Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 1:20

20 Knowing this first that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation .

Either, principally and above other things, as being most worthy to be known; or, knowing this as the first Principle of Faith, or the first thing to be Believed.

The Greek word here used, may be rendred, either, 1. as our Translators do Interpretation or Explication, and then the meaning is, not that private Men are not to interpret the Scripture, only refer all to the Church▪ but that no Man, nor Company of Men, no Church nor publick Officers are to interpret the Scripture of their own Heads, according to their own Minds, so as to make their private sence be the sence of the Scripture, but to seek the understanding of it from God, who shews them the meaning of the Word in the Word it self (the more obscure places being expounded by the more clear) and by his Spirit leads Believers in their searching the Scripture, into the understanding of his Mind in it. God himself being the Author of the Word, as v. 21. is the best Interpreter of it: Or, 2 Mission or Dimission, a Metaphor taken from Races, where they that ran, were let loose from the Stage where the Race began, that they might run their Course. The Prophets in the Old-Testament are said to Run, as being God's Messengers, Ier. 23.21. and God is said to send them, Ezek. 13.6, 7. and then this doth not immediately concern the Interpretation of the Scripture, but the first Revelation of it, spoken of in the next Verse; and the question is not, Who hath Authority to Interpret the Scripture now written? but, What Authority the Pen-Men had to write it? and consequently, what respect is due to it? and, why Believers are so carefully to take heed to it. And then the meaning is, that it is the first Principle of our Faith, that the Scripture is not of Human Invention, but Divine Inspiration; that the Prophets writ not their own private Sence in it, but the Mind of God; and at his Command, not their own Pleasure.

Marginal references: Rom. 12.6.