No longer will your Teacher hide himself but with your own eyes you will see your teacher. The patristic authors have continued the insistence of Jesus that we may have direct access to the Wisdom of the Spirit within us. For he is taught not by my words, but by the realities themselves made manifest to him by God revealing them to his inner self. Man's words are external, and serve only to give reminders. Now piety is instruction, being the learning of the service of God, and training in the knowledge of the truth, and right guidance which leads to heaven.
Interpretation is the privilege of every individual.
The author has become one more reader. In making the analogy of lectio with the spiritual guide, we can say of both that what does not lead to God is not truly lectio , cannot be a true spiritual guide. The search for God is either a priority in the Benedictine life, or the vocation is not authentic. This says that the nature of lectio is not purely intellectual but a thirst of the whole person for the Spirit. It is not curiositas which Bernard considers the first degree of pride.