“Thus, we need the Bible as the guide to enable us to transform and purify our hermeneutical principles. The circle from the Bible to systematic theology to hermeneutics to the Bible is not a vicious circle, but a spiral of… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“Expressed otherwise in terms of the principle of context—a principle essential for sound understanding of any text but preeminently and uniquely so for Scripture—every… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“Thus, we need the Bible as the guide to enable us to transform and purify our hermeneutical principles. The circle from the Bible to… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a denial of… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.” — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.” — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
“In Old Testament narratives one should see what the segment is saying about God and then see how the characters in the narrative relate… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
