Patrick Fairbairn

And so I talked to Klein and Nicole, and I was a teaching assistant under Roger Nicole, and we discussed this.

And he pointed out that Patrick Fairbairn, the 19th century Scottish biblical theologian who wrote the two-volume work, Typology and Scripture, defended the New Testament writer's approach to the old, that we ought to not just accept what they're doing, we ought to imitate what they're doing.

And so I adopted what was then the minority report among evangelicals.

There was an organization called the ICBI, the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.

Just because you're an apostle, you can't get away with that.

No.

And so through the writings of Patrick Fairbairn as well as Greg Beal and others, respect for context was what I discovered.

That in fact, when the New Testament writers cite the Old Testament text to really understand what's going on, you've got to go back and not only reread the context, the larger passage, you've got to soak in it because just the way lawyers might cite the law in terms of Roe v.

I was a teaching assistant under Roger Nicole, and we discussed this.

And he pointed out that Patrick Fairbairn, the 19th century Scottish biblical theologian, who wrote the two-volume work Typology in Scripture, defended the New Testament writers' approach to the old, that we ought to not just accept what they're doing, we ought to imitate what they're doing.

And so I adopted what was then the minority report among evangelicals.

There was an organization called the ICBI, the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.

Just because you're an apostle, you can't get away with that.

No.

And so through the writings of, you know, Patrick Fairbairn as well as Greg Beale and others, respect for context was what I discovered, that in fact, when the New Testament writers cite the Old Testament text, to really understand what's going on, you've gotta go back and not only reread the context, the larger passage, you've gotta soak in it because just the way lawyers might cite the law in terms of Roe v.

Wade, Marbury versus Madison, Griswold versus Connecticut, these are precedents that represent part of the tradition, and you're arguing from analogy, so you gotta go back to the, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, to the, the precedents that have been passed by the Supreme Court and that sort of thing.