sacred writer, and to the conventions which the people of his time followed in their dealings with one another. 25 But since sacred Scripture must be read and interpreted with its divine authorship in mind, 26 no less attention must be devoted to the content and unity of the whole of Scripture, taking into account the Tradition of the entire Church and the analogy of faith, if we are to derive their true meaning from the sacred texts. It is the task of exegetes to work, according to these rules,