Add to ORKGOne is sometimes tempted to the thought that the theologian\u27s work is often carried out not in obedience to the Great Commission of Matt. 28:19 f.: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations … teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, but rather in compliance with an unknown saying which might run: Go ye therefore and discuss with all nations, … and make into problems whatsoever I have commanded you.” It is thus with some diffidence that I have left the word problem in the heading of this paper. But I do it for the following reason. One does not have to do much reading in the Biblical disciplines to realize that hermeneutics has at present gained a position of central importance in this field, as in the whole ...