‘I shall be praying for you by the de Pau river, in the Pyrenees, in the grotto,’ the detail would at once suggest that the location was significant: he is going on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Would it be possible to read v. 6 then as similarly significant of a well-known place of prayer? Indeed it would; as Gunkel says, one may think of the great shrine at Dan. Dan stands at the main source of the Jordan on the slopes of Mt Hermon, and the site has now been excavated. The ancient town was on a knoll,