You can disagree with an interpretation, but you can’t disagree that someone else interpreted a sentence the way they did. The comments and upvotes in the comments tell you very clearly how others are interpreting it.
As a +1 explicit data point, I’ll tell you right now that I also read it as the priest being the painter at first.
I disagree. Hence why I wrote “related” and not “painted”.
You can disagree with an interpretation, but you can’t disagree that someone else interpreted a sentence the way they did. The comments and upvotes in the comments tell you very clearly how others are interpreting it.
As a +1 explicit data point, I’ll tell you right now that I also read it as the priest being the painter at first.