Exegesis (4)



clearer passages should help interpret less clear ones. For example, doctrinal assertions in epistles often provide a theological grid through which to understand narrative or poetic texts. This principle helps ensure that our interpretations are consistent with the overall teaching of Scripture and guards against eisegesis—reading our own ideas into the text.


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Many other examples of the misuse of a text can be cited, but it is remarkable how they usually all boil down to one of two things. Either the hermeneutical method being used is faulty, or the issues being discussed are not in the text to begin with.God is Love, 59


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the first Christian preachers seem to have made no sharp distinction between literalist treatments of the text, Midrash exegesis, Pesher interpretation, and the application of accepted predictive prophecies. All of these were employed, and at times there appears a blending and interwearving of methods. What they were conscious of, however, was interpreting the Scriptures from a Christocentric perspective, in conformity with the exegetical teaching and example of Jesus, and along Christological lines.Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (103)


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