# “Friends must speak the same language” by Scott Swain

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- Published: 2025-11-05T19:30:00-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“God speaks to us in our language in this book as a consequence of his covenantal
purpose.

God desires to be our God and to make us his people.

The one who dwells in a high and lofty place, who inhabits eternity, has been pleased
to dwell with lowly men and women (Isa. 57:15).

God condescends to us in covenant communication because God condescends to us in
covenant friendship.

And friends must speak the same language.”

–Scott R. Swain, [_Trinity, Revelation, and Reading: A Theological Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation_](https://amzn.to/3NcuCdX)(
London; New York: T&T Clark, 2011), 69.

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