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Originally Posted by aron
So my question is, how can a book so deficient in explanation be held up by anyone as the, or even a, definitive exposition of the Bible? I can only surmise, as one of the posters has previously done earlier, that Lee was so tapped out by his exhaustive work in the NT that he simply had no gas left in the tank to give the Psalms (among other works) the careful study it deserved. So he just blew off chapter after chapter with a perfunctory wave of the hand: "Not according to the NT economy". And his captive (pun quite intended) audience was forced to take the "definitive Biblical exposition" from this "rich ministry". Child, please.
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When it came to the OT, Lee followed the old Brethren pattern of "looking for Christ." For the most part, it had little to do with "life" study. OT scripture was evaluated based on whether Christ could be seen in type, prophecy, figure, etc. Unfortunately, after the 80's came around, Lee had little desire to learn spiritual lessons from the OT characters. Perhaps his course of action dramatically changed after he begun I Samuel. He totally missed the message concerning "old Eli and his sons," which should have struck real close to home, and instead latched on to his ridiculous notions about Samuel being the "acting God."
His commentary on Psalms was part of this fallout. If a Psalm could directly point to Christ, like Psalm 22, then it was extolled as worthwhile according to God's economy. If he could not "find Christ," then the Psalm was worthless according to God's economy, and considered to be merely human sentiment of little value. WL really believed that his method of interpretation was on the highest plane, and part of his "high peak" ministry of his final years. He truly believed that he had culminated and consummated the NT ministry, and he himself had grown to such a stage that he could now evaluate and rate all the passages of the Bible.
It seems that Lee somehow experienced delusions of grandeur, almost as a megalomaniac, where he was completely above the law, and any critic of his teachings or decisions must be attacking God's throne itself,
even though the "critic" was just a little upset that his wife was molested by Philip Lee in the LSM offices.