"God's Word is neither a human discovery nor a human invention; it is divinely disclosed truth. It requires all the intellectual and scholarly skill the student of Scripture can muster to determine what a given passage or book means, for the Word of God has been given to us in human words in non-English languages and in ancient historical situations. But when the message of Scripture has been understood, then the believer no longer sits in judgment upon its truth but lets its truth judge and control his life and thinking." George Eldon Ladd, A Commentary on the Revelation of John (1972), p. 296.
