Sentences with phrase «not allegorical interpretation»

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It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

This allegorical interpretation, however, is not necessary to the understanding of the book and has been almost universally given up by scholars.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

Indeed, when St. Paul does happen to mention a relevant text from the Hebrew Scriptures — «You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain» (Deut 25:4)-- he does so simply to apply it by a kind of allegorical interpretation to the economic support of those who preach the gospel.

This is one of the few parables that are almost, if not quite, allegorical, and so is especially liable to erroneous and fanciful interpretations.

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

Mr. Liben's charge that «excessively allegorical interpretation» has «greatly» contributed to anti-Semitism carries implications that I am quite sure he would not wish to embrace.