Calling Witnesses Who Testify Against You: Gary DeMar, Lightfoot, and France

In his August 18th post, “Who and When Were the ‘Last Days Scoffers’?”, Gary DeMar calls two witnesses. 1 The first is John Lightfoot, the seventeenth-century Hebraist, quoted from an assize sermon on James 5:9. 2 The second is R. T. France, whose Tyndale commentary on Matthew is cited on the meaning of Matthew 26:64. 3 Both quotations are accurate. Neither witness says what the post needs him to…