language picker-upper.
for the days when i grow weary of Greek and Hebrew…
“Precisely because we accept the reality of hermeneutical uncertainty, we work especially hard to remove that uncertainty through careful exegesis. It is no accident that Old Princeton and Westminster have been so obnoxious in requiring students to learn Greek and Hebrew. It was not some methodological misconception that led John Murray to teach courses in systematic theology that looked more like courses in exegesis. It was no blunder that made a Warfield or a Machen or a Stonehouse pay an enormous amount of attention to the work of liberal and radical scholars. These and other ‘oddities’ are direct consequences of a commitment not to leave any stones unturned to find out what the Bible really says. Our whole ministry is, in its own way, a response to our Lord’s penetrating criticism, ‘You err because you do not know the Scriptures’. With Warfield we devote ourselves to the task of knowing the Scriptures so that we will not err.” ~ Moises Silva, “Old Princeton, Westminster, and Inerrancy”, Inerrancy and Hermeneutic by Harvie Conn.
