Reformed Covenanter
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2 Corinthians 13:1 seems to support the view that "two or three witnesses" is a euphemism for credible evidence, rather than something to be understood in a woodenly literal fashion.
Here are David Dickson's comments on the verse:
I fore-warn you by that authority committed unto me, of the purpose of my coming unto you, now the third time, that you being twice or thrice fore-warned concerning my coming, it might be instead of two or three witnesses to certify you of my firm purpose to exercise Ecclesiastical censure amongst you: Therefore my authority is to be feared by you.
David Dickson, An exposition of all St. Paul’s epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude: wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened (London: Francis Eglesfield, 1659), p. 91.
Has anyone here anything further to add on the subject?
Here are David Dickson's comments on the verse:
I fore-warn you by that authority committed unto me, of the purpose of my coming unto you, now the third time, that you being twice or thrice fore-warned concerning my coming, it might be instead of two or three witnesses to certify you of my firm purpose to exercise Ecclesiastical censure amongst you: Therefore my authority is to be feared by you.
David Dickson, An exposition of all St. Paul’s epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude: wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened (London: Francis Eglesfield, 1659), p. 91.
Has anyone here anything further to add on the subject?
