XXX. Six illegitimate measures of sense (Vulgate, old Adam, fathers, traditions, pope, no age-care)
XXX. From what we have taught so far we rightly infer that an interpretation is weak and not solid enough or legitimate which is made (1) according to the sense as canonized in the Vulgate version — because it strikes against the object of legitimate interpretation: that version is not authentic, nor even the text the interpreter ought first to interpret; (2) according to the sense as it depends on old Adam's reason — because Sacred Scripture's sense stands above that reason and is measured by God's Spirit and the will of its writer; (3) according to the sense as measured by the fathers' sense — because then the text that bears sense from itself would be neglected; because either all the fathers' sense or only some would be the rule — neither works; because it conflicts with hermeneutical laws that acknowledge the fathers as guides, not as infallible; because they often missed the genuine sense; because they not rarely followed erroneous senses; (4) according to the sense as completed by unwritten traditions; (5) according to the sense as determined by the Church or by the Pope, for the same reasons we gave at Aph. 26; (6) without distinguishing childish and mature age, milk and solid food, which the Apostle wisely observes in teaching (1 Cor. 3:1–2; Heb. 5:12–14).
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XXX. Caeterum ex iis, quae hactenus docuimus, recte inferimus, interpretationem sublestam esse neque satis solidam & legitimam, quae fit 1. Secundum sensum, qua ille in vulgata versione canonizatus est: quia impingit in legitimae interpretationis objectum. Nam haec versio, quia non est, non est authentica, ac ne textus quidem quem interpres primo debet interpretari. 2. Secundum sensum, qua ille a ratione veteris Adami dependet: quia sacrae Scripturae sensus supra hanc rationem est a Dei spiritu & cujus scriptoris voluntate mensuratur. 3. Secundum sensum, qua ille a sensu patrum mensuratur: quia ita negligeretur textus, qui sensum ex se parit; quia aut omnium patrum sensus erit regula aut quorundam duntaxat — at non hoc neque illud; quia Hermeneuticae legibus repugnat, quae patres agnoscunt quidem manuductores, non tamen infallibiles; quia saepicule genuinum Scripturae sensum haud assecuti sunt; quia non raro secuti sunt sensus erroneos. 4. Secundum sensum, qua a traditionibus non scriptis integratur. 5. Secundum sensum, qua ab Ecclesia aut a Papa determinatus est, ob rationes easdem quas ad aph. 26. protulimus. 6. Sine discrimine infantilis & virilis aetatis, lactis & solidi cibi, quod in docendo prudenter observat Apostolus, 1. Cor. 3.1.2. Heb. 5.12-14.