second coming (BC, before Christ),2 the church should read the Old Testament ever mindful that the scarred, living, risen Christ nourishes and sustains his pilgrim church by the Scriptures through the Spirit along their journey toward the New Jerusalem. Although theological in his approach to Scripture, Willem bristles at interpretations that mute the discrete voices of Old Testament texts as they bear witness to Christ. He has a “preconceived answer” detector, readily uncovering how a student or
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