analogies and metaphors as merely shadows, with a consequent impoverishment of the understanding.3 Metaphor lies at the very root of our language. All language, it seems, like the writing in which it is often expressed, began with the picture. Languages live by adding new pictures to old. It is probably true to say that most of our words started out as figures of speech that with use moved from the category of conscious metaphor into the ranks of ordinary words.4 A. T. Robertson asks, “Is it not