Reply: hard places exist — but saving faith does not require piercing every obscurity
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Yes, Scripture has very hard places even the learned cannot settle.
That does not make an unwritten tradition necessary for those loci.
Faith and salvation do not require piercing every obscurity.
If they did, the Church would lack necessities — and Rome itself confesses tradition does not settle those darkest places either.
Latin
XLI. Respondeo in Scripturis esse quidem loca quaedam valde difficilia, & super quorum intellectu mens haeret: Nec satis liquido perspicere possunt, etiam doctissimi quis sit verus eorum sensus. Sed inde non sequitur necessariam esse traditionem aliquam unde petatur istorum locorum intelligentia. Nec enim necesse est ad fidem & salutem in verum sensum ejusmodi locorum penetrare. Quod si necessarium esset, Ecclesia quibusdam necessariis careret. Nam, ex confessione ipsorum adversariorum, in obscurissimis istis & perplexis Scripturae locis traditio non docet, & extra dubium ponit quis sit eorum sensus genuinus: ac de illo non minus incerti sunt Doctores Pontificii quam nostri.