Swimming Elephants and Wading Children Lambs

Someone I read on John's Gospel attributed to Chrysostom the saying, "The Gospel of John is like a river in which a child may wade and an elephant may swim." I have never found the quote in Chrysostom. Andy Naselli has tracked down the quote in his blog entry On Swimming Elephants. He provides the quote from Gregory the Great that all but seals the case. This agrees with Craig Koester's research in his Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel.

Quote of the Week

"In some of these caricatures, I recognize some real people that actually do resemble them -- people who could read the Westminster Confession through a keyhole and use both eyes -- but Piper is not one of them, and there are a host of biblical, theological Reformed scholars who would agree with Piper on this "hinge," and yet who would be prepared to cheerfully grant all the broader contextual issues that Wright has brought up here" (emphasis added).

Quote from Doug Wilson's first installment concerning N. T. Wright's response to John Piper in Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision.

Wilson's comment reminds me of one of my seminary professors who characterized some "Fundamentalists who were so narrow-minded that they could look through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time."