2 Peter 3:16

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215
Now all men, having the same judgment, some, following the Word speaking, frame for themselves proofs; while others, giving themselves up to pleasures, wrest Scripture, in accordance with their lusts.

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius

AD 320
The sum of the matter is this: The unlearned and the foolish esteem false religions as true, because they neither know the true nor understand the false.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Now, unquestionably, the Divine Scriptures are more fruitful in resources of all kinds for this sort of facility. Nor do I risk contradiction in saying. But all these (instances) I believe to be unknown to those who are in a state of agitation at our proceedings; or else known by the reading alone, not by careful study as well; in accordance with the greater bulk of "the unskilled"

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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