Seeing Christ in All of Scripture Quotes

“The genuine believer takes the whole of Scripture as a living organism produced by the Holy Spirit to present Christ to him. On every page of Scripture, he finds traits and traces of the Mediator.” —Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“Expressed otherwise in terms of the principle of context—a principle essential for sound understanding of any text but preeminently and uniquely so for Scripture—every unit of biblical material, however quantified, is qualified by a pattern of contexts relative to itself.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“In Old Testament narratives one should see what the segment is saying about God and then see how the characters in the narrative relate to the redemptive-historical message about God.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a denial of history or a denial of humanity.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“Thus, we need the Bible as the guide to enable us to transform and purify our hermeneutical principles. The circle from the Bible to systematic theology to hermeneutics to the Bible is not a vicious circle, but a spiral of growth and progress, guided by the work of the Holy Spirit in illumination.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“The Spirit’s role is also to keep us humble, abolish our pride, and cause us to be open to the message of the Scriptures. If we want to please God and not ourselves, then we will not be threatened if Scripture presents to us a meaning that goes against one of our previously held theological or ethical views. The Holy Spirit leads us to love the true God, and thus to love what is true. This means that when God’s Word presents to us an idea that goes against something that we have greatly valued, we love God’s Word and acknowledge that our own ideas were wrong.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“Thus, when we interpret the Old Testament correctly, without allegory or artificial manipulation but in accordance with Jesus’s own teaching, the central message on every page is Christ. That does not mean that every verse taken by itself contains a hidden allusion to Christ, but that the central thrust of every passage leads us in some way to the central message of the gospel. II.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“And the Spirit is God himself, who is the source of infinite creativity. His presence and his special work in inspiration do not make human beings less than human. Rather, he transforms sinful humanity toward humanity as God originally designed it. More than that, the authors’ humanity is transformed into the image of Christ, who is the perfect man, the last Adam. This transformation took place in a measure even in the Old Testament, because the Holy Spirit even then was the same Holy Spirit who is one with the Father and the Son. He acted in mercy and grace toward human beings on the basis of the atonement that Christ was yet to accomplish in the future. This”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha.”1”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary

“a view that reflects the profound words of Dr. Gaffin: “Christ is the mediatorial Lord and Savior of redemptive history not only at its end but also from beginning to end.”
― Peter A. Lillback, Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary