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"What the Bible says" should never be assumed to be supportive of one's own interpretations. To presume such is to by-pass the work of grace in the mind/heart, the surrender to love.
The Catholic Church says:-
To search out the intention of the sacred writers, attention should be given, among other things, to "literary forms." For truth is set forth and expressed differently in texts which are variously historical, prophetic, poetic, or of other forms of discourse. The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture. For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, and to the patterns men normally employed at that period in their everyday dealings with one another. (Dei Verbum, III, 12, 2)
The "coming time" can be any time. Maybe it embraces the Reformation, and all the various interpretations given to the text since by the 1000 or so Protestant sects.
Presumption is a terrible thing.
The Catholic Church says:-
To search out the intention of the sacred writers, attention should be given, among other things, to "literary forms." For truth is set forth and expressed differently in texts which are variously historical, prophetic, poetic, or of other forms of discourse. The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture. For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, and to the patterns men normally employed at that period in their everyday dealings with one another. (Dei Verbum, III, 12, 2)
The "coming time" can be any time. Maybe it embraces the Reformation, and all the various interpretations given to the text since by the 1000 or so Protestant sects.
Presumption is a terrible thing.
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