Bible Quote by Peter A. Lillback

“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

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the…

— Michael S. Heiser

“He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with the vice…

— John Calvin

“No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body…

— Charles Hodge

“In one sentence of a ‘factual thing’, there is the essence of infinite scriptures.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“There is also a context constituted by the formation of the literature into a larger whole, a context that is literary and/or canonical: “The…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“To affirm the sufficiency of Scripture is not to suggest that the Bible tells us everything we want to know about everything, but it…

— Kevin DeYoung

“No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the…

— Eugene H. Peterson

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to…

— Galileo Galilei

“Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition. There”

— F.F. Bruce

“Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.”

— Michael Coren

“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to define some…

— Timothy Michael Law