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What you said about W.L. is true. What you said about the exclusive Brethren is not. The Brethren were and are dispensationalists, and it is well known that dispensationalist hold to a Literal Grammatical Historical Method.
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In the beginning, the exclusive Brethren held to their strict principles. Once Darby began his public assaults on Newton and later Muller, (~1845 AD) he and his cronies (particularly Wigram) developed all sorts of extra-biblical interpretations of O.T. stories to justify their actions. That begun a downward spiral which has never changed.
Today's true Darby exclusives are among the weirdest of the weird. Their aberrant interpretive principles for fellowship are so codified in extra-biblical legalism that no one could possibly join them. Even C.H. Macintosh in his day lamented the slow decay of evangelism among them due to excessive focus on "truth and light."