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The Modern Era · 1920

Rightly Dividing the Word

Clarence Larkin · 1850–1924

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What it is

A collection of short studies on how Larkin held Scripture should be divided and read — law and grace, Israel and the church, the ages and their boundaries — each with its chart. Larkin drew his own charts and they carry the argument: the books were printed around them, and readers came to them for the diagrams as much as the prose.

Why it lasted

Larkin's method rather than his conclusions, and the best place to see what dispensational reading actually does to a text. Its title comes from 2 Timothy 2:15, a verse the movement made its own.

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