“The more it is chewed, the pleasanter it is” by William Tyndale

“Forasmuch as this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament and most pure evangelion, that is to say, glad tidings, and that we call gospel, and also is a light and a way unto the whole scripture, I think it meet that every Christian man not only know it, by rote and without the book, but also exercise himself therein evermore continually, as with the daily bread of the soul.

No man verily can read Romans too often, or study it too well.

For the more it is studied, the easier it is.

The more it is chewed, the pleasanter it is.

And the more groundly it is searched, the preciouser things are found in it, because so great treasure of spiritual things lieth hid therein.”

–William Tyndale, “A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture,” in Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures, ed. Henry Walter, vol. 1, The Works of William Tyndale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1848), 1: 484. Tyndale seems to be echoing Martin Luther’s comments on Romans.