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The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is true of Scripture as a result of being inspired? What should divine inspiration cause us to expect from it? The answers to these questions in the early church related not just to the nature of Scripture’s truth claims but to the manner in which Scripture was to be interpreted. In this book Michael Graves delves into what Christians in the first five centuries believed about the...

that most of those who teach or preach from the Old Testament today do not appeal to the Old Testament in precisely the same way as the New Testament writers did. In fact, some modern Christian writers have explicitly stated that we should not interpret the Old Testament in the same way that New Testament writers did. They interpreted Scripture in a special and unrepeatable way—it is argued—because they themselves were inspired, whereas we who are not inspired must try to interpret according to the
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