various exegetical options. We learn from the masters who preceded us, and we leave ourselves vulnerable if we fail to check our results against theirs.12 A completely novel interpretation or doctrine calls for caution. Historical theology also makes interpreters of Scripture aware of their inherited traditions, traditions with the potential to blur the actual authorial intention of a particular text.13 One must constantly take off blinders and really see what is in the text. David Allan Hubbard,