I never said that it was. Rather, my Patristics-oriented assertion, as compared to your hermeneutics which I have not come across before, are that this is plainly an explanation to the faithful on how to receive the Holy Spirit through baptismal regeneration.
I also assert that Christ, who is truly God Himself stresses that being born again is through baptism in John 3:5. This at least is how Lutherans and the early church and the Orthodox interpret it, as my stalwart comrade
@MarkRohfrietsch can attest (I have Mark attest to a lot, but this demonstrates the extent to which Lutherans, particularly the liturgical Confessional Lutherans, or Evangelical Catholics as they often prefer to be called, have an Orthodox
phronema. However on this point even Calvinists are in agreement. My view is that where Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, Orthodox and Roman Catholics agree, this constitutes a sufficiently ecumenical consensus.
Indeed my Calvinist friend
@bbbbbbb might be pleased to note that this is because I regard Calvinists, like Lutherans, to be among the denominations that most carefully studies the sacred scriptures, which is why on a purely scriptural basis, Calvinist systematic theology holds up. That might not be enough for those of us who desire maximum continuity from the Early Church, and for those of us who believe that there was never any kind of systematic loss of the Apostolic faith across the entire church, in other words, a past great apostasy, since all warnings concerning such an apostasy seem to point to the future.
This is also perhaps why despite being Orthodox I have such a love for Lutherans, because of the views articulated by
@ViaCrucis @MarkRohfrietsch and
@JM which tend to be in agreement with my theology, at times even more so than many Anglican members (usually Anglicans tend to be the closest to Orthodoxy, and I was briefly Episcopalian before becoming Orthodox in 2014 due to the war in Syria, after the retirement of my friend Fr. Dean). There also seems to be something of a healthy rivalry between Anglicans and Lutherans as well as cooperation between some Lutheran denominations and some Continuing Anglican churches (and of course between the ELCA and TEC and the C of E and the Lutheran churches of Northwestern Europe, the Porvoo communion, but it is less obvious and therefore more impressive to see Anglican-Lutheran cooperation persist in the more traditional environment of traditional continuing Anglicanism and confessional Lutheranism. If I recall my friend
@Shane R occasionally assists with a traditional Lutheran church in addition to his duties as an Anglican presbyter.