“The higher our view of the Bible, the more painstaking and conscientious our study of it should be. If this book is indeed the Word of God, then away with slovenly, slipshod exegesis! We have to take time to penetrate the text until it yields up its treasures.” John Stott
“A text means what its author meant” E D Hirsch
“in preaching the message should always arise out of the Scriptures directly and not out of the formulations of men, even the best men.” D M Lloyd-Jones
“What determines the accuracy of your understanding of particular words ultimately is not scholarship but the spiritual meaning of the passage. You will find that the learned authorities often, if not generally, disagree with one another completely, and the meaning ultimately has to be determined not by some exact science but by spiritual perception, spiritual understanding; that ‘unction’ that John talks about in 1 John 2:20 and 27.” D M Lloyd-Jones
“God sometimes blesses a poor exegesis of a bad translation of a doubtful reading of an obscure verse of a minor prophet”
