So says Kevin DeYoung. When one knows a priori what a passage has to mean, in light of a grand theme that one has discovered in Scripture, before one ever gets to a given passage actual biblical exegesis is imperiled.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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We know a posteriori that every passage has to mean the revelation of Jesus Christ in His Person and definitive accomplishment of full and free salvation for all and only His people, and how it applies to them through His uniting them to Himself.
Every passage means that.
Of course, each passage means that one thing in a wide variety of particular ways. And we come to know that each passage means this one thing in being enlightened of its particularity.
Right?