Saussure and semantics

Tallis yet again: He argues that confusion of langue and parole : leads to “conflation of the idea of a world as a value or set of values within the system with the meaning of a word used on a particular occasion, that by virtue of which verbal meaning is specified with verbal meaning itself, or, indeed, meaning per se .”

Do evangelical uses of Saussure (Barr, Silva, Carson) partake of the same confusion?

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