Foolish Words and the Word of Truth

Foolish Words and the Word of Truth
2Timothy 2.14-19

‘What we need to know’, said the young lawyer, ‘is what Professor Johnson really means by “reform”. He says he’s proposing a “reform” in the way we admit undergraduates to the College. But the word “reform” really means “the same thing in a new form”. What he’s offering us isn’t the same thing at all. It looks to me much more like a “replacement”. He wants to abolish what we’ve always done and do it totally differently. He might as well have said “revolution”. And that’s never been our style in this College. We have never liked’ (he paused for effect, and emphasized the last word) ‘revolutionaries.’...