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"When you're studying the New Testament... St Paul is my sort of close-in special subject and I sometimes find myself holding the pages of St Paul's letters between finger and thumb thinking: "That's tiny, that's microscopic!" You know Plato wrote far more than that, all sorts of people wrote far more than that. And yet in those few pages, packed densely in; it's like splitting the atom; this thing is so dense and so tight it is absolutely explosive. And I do not know that there's any other book in history, in the human race and throughout time, which has had that charge [...]."