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Chapter XLII.—Interpretation of Scripture.
Then Peter, commending his statement,
said:876
| 876 [This
discourse of the Apostle (chaps. 42–51) has no exact parallel in
the Homilies. It is a fitting conclusion to the
discussion.—R.] | “Ingenious men, as I
perceive, take many verisimilitudes from the things which they read;
and therefore great care is to be taken, that when the law of God is
read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own
mind. For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which
can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for
himself; and this ought not to be done. For you ought not to seek
a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without,
which you may confirm from the authority of the Scriptures, but to take
the sense of truth from the Scriptures themselves; and therefore it
behoves you to learn the meaning of the Scriptures from him who keeps
it according to the truth handed down to him from his fathers, so that
he can authoritatively declare what he has rightly received. But
when one has received an entire and firm rule of truth from the
Scriptures, it will not be improper if he contribute to the
establishment of true doctrine anything from common education and from
liberal studies, which, it may be, he has attached himself to in his
boyhood; yet so that, when he has learned the truth, he renounce
falsehood and pretence.”
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