Immanence and the "art" of interpreting in Spinoza

Our purpose is to present and discuss Spinoza's method of interpreting the Scriptures, developed and applied by Spinoza himself. In fact, once found in the maturity of his thinking, and involved in politics in favor of his pensioner Jan de Witt, head of the liberal party, he interrupts his prime work, the Ethics, to write the Tractatus thelogico-politicus (TTP), in which he defends the libertas philosofandi by distinguishing the fields of reason and faith, associating this last one to the function of a mere instructor of the common people, incapable of ascending to virtue by the path of the natural light, a path which is proper of the wise who does not act due to the fear of coercion or to the reward of the action, but only due to the intellectual love to the summum bonum. It is for this matter that his entire work will become an interpretation of the Sacra Scriptura and a proposal of a method capable of explaining it by itself, immanently, in the similarity of how the sciences study nature.