propoundings

Updated: May 9, 2025

The mariner replied in answer to the scriptural objection that the inspired writers were not speaking technically as cosmographers, but figuratively, in language addressed to all comprehensions, and that the commentaries of the fathers were not to be considered as philosophical propoundings, which it was necessary either to admit or refute.

Henry Frith - Notable Voyagers: From Columbus to Nordenskiold