Why Go Through the Drudgery of Memorizing Greek Paradigms?

Biblical exegesis should be the intellectual enzyme that transforms the stupor of our worldly and futile affections into a deep and glad and living hope. . . . [It is] the cognitive catalyst that triggers a combustion of divine joy in the human heart.

--John Piper, Biblical Exegesis: Discovering the Meaning of Scriptural Texts, 4-5.