refer to them later. The importance of careful observation cannot be overstressed since your observations will form the basis for your interpretations. In one of his most baffling cases, Sherlock Holmes commented to Watson: “I had … come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”4 The second step in Bible study is interpretation. Here you seek to understand those facts discovered through
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