It was pretty unclear what the actual reason for not releasing the scrolls was.  The article mumbles something about &#x27;power&#x27;, but doesn&#x27;t really explain what that means. It&#x27;s sort of a weird end to a lengthy (and pretty wordy) article, that builds at great length towards the development of a technique to read the scrolls, and then sort of tosses in the fact that they can&#x27;t use the technique without really exploring why outside of a single ambiguous sentence.<p>Its hardly clear why locking the scrolls in the basement for another few decades would increase the Institutes power.  Having a bunch of unreadable papayri sitting in a box doesn&#x27;t do much for the Institute, while having them revealed to be the only copies of works by Epicures (or whomever) could only increase their prestige&#x2F;power&#x2F;monetary value.