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Besides, we don’t interpret it.
We read it and tell you what is means.

Yep, I remember that one. It was a truly ironic moment in the conversation. <insert Captain Picard facepalm here>

And what it told me then and tells me now is that this is a real problem for the Roman position. How can you discuss anything without engaging in interpretation? You can't. It's impossible. It's the elephant in the room that our FRoman friends seem completely unwilling or unable to address. So instead of acknowledging the elephant, this comical solution is offered, where we're supposed to think if we call interpretation by some other name, it isn't interpretation.

Comical, I might add, in a tragic sort of way. I am genuinely sorry for anyone who feels compelled to deny something so basic to who we are, to how God made us. God created us to hear and interpret His word. It's automatic. It's baked in to being human. You can't stop the signal. So instead of playing word games, just accept the truth. You interpret. Everybody interprets. You can't not interpret, except by being in a total coma. Better to interpret openly and honesty, than to interpret under the false cover of calling it something else.

Peace,

SR