In another essay he casts a distrustful eye to learned commentaries — in his view, they often obscure the plain meaning of the text as they explore the linguistic and historical context of a passage. (christianitytoday.com)
Somehow Angus seems more honest than all those divines who tried to explain away the plain meaning of the text. (firstthings.com)
They must thus seek to understand the plain meaning of the text, but that meaning can not be fully grasped apart from metaphysical clarification. (religion-online.org)