Author Archives: Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr.

To rob the Church of the truth gleaned through the exegesis of Scripture, passages are wrested to diminish the substantive or intrinsic significance of the written word. For instance, counsel, covenant, truth, judgments, testimonies, and law are considered subjects taught uncoupled from the ontological character of God’s written word. These subjects may be pure andContinue reading “No Middle Ground Between Theologically and Anthropologically Sourced Bibliology”

That the immutable written word’s delivery by immediate inspiration into a sin cursed world put the Scripture into a comprehensive, adversarial context cannot be underestimated. Everything and everywhere the pure word of God touched and was carried suffered under the devastation of the curse. And indeed, if left up to historic, sin-cursed methods, the immediatelyContinue reading “Sunday Musings On Why We Do What We Do”

This post does not directly relate to an apologetic for a standard sacred text. What is does, however, is demonstrate the depth of study engaged in by our Reformation era forefathers before coming to an exegetical decision. Willet stands as perhaps the principal example of this era to the opposite of the claim of “nonscientific.”Continue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621) on the Ten Churchly Exegetical Renderings of Romans 7”

On June 9, 1973, was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Belmont, New York in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators. Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, and never since approached, winning the Triple Crown ofContinue reading “Secretariat and 1 John 5:7”

A recurring maneuver of evangelical apologists for the critical text is to insinuate that those who support a standard sacred text resist or reject reformation era text critical work. This of course is a feckless fallacy of the interlocular. The conspicuous difference between pre-critical and post-critical text critical work is that pre-critical text criticism workedContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621), Matthew Poole (1624-1679), and Matthew Henry (1662-1714) and the critical examination of the authorship of 2 Samuel”

Since the Enlightenment, theologically oriented Academia’s trajectory has been to degrade the Christian sacred text through radical humanization. After demonizing the Reformation definition of inspiration described as dictation, (a word used by our Reformation era forefathers that has the explanatory scope to include holy men of God and the Holy Spirit as the creative, activeContinue reading “The Killing of Immediate Inspiration”

“Now the Church must hear Christ’s voice. Christ’s sheep will hear his voice, John 10:16. They will neither hear nor follow a stranger, ver. 5. Christ’s voice is not to be heard but in the Scriptures. Therefore other doctrine must not be received of the Church than is taught and delivered in the Scriptures. ThisContinue reading “Andrew Willet, (1562-1621), on the Sufficiency of Scripture”

I was recently invited to teach my mom’s Sunday School class while visiting her in Florida. At 67 I was the “spring chicken” Sunday, but we had a marvelous time together around the things of the Lord. As class started a young man that I learned later was 20 came in and sat down withContinue reading “An Explanatory Anecdotal Story”

On February 18, 2022, I posted an article entitled “Dr. Mark Ward, Psalm 12:6-7, and the Historic Exegetical Argument for the Providential Preservation of God’s word.” Now approaching the two-year anniversary of this response to Dr. Ward’s opposition to Psalm 12:6-7 teaching the providential preservation of Scripture, I thought I would follow up on Dr.Continue reading “After Two Years Where is Dr. Mark Ward on Psalm 12:6-7?”

Andrew Willet (1562-1621) was arguably the most accomplished of the Church of England’s Hebrew exegetes, specifically of the Pentateuch, and a prolific and outspoken writer against the papacy. Except, however, for a few references to Willet as a Hebrew scholar and orthodox theologian, modern examination of Willet’s writings has been limited to his poetry, andContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621) and the Use of the Septuagint (LXX) in His Hexaplas.”