Chapter 2 Chapter Summary pg 76

• GO BACK to the grammatical-historical method of interpretation.

• (Virkler calls it 'a gradual development of' as if it were a new thing, we call it a go back to Christ's example grammatical-historical method)

• Grammatical-historical method's 7 contributors

• 1) predominant use of literal exegesis by Christ
• 2) theoretical principles (but not practices) of Augustine [less his allegorical preferences]
• 3) Syrian School of Antioch
• 4) Spanish Jews of the 12th - 15th Centuries
• 5) Nicolas of Lyra, Erasmus (Greek Text) , and Reuchlin (Hebrew Lexicon)
• 6) Luther and Calvin
• Other Scholars (more articulated as other Saints, non Roman.)

• Throughout history diabolical means are conjectured to destroy Scripture. Pay little heed, except to avoid them.