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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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