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What do we do when the New Testament text we are preaching seems to mis-interpret an Old Testament text? Most commonly we ignore the hermeneutics and just go with the New Testament writer’s approach. As a starting place, that’s not bad, but it is probably still important that we respect the Old Testament as much as we do the New.
Zondervan offers help with its Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, a useful primer on the issues offering the most prominent ways of approaching the issue. Each author argues for his position and then submits to critique from the other two. This is fine way for the reader to sort out the issues. We may not find ourselves able to settle on an opinion of our own, but at least we are given a range of thinking on the subject. In this case…
Walter Kaiser argues for single meaning between the old and new referents. The Old Testament is accurately and authoritatively cited by the New in his view.
Darrel Bock argues also for single meaning, but suggests that the New Testament’s use of the Old is multi-faceted, though legitimate and accurate just the same. In his view, multiple contexts and referents require different kinds of hermeneutic approaches.
Peter Enns, argues for a single goal (not meaning) achieved through a Christotelic approach. In this way of understanding, the New Testament argues for a fuller sense of meaning in it’s first-century interpretive environment.
Space does not permit detailing the arguments here. That is what the book is for. My suggestion is that the preacher could read the book for a general overview first, then use it as a helpful reference tool, utilizing the helpful scripture index at the book for consulting particular texts as we run into them in our preaching.