It is time to purge the Church of its heretics.

[Rushing Jaws]

The canonization of his romance is odd. As a metaphor for the marriage between Christ and his bride, it's even more bizarre.

## Less odd than the notion that Solomon is a type of Christ, arguably, given Solomon's goings-on.

Despite the mention of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Wedding Mass, it had never occurred to me that any of the three marriages in the book had a Christological application. I'm glad the book is in the canon, because the mention of Tobias' dog is a delightful touch that humanises the book and gives it a very familiar "feel". Unsemitic, perhaps, but delightful nonetheless. It takes the emphasis off human beings, for a change, and looks for a change at an animal. I just wish that cats had been mentioned. OTOH, "let everything that hath breath, praise the LORD", must include them, if only by implication. Odysseus' dog Argus gets a spot in Odyssey 17 - and here is a dog in the Bible. I like that, because that makes the Bible more humane, more humanly sympathetic. To talk only of man's doings gets very dull; to be merely human, is to be incompletely human.