Outline
First question: are you using too big of a passage?
Movement one: internal work
Let God work in you with the text before you do anything else.
Do the contemplative exercises with the passage.
Read the text in two different translations.
-aim for a work-for-word translation and a thought-for-thought translation. Maybe the ESV and the NIV. Or the NRS…
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