could ad my name
    and the link to my photos galleries on flickr. Thank you very much.
    Olivier Blaise

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