NOTES for Luk 24:45
What does a person need in order to read the Bible? Interest? Yes, of course, first of all interest, otherwise there is nothing to talk about: no interest, and a person will not take the book in hand. But one also needs the ability to read. What, in essence, is a text, any text: literary, artistic, musical?
Meanings embodied in signs. In words, if we are speaking of a literary work. In words that are never unambiguous, unless, of course, the matter concerns terms, but the Bible is not a theological or philosophical book, and there are no terms in it. Every literary work is a system of meanings embodied in words. And the reader has to reproduce these meanings. Recreate them. Build anew the system created by the author.
Because meanings cannot be read off as information is read from some medium on which it is recorded. They can only be restored, recreated after the author, by walking his path. Of course, not exactly as they were created or opened to the author, for copying is impossible here. Any reading of a text becomes its interpretation, whether the reader wants this or not, whether he realizes it or remains unaware, imagining that he is "reading what is written."
And this is always so, in all cases, with any literary work. But what if there is not one author? What if there are two of them: the person who created the text and God who inspired it? One cannot read a text, one cannot recreate meanings, without being interested in the author, in the one through whom the meanings were opened. And if the meanings were not opened by a human being, if they were opened to him by another Author, and the human being only expressed and embodied them?
Then without interest in the Author with a capital letter, the main thing cannot be understood. To understand the Bible means to understand God. And, of course, the people through whom He spoke as well. Jesus taught His disciples this understanding. For God is easiest to understand at His home, in His Kingdom. And the people through whom He spoke are easiest to understand through the Man in whom He became incarnate. Then revelation and life are joined, and the word of God becomes fully understandable through the "Word made flesh."