Biblical Exegesis

Biblical Exegesis Discovering the Meaning of Scriptural Texts By John Piper For more free resources, go to 1. Preface John Wesley once said, I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God, just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence, I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing the way to heaven, how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end He came from heaven. He has written it down in a book. O give me that Book at any price, give me the Book of God (from the preface of Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley, originally published in 1771). This Book has been costly. Martyrs wrote it and others have suffered intensely for their faithfulness to it. The book has been preserved and passed down through painstaking efforts.

Exegesis that does not sooner or later touch our emotions, and through us, the emotions of others, is ultimately a failure because it does not mediate the effect which the Scripture ought to have. Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that by the steadfastness and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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