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“Any scientific investigator of Scripture repeatedly confronts the issue of the character of the Bible’s authority,” writes Herman Ridderbos in the opening lines of this book. From there he goes on to examine the basis for the church’s acceptance of the New Testament as canonical. More than a merely academic question, the canonicity of the New Testament remains a vital concern for the church...

apostles were predestined, commissioned, and equipped for that continuing revelation. Finally, if another typical statement about the special redemptive-historical significance of the apostolate is sought, one can point to Hebrews 2:2ff., where the revelatory witness of the apostles is compared to that of the angels in the Old Covenant. In the Old Testament—this is the writer’s line of argument—the revealed word was spoken and made binding61 by angels; so in the New Testament the redemption first
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