However, the proper mixture of light and shade, in such compositions; the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense; have ever been considered as points of great nicety.
Leaving it to waver between the figurative and the literal sense.
But if men will undertake to explain scripture in their own strength and wisdom, what must we expect but to have them mangled and made havoc of, or explained in a mere mystical or literal sense?
If they are to be understood only in a literal sense as they are expressed, I can quote as many, or more spoken by Christ and his apostles, which will contradict them in their literal sense.
What you say of men's explaining scripture in their own Strength and wisdom, and of their making havoc of, and mangling them by explaining them in a mystical or literal sense, I find myself rather embarrassed about.
The Bishop's mistake consists in taking these expressions in a literal sense, "a proper death and resurrection.
This is a complete setting aside of any gross, literal sense to be given to his language.
Moreover, he was a Pharisee, and it is difficult to see how he could have "gloried in the cross" had he taken the cross in a literal sense.
Nobody insists that the characters in the parables accredited to Jesus must be taken in a literal sense.
To get over, in a literal sense, to be able to cross; implying difficulty, S.
The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literal sense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
