John 17:17

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17 Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.


These words of the Lord Jesus in Gethsemane are appropriated here in an attack on evolution-friendly readings of Scripture, with the assumption that the writer's literalist readings are not only correct but "the truth".

John 12:49-50 is treated in a similar way.