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Originally Posted by OBW
The problem with the question is not that it is wrong, but that it cuts off the consideration. Have you or anyone else tried to think beyond the question once it is there? I honestly believe that this was among Lee's tricks of reining-in our thoughts. He made anything but his premise unthinkable. Beyond question. But is it really so?
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Excellent point. The expositor framed the discussion. Instead, the exposition of meaning should find its rest within the larger discussion, whose bounds far exceed it.
Lee put out books, and books, and books. But everything in those books fit in a very narrow meaning, which of course was whatever was convenient to the subject at hand. The Brethren with their types, and then Nee who read "all the classics", both fell prey to the notion that they had exhausted the word of Scripture, and looking beyond their considerations was vain. It was not. Rather, it ultimately became shoe-horning Scripture into very narrow exegeses, and forbidding any to look beyond. "You neither enter in, nor permit others to enter"...