[ShadowAce]

"Who has authority to interpret God's Word, the Church as a body or every man for himself?"

Was Scripture written to the church as a body, or to the people in it?

[donmeaker]

I would look at who sought historically to provide translations to the people, and who tried to protect the people from translations that they could understand.

Of course everyone has to interpret Scripture themselves, just because it is not practical to submit every possible decision to ‘the Church as a body’.