Expanding Horizon of Contexts
...every unit of biblical material, however quantified, is qualified by a pattern of contexts relative to itself. Any unit is anchored in an expanding horizon of contexts—like the center of a series of increasingly larger concentric circles—that extends to the Bible as a whole.
Richard Gaffin, "Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics ," in Peter Lillback, ed., Seeing Christ in All of Scripture: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 2016), 42