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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...

from the unique and exclusive nature of the authority the apostles derived from Christ, as well as from the nature of the commission given to them, namely, to be witnesses to what they had seen and heard of the salvation which appeared in Christ. Out of this power and commission of the apostles, the church received its foundation and canon, which therefore bears an irrepeatable and exclusive character. The closedness of the canon thus rests in its very foundation upon the absolutely unique significance
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