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knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
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Verse 20. No prophecy of the scripture is made by private interpretation; or, as the Protestants translate it from the Greek, is of any private interpretation, that is is not to be expounded by any one’s private judgment or private spirit. Witham.—The Scriptures cannot be properly expounded by private spirit or fancy, but by the same spirit wherewith they were written, which is resident in the Church.
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