Richard Longenecker

That's right.

I mean, Richard Longenecker was the big name at the time, and he was an evangelical, but he leaned into this idea that, oh, no, we dare not interpret the...

the Old Testament in imitation of the New Testament writers.

But wait a minute, you know, they were imitating Jesus on the road to Emmaus.

And so for me, it was pretty obvious that you read the New Testament writers and they're imitating Jesus and how they're reading the Old Testament, the Law and the Prophets.

And then Richard Longenecker, who was very influential as a world-class evangelical biblical scholar, you know, pointed out that while they had apostolic authority, they had a sort of license to read the Old Testament passages in the light of Christ that we dare not imitate today.

And so the idea that you could imitate the New Testament writers as they interpret the old and see the fulfillment in Christ, you have to accept what they're doing, but you can't adopt those interpretive practices because you're not an apostle.

You don't have that first century charism that they had.

And so for me, it was pretty obvious that you read the New Testament writers, and they're imitating Jesus in how they're reading the Old Testament, the law and the prophets.

And then Richard Longenecker, who was very influential as a world-class evangelical biblical scholar, you know, pointed out that while they had, uh, apostolic authority, they had a sort of license to read the Old Testament passages in the light of Christ that we dare not imitate today.

Ah.

You know? And so the idea that you could imitate the New Testament writers as they interpret the old and see the fulfillment in Christ, uh, you have to accept what they're doing, but you can't adopt those interpretive practices because you're not an apostle.