Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Allegorical Interpretation of Scripture

    idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    allegory · figurative signification · figures and riddles · symbol

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The recurring interpretive method of reading places, numbers, animals, and scriptural details as symbols of spiritual realities.

    Whence divinely the Scripture says:
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    So when the memorial of the heavenly and divine food was commanded to be consecrated in a golden jar, "the gomor," it says, "was the tenth of the three measures.
    chapter 7
    Whether, then, Egypt and the land of Canaan are a symbol of the world and of deceit, or of passions and vices, from which one must abstain, and what things are to be practised as divine and not worldly, the oracle shows us.
    chapter 3

    De Carnis ResurrectioneLate Antiquity · Latin

    The method of reading prophecy figuratively, contested between heretical and orthodox uses.

    So far does an allegorical defence of the bodily resurrection lie at hand for us too.
    de carnis resurrectione
    So the form of prophetic speech is not always nor in all things allegorical, but sometimes and in certain things.
    de carnis resurrectione
    that it is lawful for us too to claim the bodily resurrection from the patronage of likewise figured prophetic speech.
    de carnis resurrectione