I can neither reject exegesis (what it meant then) nor neglect hermeneutics (what does it say today).5 But those of us who take such a stance have still further problems: (1) In the past three decades there has been a spate of literature, mostly by Roman Catholics, on the sensus plenior of Scripture, which is defined by R. E. Brown as “the deeper meaning, intended by God but not clearly intended by the human author, that is seen to exist in the words of Scripture when they are studied in the light