text: Lincoln had mastered the sound of the King James Bible so completely that he could recast abstract issues of constitutional law in Biblical terms , making the proposition that Texas and New Hampshire should be forever bound by a single post office sound like something right out of Genesis . ''
simplified: Gopnik felt that `` Lincoln had mastered the sound of the King James Bible so completely that he could recast ( make again ) abstract issues of constitutional law in Biblical terms ( words from the Bible ) , making the proposition ( suggestion ) that Texas and New Hampshire should be forever bound by a single post office sound like something right out of Genesis '' .