Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Meaning Before Modern Use
Historical interpretation begins by recovering what an older source meant before using it in a modern argument.
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Honour the Son Even as the Father
John 5:23 requires the same kind of divine honour for the Son as for the Father, while Christ’s mediatorial humility explains rather than negates his equality.
Open record →The Historical-Meaning Rule: Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak
Past writers must be interpreted in the sense their words bore in their own time before continuity, development, correction, or contradiction is claimed.
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The Text in Question: Calamy”s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It…
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