and dimensions. Like many great preachers of the past, Watson used a wide assortment of word pictures, most of them being one word long. When he preached, he chose to use concrete terms, nouns instead of adjectives. Robert McCraken has observed: ‘A return to biblical preaching has always been marked by a return to the use of illustrations. The Puritans, who are the most scriptural of preachers, are also the preachers whose sermons are the richest in imagery’. 29 In my study of word pictures, I discovered