In writing about the importance of reading old books and the joy that awaits us in them, John Piper quotes Michael Horton, who says:
"The best way to guard a true interpretation of Scripture, the Reformers insisted, was neither to naively embrace the infallibility of tradition, or the infallibility of the individual, but to recognize the communal interpretation of Scripture. The best way to ensure faithfulness to the text is to read it together, not only with the churches of our own time and place, but with the wider 'communion of saints' down through the age."
John Piper, When I Don't Desire God, 128
