“The insistence that scripture interprets itself is simply the hermeneutical correlate of justification by faith alone.” [1]
“Take Christ out of the Scriptures and what will you find left in them?”[2]
[1] Forde, “Authority in the Church: The Lutheran Reformation,” A more radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism,) LQ Books (2004) 66.
[2] LW 33:26.