Rome: having Scripture is not enough — you need its true sense, hence tradition
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Rome presses again: owning the book is not enough — faith needs Scripture's true Spirit-intended sense.
Words alone are not the rule; the sense is.
That sense, they say, cannot come from Scripture alone, because the text is often ambiguous.
Without an infallible explainer — tradition — certainty fails; therefore sola Scriptura fails.
Latin
XL. Rursus instant adversarii, non satis est Scripturam in manibus habere, sed necesse est ut verum illius sensum teneamus. Nec enim fidei regula proprie sunt verba Scripturae, sed potius Scripturae sensus a Spiritu sancto intentus. Atqui verus Scripturae sensus ex sola Scriptura haberi non potest. Nam Scriptura saepissime ambigua & perplexa est, ut, nisi ab aliquo qui errare non possit explicetur, non possit intelligi: nec certi esse possimus de vero Scripturae sensu, nisi accedat traditio. Igitur Sola Scriptura non sufficit.