“Scripture the interpreter of Scripture.”17 We need always to appreciate that, as much as anything, the Reformation is about how to interpret the Bible correctly; the Reformation is fairly seen as one large renewed hermeneutical undertaking. As this principle has also been put, Scripture is self-interpreting or self-elucidating. This does not mean that the Bible may be interpreted in a vacuum, in isolation and without any attention to introductory or background issues like those noted earlier. But