Sublime

This is a man who never presented himself as any kind of psychologist and yet now is thought of as a man who understood human thinking and humanity better than any other writer of his time. This is a man who never imagined himself to be a biblical scholar and yet who read and memorised a chapter of the Bible every single day.

utterly foolish;

Sometimes, as his published letters indicate, he would focus for a time on a particular book of the Bible such as Romans or the Psalms.