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Were New Testament writers’ Old Testament quotations accurate? Both redaction and canon criticism have made this question one of their starting points. The apostles were utterly convinced that Old Testament writing anticipated the marvelous events they proclaimed. Did they give meaning to meaningless Old Testament texts? Did they squeeze fulfilled prophecy out of dry passages? Walter Kaiser...

as some kind of precedent for bypassing the otherwise dreary tools employed in exegetical skills? Daniel Fuller8 has shown the weakness of that whole line of argumentation. The word “to receive” (dechomai) in 1 Corinthians 2:14 means “to welcome with pleasure, willingly, and earnestly.” Had the word been lambanō, then the idea would have been simply “to receive something.” Furthermore, the word for “know” (ginōskō) means not just perceiving a thing as such but “embracing things as they really are.”9
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