All who labor in exegesis must fight the urge to smuggle our - TopicsExpress

All who labor in exegesis must fight the urge to smuggle our presuppositions into the task. There is no more glaring example of this syndrome than in the way some Arminians and Calvinists approach the warning passages in Hebrews.... it ought to be evident that commentators have perhaps not always been aware of their own presuppositions which get smuggled into the argument. Even if their interpretation of Heb 6:4–6 and 10:26–31 is correct, smuggling the supposed meaning of the text into their writing before the exegetical spadework is done is problematic. Allen, D. L. Hebrews. The New American Commentary (538).