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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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