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Even seemingly simple verses require some level of interpretation. The question becomes how to interpret and according to which principles? Pink guides the reader through the hermeneutical principles and methods he used, providing biblical examples along the way. Much of his teaching is directed at the preacher, but there is plenty of insight to be gleaned by the layperson as well.

Turning from the general to the particular let us evince there is a real need for interpretation. First, in order to explain seeming contradictions. Thus, “God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him … Take now thy son … and offer him there for a burnt offering” (Gen. 22:1, 2). Now place by the side of that statement the testimony of James 1:13, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.” Those verses appear to conflict
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