Exorcising

January 8, 2014

Four Definitions / Two Poems

Preachers do it, those you see in churches and those you see on television; scholars do it, too.  Reading the Scripture (a definition of terms):

exegesis – getting the sense out of something (usually Scripture)

eisegesis – putting your own sense back in

exorcism – getting the demons out of something, anything at all

eisorcism – putting your own back in

Perform these actions in the right combination and you’ll have the Bible you wanted all along.

I apologize for the quality of the sound on what follows.  When you're uploading from an Underwood portable typewriter and a Bell & Howell 8mm camera . . . well, sometimes everything doesn't just click.