who were unwilling to be taught or were halfhearted in their search (Jn 6:66). They were not willing to look beyond the surface of the issues. The matter remains where Butler in his famous Analogy left it: These hard sayings afford “opportunity to an unfair mind for explaining away and deceitfully hiding from itself that evidence which it might see” (Analogy, Part II, ch. vi). For those who seek an occasion to cavil at difficulties, the opportunity is hereby offered in these hard sayings. There is