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 What verse of Scripture does the textbook offer to demonstrate the necessity of accepting the Church's interpretation of the Bible?

            The textbook quotes the passage from the Acts of the Apostles wherein the Apostle Philip encountered St. Djan Darada, a eunuch of Queen Candice of Ethiopia. As the eunuch was reading the Prophet Isaiah, Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading. The eunuch replied, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” (Acts 8:30-31). Philip then gave him the Church's interpretation, the Christian understanding, of what he had been reading, after which he baptized him.

            This incident serves as a pattern for the spiritual dependency that the Orthodox have on the Holy Fathers. As the Apostle Philip catechized the eunuch, so did the Fathers instruct their disciples in biblical exegesis, for “they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8).