{"id":14303,"date":"2024-09-13T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14303"},"modified":"2024-09-01T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:09:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-13-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14303","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ag52k\" data-offset-key=\"5gj3j-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5gj3j-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5gj3j-0-0\">\u201cWe read the Bible personally, but not as isolated individuals. We read as the members of a family, the family of the Orthodox Catholic Church. When reading Scripture, we say not &#8220;I&#8221; but &#8220;We.&#8221; We read in communion with all the other members of the Body of Christ, in all parts of the world and in all generations of time. The decisive test and criterion for our understanding of what the Scripture means is the mind of the Church. The Bible is the book of the Church.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ag52k\" data-offset-key=\"7u18f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7u18f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7u18f-0-0\">(Metropolitan Kallistos Ware \u2018How to Read the Bible\u2019)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7u18f-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14304\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gr3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gr3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gr3-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gr3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe read the Bible personally, but not as isolated individuals. We read as the members of a family, the family of the Orthodox Catholic Church. When reading Scripture, we say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14305,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}