FYI …

… The Instructive Obscurity of Scripture - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I knew one institution …  that had at least a plausible claim to such an authority. It was the religious institution I had been originally raised in. That institution, the Catholic Church, had an extra-biblical, historical claim to interpretive authority, one I could evaluate without claiming to be the ultimate judge of the Bible’s meaning.