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Reformation Exegesis (1500s AD) pg 56
From the dense ignorance concerning content of Scripture the Renaissance called attention to the necessity of knowing the original languages.
Erasmus facilitated this study by publishing the first edition of the Greek New Testament
Reuchlin translated the Hebrew grammar and lexicon.
Scripture has but a single sense, NOT a fourfold one.
Luther (1484 – 1546 AD) and Calvin (1509 – 1564 AD) made some initial great strides away from the methods of the wHolly Roman Church.
The reformation was fine as far as it went, but it did not go far enough, and Reformed Augustinian Theology quickly backslid into the old catholic ruts of ecclesiology, predestination, and allegorical interpretation.