リンカーンは聖書には登場しない — しかし第2回就任演説には聖書が満ちている

Lincoln is not in the Bible. It is an English city, and the name means, roughly, the colony at the pool. Its most famous bearer gave the most theologically serious speech any American president has given, and it is worth the visit. What the name means Lincoln comes from the city in England, whose Roman name was Lindum Colonia — a Brittonic word for a pool or lake, plus the Latin for a settlement of veterans. The pool is still…