Sublime

With pinpoint exegesis, a preacher looks up unknown words or examines more fully words that, by their placement, tense, structural role, repetition, rarity, function, or relationships to other words in the passage (or related passages), demonstrate a key role in determining the text’s meaning.

Take any Epistle you like. You will find that the sub-division in each one of them is the same; always doctrine first, then deductions from doctrine. The great principles are laid down and a description is given of the Christians to whom the letter is written.

The Marrow Men were accused of

John R. W. Stott helps us discern the goals of the expository preacher by writing, “To expound a Scripture is to bring out of the text what is there and expose it to view. . . . The opposite of exposition is ‘imposition,’ which is to impose on the text what is not there.”

Psalm 27 is also a song of lament and of confidence in God.

Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics

Decalogue?

It was a consolation to the Marrow Brethren that the preaching and teaching of both Jesus and Paul aroused the same questions and criticism.2