"Our contention with regard to the whole of divine scripture is that it all has a spiritual meaning, but not all a bodily meaning; for the bodily meaning is often proved to be an impossibility."
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January 1, 1970

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Origen, “How divine scripture should be interpreted,” On First Principles, book 4, chapter 2, § 2, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 75