Transcription of Biblical Exegesis
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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.
but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with.1 Of course, defining the ultimate goals of Biblical exegesis in this way assumes that the exegete is convinced that the Scriptures do mediate truth. However, many exegetes do …
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