Are you as bad of a scientist as you are a biblical hermeneuticist?
That depends on whether you think an exegete is good or bad. Considering hermeneutics in relation to its cognate branches of study, one need return to a more accurate scrutiny of its own contents. The science of interpretation has for its formal object the discovery and the presentation of the sense of Sacred Scripture. Starting from this fact, we may infer that:
• a complete treatise of hermeneutics ought to treat first of the sense of Scripture in general;
• it must lay down definite rules for finding this sense;
• it must teach us how to present this sense to others.