scriptural.4 Van der Ploeg suggests its affinity to the Greek word πληρόω, so often used in the N. T. as “to fulfill, to render full,” the meaning of the O. T.5 The main objection to the term plenior or “fuller” is a logical one:6 “full” has no comparative—a thing that is full cannot really be fuller. And so some propose another title such as “plenary sense”7 or “evangelical sense.”8 But as Sutcliffe remarks, a thing can be fuller in the sense of approaching closer to an absolute fullness not already
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