“When we are doing our bible interpretation we are not in a play ground having fun and making it mean what we want it to mean and caring little if others make it mean something else.  When we are doing our bible interpretation we are not in a play ground having fun interacting with the text bringing our horizon to the biblical horizon trying to fuse them and essentially ending up with a product which says this is what this means to me as if what it means to the individual is necessarily synonymous with what it means.  The real test of biblical interpretation is not the discovery of what it mean to me but is the discovery of what it means.  We are engaging in the life and death business of discerning the meaning that is there.”

by:  Christopher Ash

Source:  https://www.truthforlife.org/broadcasts/2023/02/15/introducing-esther-part-1-of-3-/
Quote beings at 7:00 minutes in the audio file.