It seems reasonable that the agenda we set for ourselves, the problems for which we seek exegetical solutions, reflect our understanding of tension and harmony with what the rest of what Scripture clearly teaches. And is not the exegetical question that we ask just as important as the exegetical means we use to answer that question?6 There is no question that there has been a heavy influence by the analogy of faith in the interpretations to follow. A Reformed background has informed the writer’s