Mark

Kay,

The basics of hermeneutics is to allow the ‘easy’ texts to explain the ‘difficult’ (verse 15).

This has been rejected by Cheryl, who works backwards.

But as i have shown, Cheryl doesn’t actually give a satisfactory explanation for verse 15 instead bringing her own idea of ‘husband helping bring out of deception’ into the text when the text is dealing with remaining in faith, love, holiness and self-control.

I’m not aware of any comp scholars who argue that verse 15 is the key verse in their exegesis, so i have to disagree that we use it to bolster our position. There are many offers of understanding, but i am yet to read any who are as confident as Cheryl that they ‘got it’! Or that they ‘don’t have any holes’.

It is just proper biblical exegesis to let the easy verses unlock the difficult, not vice versa.