I'm back from my short holiday. The time in Arizona visiting my folks was great. I played golf (fairly well, strangely enough), devoured John Lee's History of New Testament Lexicography (more posts on that later, to be sure), did some significant structural revision on the Pastorals writing project (though I need to stop revising and start writing new content ... that's the tough part).

But, here are a few choice quotes from John Lee's book. He begins each chapter of part one with some appropriate quotes. Chapter Eleven, "The Way Ahead", has these two (among others):

Therefore, we need not be disturbed when complete precision and certainty elude us; responsible uncertainty will take us considerably further than baseless assurance — Moisés Silva

Change spells pain, but ... scholar's tasks are "not for sissies." — Frederick W. Danker

Sources: Lee, History of New Testament Lexicography, p. 178. Silva quoted from Biblical Words and their Meaning, p. 177. Danker quoted from Review of Nida and Louw, Lexical Semantics, JBL 113 (1994): 533.

I can sense that Silva's terms "responsible uncertainty" and "baseless assurance" will become entrenched in the vocabulary of the Design & Editorial department at Logos (where I work).