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(Acts 8:26–39; John 6:40–44) St. Philip asks the clerk: “Do you understand what you are reading?” He replied: “How can I understand if someone does not instruct me?” ( Acts 8:30–31 ) How often do those who read the word of God and the scriptures of the Fathers experience the same thing! What you read does not fit in your head; the mind cannot heed this and embrace it, as if we are talking about something alien to it, about objects from an unknown region. This is where you need an interpreter who is familiar with what the word is about. St. Philip had the same spirit that gave prophecies, and it was not difficult for him to interpret, which made it difficult for the clerk. So it is for us now: we need to find a person who would stand at that level of life and knowledge that concerns the scripture that complicates us, and he will explain it without difficulty, because each degree has its own spiritual horizons. Someone standing on a lower level does not see everything that someone standing on a higher level sees, and can only guess about it. If it happens that Scripture, which is incomprehensible to us, concerns subjects of a higher degree, and the interpreter we meet is on a lower level, he will not explain it to us properly, but will apply everything to his own horizons, and the matter will remain dark for us as before. One must marvel at how people who are completely alien to the area to which those objects belong begin to interpret the subjects of Scripture. And things don’t turn out as they should; They do not forget to stand out with their interpretations. You might be interested in: