The Rich Man and Lazarus

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research have led others to criticize, and in some cases even revile him. Bullinger was never particularly surprised by the criticism of some. He understood the stagnancy of men’s minds, and how tightly they held on to their traditions. As he wrote in his introduction to How to Enjoy the Bible : The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it always was, and so it will ever be. The Divine things of the Word are no exception but rather an instance. The more difficult the subject, and the more serious the consequence of error, the more averse the majority are toward what is called “unsettling men’s minds”; as if truth could be held on any other tenure than the knight’s fee of holding