or bother over grammatical or lexical difficulties unless something of practical importance is at stake. For this reason they will sometimes miss some significant nuance of a passage or point of syntax. In their exegesis they are understandably much stronger in concordance study than in syntax or lexicography, which were not such highly developed pursuits in those days. Their etymologies, for instance, will often be naïve and fanciful. One of the inherent weaknesses in dogmatics is that a theologian