into immobility; it moves them, it is a path (Ps. 119:35), a divine movement summoning and ruling a corresponding creaturely movement. This anticipates what will be said shortly about reason in relation to the Word’s intelligibility. Here we simply note the bearing of this principle on how the authority of Scripture might be conceived. The authority of Scripture ought not to be treated in isolation from the wider redemptive economy. If it is so isolated, it is easy to fall into the distortions of
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