all you can on your own, you compare your observations with those of godly men and women who have written about the Word down through the ages. Now, it would be much easier to just sit down and read a book about frogs in the first place and forget about traipsing through the marsh, wouldn’t it? But you would end up with only secondhand knowledge. You would know what others have said about frogs, which might be interesting and—you hope—true. But you never would have had a personal encounter with a frog.