with knowledge that would not be available to him by the exercise of his own powers. A dictum from Hesiod’s Works and Days6 makes the very same point. As Hesiod puts it, being wise with the head of someone else is undoubtedly a smaller thing than possessing knowledge oneself, but it is far to be preferred to the sterile arrogance of one who does not achieve the independence of the knower and simultaneously despises the dependence of the believer. Before we, as believers, accept the testimony of