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The Authority of the New Testament Scriptures is Herman Ridderbos’ succinct classic on the canonicity of the New Testament. “The very ground or basis for the recognition of the canon is therefore, in principle, redemptive-historical, i.e. Christological. For Christ himself is not only the canon in which God comes to the world, but Christ establishes the canon and gives it its concrete historical...

the preaching of redemption, as apostolic preaching, belongs to the actuality of revelation, and as such it has its own unique character. And in this exclusive sense, it is also the very foundation of the church to which the latter knew itself to be bound from the very beginning. This is the most holy faith on which the church has to build (see Jude, 20 and compare verse 17). This is what has been given through the apostles, the depositum custodi (1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:14; 2:2) that the church has
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