Tolle lege, tolle lege.
“Take up and read, take up and read.” In a garden in Milan, Augustine heard a child’s voice from a neighboring house chanting it, picked up Paul’s letters and read Romans 13:13–14 (Confessions VIII.12).
These are notes from studying the Bible one book at a time: what the text says, how Christians have read it across the centuries, and where they still disagree. Some notes come with an interactive walkthrough you can explore.
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Ecclesiastes · · Interactive
Ecclesiastes teaches Christians to inhabit limits
Twelve chapters read without flattening their tensions, then Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome, Augustine, Bonaventure, Luther, Henry, Wesley, Spurgeon, Kidner, Longman and Bartholomew on what the book is for.
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Ecclesiastes · · Interactive
Ecclesiastes, chapter by chapter, with fifteen voices
The shape of the book in one chart (38 hevels, 222 verses, seven joy refrains), fifteen Christian readers from Origen to Longman, the commentaries and sermons that shaped it, and seven big questions.