Apostolic Fathers: Why Ambiguity Matters in Textual Interpretation

Lesson Transcript

That you're not going to allow yourself to get trapped into force, being forced to make a decision that 1,500 years later, or even more, uh, 700 years later, 1,500 years later, are forcing onto the text. And so if it's ambiguous, then there's maybe a reason why it's ambiguous. And making some sort of a definition that puts out all other possibilities is just not being fair. It's not re—it's not reading the text honestly.

And so starting with the Apostolic Fathers, that's why I'm loving this, this study here, is I think it's so crucial because if we can be at home with them and, you know, and you listen to the things that they think are important, there are a different list of things that they think are important than the later apologists and later different heresies and this type of thing go on. So anyway, there's a freshness in the Apostolic Fathers that I think it's precious and we have to be sure to keep.

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