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Updated: May 15, 2025
Now, no doubt the prophet was thinking of the literal Jerusalem; but the city is ideal, as is shown by the bulwarks which defend, and by the qualifications which permit entrance. And so we must pass beyond the literalities of Palestine, and, as I think, must not apply the symbol to any visible institution or organisation if we are to come to the depth and greatness of the meaning of these words.
A passion for the exact literalities of the Bible is too amiable, not to be gratified in this case. The objector's principle of interpretation is a philosopher's stone! Its miracle touch transmutes five feet eight inches of flesh and bones into solid silver!
The legists with mechanical fidelity, full of obstinacy, enemies of philosophy, buried in literalities have always mistaken for the last word of science that which was only the inconsiderate aspiration of men who, to be sure, were well-meaning, but wanting in foresight.
A passion for the exact literalities of the Bible is so amiable, it were hard not to gratify it in this case. The objector's principle of interpretation is a philosopher's stone! Its miracle touch transmutes five feet eight inches of flesh and bones into solid silver!
It will be too late to cry for quarter when they find its stroke clearing the whole table, and tilting them among the sweepings beneath. A passion for the exact literalities of Bible language is so amiable, it were hard not to gratify it in this case. The objector's principle of interpretation is, a philosopher's stone!
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