Status Updates From The Wonderful Works of God

"The function of the confessions or Creeds is not to push the scriptures into the background, but rather to maintain them and to protect them against individual caprice."

"The confessions do not impede the growth and knowledge but keep it in the right course of development, and they are themselves to be checked and revised against the holy scriptures as the only norm of faith."

I think he plagiarized Barcellos: "for every translation, after all, is really a kind of interpretation."

Chap. 5 contains Bavincks view of Covenant Theology. Wrestling with his statement that the OT and NT is not law and gospel but promise and fulfillment.