JETS 23:3 (September 1980) p. 221 The rationale for this type of pre-understanding on the part of the NT writers varies among contemporary scholars. Some attempted to explain this alleged gap between the OT writer’s meaning and the apparently new use made of that OT text by the Christian community and the apostolic writers as a new work of the Holy Spirit. That is the point of Prosper Grech: The Holy Spirit is not only the author of the written word, but also of its interpretation. Earle Ellis remarks