UNION WITH CHRIST The New Testament: Vol. 2, No. 2 / October 2016 2 / October 2, No. Vol. Gift to the Reformation Westminster International Theological Reformed Seminary Evangelical Philadelphia Seminary uniocc.com Vol. 2, No. 2 / October 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFORMED THEOLOGY AND LIFE Editorial Board Members Africa Flip Buys, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Henk Stoker, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Philip Tachin, National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria Cephas Tushima, ECWA Theological Seminary, Jos, Nigeria Asia In-Sub Ahn, Chong Shin University and Seminary, Seoul, Korea UNION WITH CHRIST Wilson W. Chow, China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong Matthew Ebenezer, Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Dehra Dun, India Editorial Committee and Staff Benyamin F. 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ISSN 2380-5412 (print) ISSN 2473-8476 (online) Copyright © 2016 International Reformed Evangelical Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary. All rights reserved. Unio cum Christo® is a registered trademark of Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Printed in the United States of America and Indonesia CONTENTS The New Testament: Gift to the Reformation 5 Editorial: Freedom of Conscience: The Reformers’ and Ours / PAUL WELLS ERASMUS, BIBLE TRANSLATION, AND INSPIRATION 13 An Exhortation to the Diligent Study of Scripture / DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 29 Erasmus and the Book That Changed the World Five Hundred Years Ago / DANIEL B. WALLACE 9 4 Re-Establishment of the Christian Church in Mongolia: The Mongolian Standard Version Translation by National Christians / BAYARJARGAL GARAMTSEREN 7 6 Inerrancy Is Not Enough: A Lesson in Epistemology from Clark Pinnock on Scripture / R. CARLTON WYNNE NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES 83 The “Presentation” of the Infant Jesus in Luke 2:22–24 / MICHAEL C. MULDER 7 9 From Ignominy to Glory: Jesus’s Death and Resurrection in Calvin’s Harmony of the Gospels / W. GORDON CAMPBELL 115 The Holy Spirit in the Gospels / PETER A. LILLBACK 513 J. Gresham Machen’s The Virgin Birth of Christ: Then and Now / BERNARD AUBERT 7 15 Paul’s Preaching and Postmodern Skepticism / VERN S. POYTHRESS 3 4 UNIO CUM CHRISTO ›› UNIOCC.COM 3 17 What Paul Says about the Covenants in Galatians 3–4 / DONALD E. COBB 519 The Fourth Gospel and the Apostolic Mission: John’s Common Evangelical Theology / MATTHEW D. JENSEN 209 The Power of Literary Art in Revelation 12:1–6 / LEANDRO A. DE LIMA VATICAN II (1962–1965) 225 A Panel on Vatican II / LEONARDO DE CHIRICO, DARIUSZ M. BRYĆKO, AND JOSE DE SEGOVIA 237 Interview with Dr. Robert George / PETER A. LILLBACK BOOK REVIEWS 255 Paul A. Rainbow. Johannine Theology: The Gospel, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse / GUY PRENTISS WATERS 258 Michael Bräutigam. Union with Christ: Adolf Schlatter’s Relational Christology / ROBERT W. YARBROUGH 262 Martin Wallraff, Silvana Seidel Menchi, and Kaspar von Greyerz, eds. Basel 1516: Erasmus’ Edition of the New Testament / BERNARD AUBERT 265 Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman. Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” / RYAN M. REEVES 266 Christopher Daily. Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China / CHAD VAN DIXHOORN 926 Marilynne Robinson. The Givenness of Things: Essays / WILLIAM EDGAR 275 Contributors EDITORIAL Freedom of Conscience: The Reformers’ and Ours PAUL WELLS his issue of Unio cum Christo, in the year preceding the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s 1517 posting of the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, presents several articles that touch on reformational issues and also on New Testament themes related to them. TA central issue at the time of the Reformation was freedom of conscience in the worship of God, and it is important to recall the words of Luther before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in April 1521 that ring across the years. Interrogated by Johann Eck and requested to answer “without horns” and repudiate his books, Luther rejoined in German: Since Your Majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns and without teeth. Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason (I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other), my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither safe nor right. The earliest printed version of these words adds, “Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.” There is, however, no indication of this