Sublime

Thus it is apparent that our view of the nature and origin of the Bible will have a significant effect on how we go about interpreting it. If the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then the analogy of faith is not an option but a requirement of interpretation.

Aspects of his redemptive character, which God presents in Scripture through his own activity or through human contradistinctions, may be specifically stated in a text or may be implied by the place of the passage in the history of redemption. Yet whether a preacher gleans these conclusions from the historical sweep of Scripture, its doctrinal stat

Charles Hodge

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Christ clarifies and specifies the nature, aim, and trustworthiness of all God’s dealings with us because Christ is where those dealings with us come to ultimate fruition.

Since Scripture as a whole is God’s revelation of his redeeming activity in Jesus Christ,10 a preacher needs only to demonstrate where and how a particular text functions in the overall redemptive plan in order to show its Christocentric focus.

The setting here is somewhat different from that recorded in Matthew. It seems to me we are not dealing with a different record of the same sermon, though many of the same topics are treated.7 Here Jesus has just spent all night out in the hills in prayer, preparing to appoint twelve of his students to be his special emissaries, or “apostles,” to w