Humanism and Exegesis
...the philological emphasis of Renaissance humanism marks a significant departure in the history of exegesis and hermeneutics and, in recognizable continuity with the increased interest in the “letter” of the text characteristic of at least one tendency in later medieval exegesis, is a source both of the exegetical methods of the Reformation and of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century problem of authority and certainty
Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 59.