Today’s On the Square selections are all about what we hear. Here’s Peter J. Leithart considering the way people in the past related to Scripture:
They were as saturated in Scripture as we are in entertainment and advertisements. They read the Bible, of course, but because they studied Scripture in the liturgical setting of a church or monastery, they also heard the Bible, over and over. Monks sang through the Psalter each week. Spend a lifetime doing that, and you’d have the Bible on the tip of your tongue, too.
Read the rest here . Even when one can’t understand the words, the music isn’t bad for you either .
