Exegetical Tradition
Whatever the slogan sola scriptura may mean to the reformers’ later admirers, for the early evangelicals themselves, it certainly did not mean that they read the Bible in isolation from the fifteen-hundred years of exegetical tradition which had come before. On the contrary, the task of interpreting scripture was inextricable from the task of interpreting the Church Fathers, as even a cursory glance through the exegetical writings of the reformers will show.
David Fink, Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis (Durham, NC: Duke University, 2012), 66