The flock does not take the pastor's sense by blind obedience — but by the light of truth shown
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Believers do not swallow a pastor's reading by blind obedience or bare office.
Once the sense is shown, the light of truth itself leads them to it.
Finding a sense is harder than recognizing it when another has demonstrated it.
Like faded handwriting: after it is read aloud, the eye begins to see the strokes for itself.
Latin
XLIII. Veruntamen Scripturae sensum a Pastoribus suis commonstratum plebs fidelis non amplectitur caeca quadam obedientia, & propter eorum solam authoritatem, sed eo adducitur ipsa luce veritatis, quum ipsi semel indicata atque commonstrata est. Etenim difficilius est loci alicujus sensum invenire ac deprehendere, quam deprehensum ab alio & demonstratum, sola evidentia veritatis agnoscere & discernere. Quemadmodum multi sunt qui non possunt per se legere epistolam aliquam scriptam literis exolescentibus aut non satis apte formatis. Et tamen, postquam illis praelecta est, incipiunt agnoscere, & distinguere literarum ductus, & vident propriis oculis quid in illa contineatur.