HERMENEUTICAL IMPLICATIONS The Scripture’s own doctrine of Scripture has three implications for biblical hermeneutics: First, the Scripture’s doctrine of Scripture, espousing its own revelatory and inspired character, binds us to the grammatical/historical method of exegesis. Packer reminds us: The doctrine of inspiration … tells us that God has put his words into the mouths, and caused them to be written in the writings, of men whose individuality, as men of their time, was in no way lessened by