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The Old in the New: Understanding How the New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evangelical scholarship has had over fifty years of extensive (and at times, heated) discussion over the usage of the Old Testament in New Testament. However, now with the appearance of professor Vlach’s book The Old in the New: Understanding How the New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament, perhaps we have now come to a grand summary of that extensive dialogue.

Also, affirming that the OT authors understood what they wrote does not mean the OT authors always knew the specific referents of their prophecies or the timing of fulfillment. This is Peter’s point when he stated that the OT prophets “made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow” (1 Pet. 1:10–11). According to Peter, the prophets understood what they wrote.
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