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It's dangerous and fruitless to be more enamoured with searching than with finding. Ash says it well:

[H]ermeneutics is more than simple open-mindedness. It has been said that the purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth at a meal, is in order to close it on something. So Thiselton adds the perceptive observation of Paul Ricoeur that hermeneutics must involve a double dynamic: on the one hand, the interpreter must be inherently suspicious, particularly of himself and his presuppositions, but on the other, he must be willing to listen to the text and to obey as he understands . . . . To sit under the text of Scripture is to be uncomfortable; we ought to be suspicious of any hermeneutic which renders us more comfortable. The command to repent and believe is fundamental to the gospel and we never move beyond its stringent discipline.

C Ash, Marriage: Sex in the Service of God (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2003), 79.