Outside reference are not required to solves riddles'.
The teaching of the Bible is self-contained. When you require outside history a requirement for understanding the Bible, you make the historian into an apostle. If the scripture itself is 'profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness' then there can be no requirement imposed which says that it is only profitable for those things if you have these other resources.
- Ro 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
- 2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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