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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...

Lord” (Act 18:25) or preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 18:11) i.e., in general, when by the object of “teaching,” the entire content of the gospel is meant, Galatians 1:12; cf. vs. 11; Colossians 2:17; Ephesians 4:21; 2 Thessolonians 2:15. In this sense we must also understand the absolute usage of “teaching,” as a description of the activity of the apostles (Acts 11:26; Col. 1:28) as well as the speaking of the “doctrine of the apostles” (Acts
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