...it has long been a standing rule with me, when about to expound a text or context, first to study the naked scripture, generally in the original, without note or comment; lest the weight of a commentator’s opinion should bias my own judgment in the sifting of terms. Afterwards my rule has been, to examine authorities, and compare them, with the results of my own cogitations. This rule I learned at the feet of our Gamaliel, and twenty years practice has confirmed the opinion of its practical wisdom....
...every man is bound, by the highest authority, to interpret scripture in consistency with scripture—“according to the analogy of the faith.” Rom. xii. 6.
George Junkin in The Vindication, containing a History of the Trial of the Rev. Albert Barnes, Philadelphia, PA: W. S. Martin, 1836, pp. 17-18.
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