Lest some devout reader should take literally the love poetry of the Canticles, the fathers allegorized it as the love of Christ for his Church.
Origen tells us,[279] moreover, that he often introduced excerpts from the books of Moses and the Prophets, and allegorized them with ingenuity.
Some who allegorized the Torah were not content with discovering a deeper meaning beneath the law, but went on to disregard the literal sense, i.
He was conscious of his philosophic grasp of the Torah, and the diffidence with which he allegorized in his early works gave place to a serene confidence that he had a lesson for his own and for future generations.
They allegorized when an allegory was invited, whereas Philo and his school often forced their philosophical meanings in face of the clear purport of the text, and without regard to the Hebrew.
The latter were allegorized and spiritualized, and came to serve merely as material for poetry.
After this Fashion is the rest of the Parable of the Figtree to be allegorized out of the Fathers.
In yet a third, Zeus is her sire and Nemesis her mother; and thus the lesson of the tale of Troy was allegorized in Helen's pedigree.
Thus Empedocles, after the fashion of the Pythagoreans, allegorized his four elements.
Goethe allegorized the whole, and turned the episode of Helen into a parable of modern poetry.
This very silly and obscure story is allegorized into the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary.
The Neo-Platonists, they say, dealt largely in myths, and allegorized everything; somebody allegorized Homer just about that time.
Others, again, offer the excuse that Philo had allegorized very much, and Origen admired Philo.
These cravings are allegorized in a romance of love, which blends medieval mysticism with modern sensuousness.
If the Car of Death expressed the uneasy dread that fell on the Italians at the opening of the century, the shows of 1513 allegorized their mad confidence in the fortune of the age, which was still more deeply felt and widely shared.
And all this was allegorized in Melchizedek, who, when his country was invaded, instead of joining the five kings who resisted, loved his enemy, gave the invader food and drink.
Here are the facts which are allegorizedin the history of Christian, passing through the Valley of Humiliation, and fighting with the Prince of the power of the air.
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