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We tell our students, "If you do nothing else besides read what comes before and what comes after your passage, you will eliminate about 75 percent of all interpretive mistakes."

...In this way we miss one of the main points of the Bible, namely, that the biblical message is from God and is above culture. The challenge is to critique our culture with the Bible and not vice versa.

For if the stars which shine most brightly by night lose their brightness on the appearance of the sun, what think we will be the case with the highest purity of men when contrasted with the purity of God? For the scrutiny will be most strict, penetrating to the most hidden thoughts of the heart.

He was also mindful of the words spoken by the prophet Elias, 'the Lord liveth before whose presence I stand today.' For he observed that in saying 'today' the prophet did not compute the time that had gone by: but daily as though ever commencing he eagerly endeavoured to make himself fit to appear before God, being pure in heart and ever ready to submit to His counsel, and to Him alone.

“To assert the truth is only one half of the office of teaching … except all the fallacies of the devil be also dissipated.” He believed that systematic exposition necessitated confronting the Devil’s lies in all their vile forms.