memory. ‘I could not have done that,’ says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—the memory yields.”3 Or as T. S. Eliot put it, “Human kind cannot bear very much reality.”4 The greatest critic of human hypocrisy and dissembling, however, is the Bible, which speaks the mind of the Searcher of hearts and exposes illusions and false consciousness, using an entirely different grid than those of Marxists, existentialists, or psychoanalysts. There is much that can be said biblically on the subject