is what the church always does when it risks moving the text to its own time and place. Imagination can indeed be a gift of the Spirit, but it is a gift used with immense subjective freedom, which we would do better to concede even if that concession makes unmistakably clear that our imaginative interpretations cannot claim the shrillness of certainly but only the tentativeness of our best extrapolations. After our imaginative interpretations are made with vigor in dispute with others in the church,