“The scholar has a vitally important task to perform within a carefully prescribed precinct. His task is to guarantee the purity of the text, to get as close as possible to the Word as originally given. He may compare Scripture with Scripture until he has discovered the true meaning of the text. But right there his authority ends. He must never sit in judgment upon what is written. He dare not bring the meaning of the Word before the bar of his reason. He dare not commend or condemn the Word as reasonable or unreasonable, scientific or unscientific. After the meaning is discovered, that meaning judges him; never does he judge it.” ~ A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 27-28.

Amen and amen! Let the Word judge us, and may we never presume to judge the Word; in humility may we be ever students and never masters; in restraint may we know our place–to serve the people of God with our knowledge, and never to project on God’s people what we wish with our knowledge. Let Christ, and the Word of Christ, reign in all our speaking about him!