“Friends must speak the same language” by Scott Swain

“God speaks to us in our language in this book as a consequence of his covenantal purpose.

God desires to be our God and to make us his people.

The one who dwells in a high and lofty place, who inhabits eternity, has been pleased to dwell with lowly men and women (Isa. 57:15).

God condescends to us in covenant communication because God condescends to us in covenant friendship.

And friends must speak the same language.”

–Scott R. Swain, Trinity, Revelation, and Reading: A Theological Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation (London; New York: T&T Clark, 2011), 69.