great a difference is there between the authority of the prophets
and the curiosity of the sacrilegious.

Likewise Pope Clement:

=For the understanding of Sacred Scriptures knowledge of profane
writings is shown to be necessary.=

It has been reported to us that certain ones dwelling in your
parts are opposed to the sacred teaching, and seem to teach just
as it seems best to them, not according to the tradition of the
fathers, but after their own understanding; for, as we have
heard, certain ingenious men of your parts draw many analogies of
the truth from the books they read. And there special care must
be taken that when the law of God is read, it be not read or
taught according to the individual's own mental ability and
intelligence. For there are many words in divine scripture which
can be drawn into that meaning which each one, of his own will,
may assume for himself; but this should not be so, for you ought
not to seek out a meaning that is external, foreign, and strange,
in order, by any means whatsoever, to establish your view from
the authority of scriptures; but you should derive from the
scriptures themselves the meaning of the truth. And therefore it
is fitting to gain knowledge of the scriptures from him who
guards it according to the truth handed down to him by the
fathers, and that he may be able correctly to impart that which
he rightly learned. For when each one has learned from divine
scriptures a sound and firm rule of truth, it will not be strange
if from the common culture and liberal studies, which perhaps he
touched upon in his youth, he should also bring something to the