"The Bible is its own expositor.
Scripture is to be compared with
scripture.
---to view the word as a whole,
---and to
see the relation of its parts.
He should gain a knowledge of its grand
central theme, of God's original purpose for the world, of the rise of
the great controversy, and of the work of redemption.
---He should
understand the nature of the two principles that are contending for
supremacy, and should learn to trace their working through the records
of history and prophecy, to the great consummation.
---He should see how
this controversy enters into every phase of human experience; how in
every act of life he himself reveals the one or the other of the two
antagonistic motives; and how, whether he will or not, he is even now
deciding upon which side of the controversy he will be found."
E.G.W.