The Totality of Scripture

Scripture is not a bundle of truisms, true stories, and legislations which somehow on their own and apart from the whole can be properly understood and appropriated. Scripture, inspired Word of God as it is, is the prophetic and apostolic witness which norms our understanding of the speaking and acting of God which began in the creation, continued through the history of the Old Testament people, was fulfilled in the incarnate Word, and now in the speech and life of the Church moves toward its appointed end in the resurrection of the dead and the eternal Kingdom of God. The deep reason for the details must be sought in the whole...

Dr. William Weinrich
It Is Not Given to Women to Teach
Fort Wayne: Concordia Theological Seminary Press, pp. 9-10