# “Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!” by Karl Barth

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[⌊“Two Scholars Disputing” (Peter and Paul?) by Rembrandt⌉⌊“Two Scholars Disputing”(
Peter and Paul?) by Rembrandt⌉[

**_Two Scholars Disputing (Peter and Paul?)_****
 By Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
(
1628)
 Oil on panel. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

“We have been studying cheerfully and seriously. As far as I was concerned it could
have continued in that way, and I had already resigned myself to having my grave
here by the Rhine!… And now the end has come. So listen to my piece of advice: exegesis,
exegesis, and yet more exegesis! Keep to the Word, to the Scripture that has been
given to us.”

–Karl Barth, on the event of his formal farewell to his students in Bonn, just prior
to his expulsion from Germany in 1935. Quoted in Gordon Fee, _New Testament Exegesis_(
Louisville, KY.: Westminster, 2002), front matter. Fee cites Eberhard Busch, _Karl
Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts_ (Philadelphia: Fortress
Press, 1976).

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