John Stott in Between Two Worlds

To begin with, we have to transport ourselves back, by the use of both our knowledge and our imagination, into the biblical writer’s context, until we begin to think what he thought and feel what he felt. Our responsibility is not to assimilate his views to ours, by reading our opinions back into what he wrote, but assimilate our views to his, by struggling to penetrate into his heart and mind (185).