re: #574 Obdicut

What makes you think a textual approach can’t do that? Any textual approach obviously includes an appreciation of the audience and circumstances under which it was written. And, see my post immediately above yours.

The audience, though, is constituted by the text - and scripture admits of no context. Again, you’re trying to smuggle in meanings based on a supposedly more complete view of the text and the nature of reality than that assumed by the text.