to be in its articulation of God’s identity, pressuring the trinitarian claims as basic to its own literal sense.22 The church confuses its place as neither prophet nor apostle, but because of its specific providential location, is able to hear both OT and NT canonical witness as Christian Scripture, each according to the purpose God has ordained. This was the point made in the previous chapter. The turn to the history of interpretation does not show us how to read the OT in our day, any more than