[Berlin_Freeper]

compared to:

critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible.

Which is probably more easily understood.

[Berlin_Freeper]

interpretation

[stanne]

Again HUGE news: Pope Francis explicitly endorses Benedict XVI’s “critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible, of continuity”

Like this?

To appease the dictionary repellant?

Isn’t, ‘the dumbing down’ of America something considered not good?