Associations to the word «Eisegesis»

Wiktionary

EISEGESIS, noun. An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that isn't there. Compare exegesis.

Dictionary definition

EISEGESIS, noun. Personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne