(7) For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, and to the patterns men normally employed at that period in their everyday dealings with one another.
Maana, ili kuelewa kwa hakika alichotaka kusema mwandishi mtakatifu katika maandishi, lazima kujali sana jinsi alivyoguswa na mambo mbalimbali, alivyojieleza na kusimulia kadiri ya utamaduni na nyakati za mwandishi mtakatifu, na pia kadiri ya mitindo iliyokuwa imeenea kati ya jamii mbalimbali[24]. Lakini, Maandiko Matakatifu lazima yasomwe na kufunuliwa kwa msaada wa Roho Mtakatifu mwenyewe ambaye kwa njia yake yaliandikwa[25].