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Principles of Biblical Interpretation: Sacred Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is unique among literature, because—unlike other written works—the Bible contains the principles which determine and govern its own interpretation. This landmark work on Reformed hermeneutics introduces readers to a method of interpreting Scripture as the uniquely inspired Word of God. Berkhof affirms the inspiration of Scripture, affirming and expanding upon B.B. Warfield’s definition...

which they were written. Moreover, they greatly facilitated such study: the former by publishing a Hebrew Grammar and a Hebrew Lexicon; and the latter, by editing the first critical edition of the New Testament in Greek. The fourfold sense of Scripture was gradually abandoned, and the principle established that the Bible has but one sense. The Reformers believed the Bible to be the inspired Word of God. But, however strict their conception of inspiration, they conceived of it as organic rather than
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