Familiar With Scriptures

"But there's really only one thing I see that gave Paul such an intimate knowledge of the word of God:repeated exposure. Paul nowhere speaks of any discipline of memorizing scripture. He never commanded it, never mentions it, and never chastises anyone who can't recall the text that will. But he knew the text. He could recall it at will, just as Jesus could, and not just the favoured proof-texts. Paul knew the words, the context, the meaning, the situation, the direction toward which scripture was pointing, and it's intended goal. And he knew it because he had repeated exposure to it, from his childhood to his "college" years to his preaching and teaching as an apostle to the Gentiles. Paul new scripture thoroughly because he was constantly around it."

- Leslie Hardin. The spirituality of Paul