“This peculiar form or unusual manner (i.e., figure of speech) may not be true, or so
true, to the literal meaning of the words; but it is more true to their real
sense, and truer to truth. Figures are never used but for the sake of emphasis.
They
can never, therefore, be ignored. Ignorance of Figures of speech has
led to the grossest errors, which have been caused either from taking literally
what is figurative, or from taking figuratively what is literal.”
E. W. Bullinger, The
Companion Bible, App. VI
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