{"id":4302,"date":"2014-06-18T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2014-06-18T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:06:54","slug":"the-purpose-of-biblical-exposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Biblical Exposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent volume, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1jzozLu\"><em>Philippians, Colossians<\/em>, in the <em>Reformation Commentary on Scripture<\/em><\/a> series, Graham Tomlin opens by noting the \u201cremarkable difference in tone and approach,\u201d indeed a different \u201cset of interests\u201d between commentaries of the Reformation era and those of our day. To illustrate this difference he cites from the preface to a commentary on Philippians by Lancelot Ridley, a 16<sup>th<\/sup> century commentator who wrote that his aim is that his readers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should not perish but live here a life acceptable to God, always in the love and fear of God, by true knowledge of him, which knowledge comes by hearing, reading, studying of God\u2019s word, or by preaching of it, or by reading of some exposition or commentary \u2026 wherein God\u2019s word is purely and sincerely opened and declared to God\u2019s glory and to the profit of others. (spelling modernized)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In contrast, Tomlin notes, too often today commentaries are caught up with academic exactitude but miss the heart of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>We would do well to learn from our forebears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent volume, Philippians, Colossians, in the Reformation Commentary on Scripture series, Graham Tomlin opens by noting the \u201cremarkable difference in tone and approach,\u201d indeed a different \u201cset of interests\u201d between commentaries of the Reformation era and those of our day. To illustrate this difference he cites from the preface to a commentary on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Purpose of Biblical Exposition&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}