opponents were in danger of turning a great mystery into a “little moment.” They were like “hot-tempered and hard-mouthed horses” who had thrown off “our rider Reason” by exercising it in a fruitless fashion.43 Gregory urged that rather than heedlessly delving into mysteries better worshiped than ineffectively and naively understood, wise and reverent scholars and pastors should devote their attention to “matters within our reach, and to such an extent as the mental power and grasp of our audience