As the example in the preceding paragraph shows, he often acknowledged the literal point of a Bible verse and then introduced his symbolic understanding with such words as: “Perhaps we ought to look on these things as spoken in an allegorical sense. ”
उसने अटकलें लगायी कि पीशोन नदी होशियारी की, गीहोन गंभीरता की, टिग्रिस शक्‍ति की और फरात नदी इंसाफ की निशानी है ।