Third, therefore, while the human sacred authors comprehended as much as was necessary to permit them to set down the text,[43] the Holy Spirit’s intentions were not limited by what we may surmise to be the bounds of the original audience’s understanding.
SacredScripture is to be studied and lived for growth in wisdom, sanctity, and communion with God.
An interpretation of the SacredScriptures contrary to the authentic law of God is not simply a “different interpretation” or an interpretation “plausible for the historical context of the Ancient Near East,” but it is an interpretation that is incorrect where the inspired meaning is concerned, even if it is a plausible misunderstanding.
104 In SacredScripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God".
To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.
According to a saying of the Fathers, SacredScripture is written principally in the Church's heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God's Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (".
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