Quotes about Interpretation
Dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture. The defined dogmas of our faith, then, encapsulate the Church's infallible interpretation of Scripture, and theology is a further reflection upon that work.
— Scott Hahn
Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.
— Scott Hahn
The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.
— John Bunyan
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
— John Calvin
They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.
— John Calvin
For when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.
— John Calvin
When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.
— John Calvin
What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.
— John Calvin
Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds.
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.
— Thomas Merton
And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
— Lee Ann Womack