COMMENTARY: The Old Testament prophet distills the path to holiness into a few simple words: Do what is right, love what is good, and walk humbly with God.
In addition to all the usual reasons for not offering Scripture at the university where I teach, not the least being the fact that I don’t know a lick of Aramaic, Hebrew or Greek, there is also the obvious and undeniable fact that I’m surrounded by theological titans who have quite mastered the discipline already, so why should I feel the need to compete? What would be the point?
In other words, I have zero pretensions to cornering the market on the Scriptures. Which has left me blessedly free, by the way, simply to read them, and to marvel and exclaim at the stories they tell. If all Scripture, to cite the conciliar text on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum (No. 9), “is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit,” then anytime I pick up the Bible, never mind which of the books I choose from, every word I read puts me in direct contact with God himself, who is their
