Think of the text as a playground. On such a field a person can play whatever game they wish—kickball, hide and seek, volleyball, softball. The field has only the possibility of play; the group decides which game they wish to play and what rules they want to govern the game. So it is with a text according to this view. A text has only a possibility of understanding. The actual process and result of interpretation is decided by the reader not the book.
Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006), 478.
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