Private interpretation
private interpretation.
2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
The phrase private interpretation is from two words private[1] interpretation[2]
What Fables might Peter be talking about when he says in 2 Peter 1:16 we be devising them through our private interpretation?
- ↑ 2398 ~ἴδιος~ idios \@id’-ee-os\@ of uncertain affinity; ; adj AV-his own 48, their own 13, privately 8, apart 7, your own 6, his 5, own 5, not tr 1, misc 20; 113
- 1) pertaining to one’s self, one’s own, belonging to one’s self
- ↑ 1955 ἐπίλυσις epilusis [ep-il’-oo-sis] from 1956 to expound; n f; TDNT-4:337,543; [{See TDNT 456 }] AV-interpretation 1; 1
- 1) a loosening, unloosing
- 2) metaph. interpretation