These are far from idle exercises, since alternative exegeses yield conflicting answers to weighty practical questions.
They navigated several legal codes and referred to legal exegeses to lend their arguments more weight.
They also grow impatient with and intimidated by wonkish exegeses of tradeoffs they had not contemplated.
The entries themselves are not, nor are they intended to be, historical exegeses of psychiatric concepts.
We have heard ministers whose educational qualifications were all that could be desired, whose exegeses were faultless, who in their perorations would depart from all standards.