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"Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold to the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle."
Word, as in the Scriptures, not the imagination of some church father, rather than the words of Christ.
"Word" actually means "word of mouth", since at the time St. Paul wrote that letter, there was no "New Testament Scriptures" yet...
And if your response is "aha, but there were some: his letters!" Then my response is this: Epistle is a synonym for letter.
Thus, in the 50s, when St. Paul was writing his letters/epistles, the 4 Gospel accounts, Book of Acts, Revelation, etc. weren't even written yet, so he was mainly referring to keeping the Traditions of the verbal teachings him and the other Apostles passed onto the Churches they founded.
And you're literally interpreting it as the opposite to try to argue that keeping Traditions outside of Scripture is unimportant...
You see now how that is problematic?
If I were you, I would read the Early Church Fathers and see what Early Christians actually believed... If you do so, you will either come out Catholic or Eastern Orthodox...