alone, apart from the whole story of revelation. Because each scripture text is rightly understood in relation to the whole of scripture, the comparison of texts is essential to orthodox scripture teaching. (This has nothing to do with fundamentalism, I might add—a movement that did not emerge until the late nineteenth century.) Second, the classic exegetes looked at scripture not only in relation to other texts but also in relation to the broader context of its culture, history, and language—but
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