Ya' feelin' me?

Ya' feelin' me? In my generation this is a phrase that I heard and used often. To put it into standard words it means..."Are you feeling me?". It's meaning is something like, "Do you understand what I just said?". But it is more than that....not only is it asking if you understood cognitively and agree but to you also emotionally resonate with what I just said. Does it affect you in your heart the same way it does me?

I'm still thumbing through my newly purchased Complete Works of William Tyndale, and I'm reading the introduction that he wrote to the book of Genesis (by the way this is the first time that Genesis was available in English). Here is a quote from the first paragraph. He is wanting the English people to not just cognitively understand the Holy Scriptures, but to feel appropriately in reaction to the glory of the truths that they are understanding from the Holy Scriptures.

Basically, Tyndale is saying, "I've just been reading and studying the Scriptures and they are wonderful and sweet...are ya' feelin' me?"

"Though a man had a precious and valuable jewel, and if he did not know the value of it, nor what he could do with it, he were neither the better nor richer that if he owned straw instead. Even so, though we read the Scripture, and babble of it ever so much, yet if we know not the use of it, and why it was given, and what is to be sought in it, it profits us nothing at all. It is not enough, therefore, to read and talk of it only, but we must also desire God, constantly day and night, to open our eyes, and to make us understand and feel why the scripture was given, that we may apply the medicine of the scripture, every man to his own sores; unless that we intend to be idle disputers, and brawlers about vain words, ever gnawing upon the bitter bark without, and never attaining unto the sweet pith within..."