If anyone does not agree with that statement now, I hope they will by the end of this chapter. Once they see the amount of mental discipline and rigour required to interpret the Bible correctly, they will perhaps rather carry bricks or dig holes all day! Sometimes the exegete may have to rip up hours of labour (or press the delete key) when he realizes that his initial interpretation was all wrong. Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones said that a preacher must ‘sacrifice a good sermon rather