| 1 | When he was but twelve years old he was already studying Tendai philosophical speculation. | |
| 2 | Sacred scriptures of Judaism and, with the New Testament, of Christianity. | |
| 3 | Making time for reading religious and sacred texts is a challenge in our own time. | |
| 4 | So this, again, underscores the connection between Deuteronomy and the following books. | |
| 5 | The Bible isn't the only Scripture with such vacillations between belligerence and tolerance. |