4. Verbal plenary inspiration does not mean that
the writers were omniscient or imbued with plenary knowledge. Paul didn’t know
what things to pray for. John did not as yet know what he was to be, but he did
know that when Christ appears he would be like Him. Peter tells us that the
prophets of old did not understand some of the things they themselves had
written. Chafer points out:
Moses could hardly have known the typical significance latent in the history
of Adam, Enoch, Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, or of the typology of Christ hidden
in his description of the tabernacle which he wrote according to the pattern
that was showed him in the Mount. He could not have understood why no reference
should be made to the parents, or the beginning or ending of days, of
Melchisedec (Heb. 7:1-3). 13
13 L.
S. Chafer, Systematic Theology (Dallas: Dallas Seminary Press, 1947), Vol. II,
p.68.
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