Knowing this first,.... Especially, and in the first place, this is to be known, observed, and considered;that no prophecy of the Scripture, that is contained in Scripture, be it what it will,is of any private interpretation: not that this is levelled against the right of private judgment of Scripture; or to be understood as if a private believer had not a right of reading, searching, examining, and judging, and interpreting the Scriptures himself, by virtue of the unction which teacheth all things; and who, as a spiritual man, judgeth all things; otherwise, why are such commended as doing well, by taking heed to prophecy, in the preceding verse, and this given as a reason to encourage them to it?
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2 Peter 1:20
2 Peter 1:20
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