One of the ways that we insure that we handle God’s Word accurately — one of the ways that we insure that we are truly arriving at the truth (instead of fortifying our own thinking with bits and pieces of truth) — is that we examine what we emphasize compared to what is emphasized in the text.

We consider the matter of emphasis. If we are really arriving at the truth, our emphasis will match Scripture’s emphasis.

Good interpreters of Scripture place foreground matters in the foreground, and background matters in the background.