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obscure or difficult passages I shall be glad to see it’.58 Locke, in his turn, attempted to give Collins careful advice about the necessary ‘application’ required when reading Scripture, only to be rebutted by Collins who insisted that his method of reading was adequate, ‘for I have no 38 MUP/Champion_02_Ch1 38 27/2/03, 10:15 am Libraries, friends and conversation design to find any particular opinion there but only to endeavour to get the same idea that the author had when he wrote’.59 Again these different strategies for reading texts, and making meaning from
