On Hermeneutics with Jared Ebert (Spotify)

Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary produces the Covenant Podcast. The podcast features various hosts and guests. The April 13, 2026 podcast (On Hermeneutics with Jared Ebert) was hosted by Austin McCormick and Dewey Doval. They interviewed Jared Ebert on the subject of hermeneutics. Ebert is working on a doctoral dissertation on William Tyndale. He aligns with Tyndale’s hermeneutic as do I. Ebert makes a good case for Scripture having only one sense as per the Westminster Confession and the Second London Confession (see 1.9 in either confession). He and his colleagues bring up several useful points: quadriga, sensus plenor, Tyndale’s stance on the literal sense, etc.

Here is how the Second London Confession Chapter 1, Section 9 reads (the Westminster Confession reads very similarly):

The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which are not many, but one), it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly.

This assertion of one sense would seem to argue against seeking the four-fold sense (quadriga) if one claims to be reformed.

I hope that Jared Ebert will be able to publish his dissertation on Tyndale as a book.