CHAPTER 3 PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION If everything in the Bible were always simple and clear, there would be no need for interpreting it. Although many passages are clear and simple, there are some passages that even the biblical writers themselves admit are “hard to be understood” (2 Pet. 3:16). Furthermore, the Bible is an infinite book with a profundity of meaning that no scholar can exhaust. The scholars call the study of how to understand the Scriptures hermeneutics: the branch of theology