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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