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(*phew*) Okay... computer crash somewhat restored, computer somewhat rebuilt. Sorry for the delay...

You wrote: Then please provide the official, Catholic church approved infallible interpretation of that verse for us.

This "broken record" of yours has been addressed already, innumerable times. Your problem is that you put up a provably false, unbiblical, and self-contradictory standard (i.e. "sola Scriptura"), dare people to live up to it, and then insist on some sort of micromanaged "Where's the infallible interpretation of every last verse of the Bible?" nonsense as a supposed "alternative" to sola Scriptura. False dilemma fallacy, anyone?

No... if you seek to claim that the Catholic Church must either "show where the Bible contains [Church teaching #__] and give me an infallible Catholic interpretation of those Bible verses" or else "admit defeat", you'll first have to prove that your "gold standard" on which your argument rests--i.e. "sola Scriptura"--is infallible and unequivocally true (and unequivocally taught in the Bible).

Lots of luck, with that!

Problem #1: your comments on this forum describe a belief in "sola Scriptura"; but the Bible simply doesn't work that way, nor does it ever claim that it does. Sola Scriptura is a pure figment of Luther's imagination, and his desperation to fight "Rome" blinded him to the glaringly obvious logical problems with it.

Problem #2: your comments on this forum describe a supposition that the Catholic Church has pronounced an "infallible interpretation of every last Bible verse" (at least, you've asked for something akin to that, repeatedly)... which has two sub-problems: first, the Church is not "sola Scriptura", and She does not trace every last Church teaching from the Bible, nor does She have to, nor COULD She have done so had She WANTED to do so (since the Church predated the complete Bible by hundreds of years, an She predated the earliest of the individual NT books by at least 15 years); second, the Church does NOT "micromanage" the lives of Catholics (though some Protestants like to think that, apparently), and Her teachings are often in the forms of what beliefs may NOT be accepted as "true" (e.g. Arianism, Nestorianism, Protestantism, etc.).

I do wonder what it would take to put this old, illogical canard of "show me the infallible interpretation of verse [x]!" to rest, once and for all...