The practical form of the prohibition on pointing, and the one place where Neville is consistently rude. So let no one tell you that they know a man and then take you to meet a man, a holy man - run in the opposite direction. Let no one fool you that they have found him in the form of some man that they have met. He says he meets these so-called holy men everywhere he goes and invariably turns away, and he gives the reason in one sentence that closes the subject: I have found him, so I am not looking for him. At 1214 he reports the question as one he gets all the time - have you ever heard of so-and-so, the very holy person? - and answers, I run in the opposite direction; I've yet to meet what I call the holy man. What holy? At 1373 the injunction is unconditional: no matter what he looks like and how he's publicised, there aren't any holy men. At 1836 he adds the grammar of it - holy what? There's only one holiness, that's God - and joins it to the gospel rebuff, why call me good? About four lectures. A child of the motif that holds the scripture; this one holds the application to living teachers, which is where it costs him something, since he is one.
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