impose a mold over the Bible by forcing it to answer one of our favorite questions, but one the text never encompasses in its purpose. A greater temptation is to introduce a truth taught in the New Testament and to read the Bible backwards (as in “eisegesis”) and claim here was a “deeper truth” or something that is a sensus plenior, presumably encrypted between the lines and not in the grammar or syntax per se. Surely that imposition has given “eye-popping” New Testament types of truth to the Old
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