Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
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