4 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.” 5 Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.
In response to these unsuccessful attempts, new methods of understanding the Gospel were proposed. The Gospel in its final form, rather than its literary development, was the focus. This school of interpretation believed that the Gospel meant something to whoever put it in its final form, and the interpreter should interpret it in the form we now have.
