years ago: “The limits of certain dispensational periods were revealed in Scripture” (XLV, 237). In the light of this material, the definition advanced by the late Dr. C. I. Scofield (Scofield Reference Bible, p. 5), namely, “A dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God,” is hardly entitled to the criticism which is aimed against it. What men, then, according to these definitions, should be classed as dispensationalists?
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