Book, Chapter

 1 pref,   0| directions, fail to penetrate the meaning of obscure passages in Scripture,
 2   1, arg |        shows that to discover the meaning we must attend both to things
 3   1,   1 |  discovery and enunciation of the meaning, and is to be undertaken
 4   1,   1 |           ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making
 5   1,   1 |          mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained.
 6   1,   1 |         mode of making known, the meaning; a great and arduous undertaking,
 7   1,  36 |         other hand, a man draws a meaning from them that may be used
 8   1,  36 |           happen upon the precise meaning which the author whom he
 9   1,  36 |             Whoever takes another meaning out of Scripture than the
10   1,  37 |           if he takes up rashly a meaning which the author whom he
11   1,  37 |        cannot harmonize with this meaning. And if he admits that these
12   1,  37 |          then it follows that the meaning he had put upon the former
13   2,   6 |     ambiguities, substituting one meaning for another; and in some
14   2,   6 |          obscure as to shroud the meaning in the thickest darkness.
15   2,   6 |         as when he draws the same meaning from that passage in Canticles,
16   2,  12 |            the Word. When now the meaning of the two translators is
17   2,  12 |           translator, to whom the meaning is not well known, is deceived
18   2,  12 |            And so he saw the true meaning who translated: "Their feet
19   2,  12 |        any other way. And yet the meaning is very clear; for it is
20   2,  13 |            often departs from the meaning of his author, we must either
21   2,  13 |     language than that any deeper meaning is intended. Again, that
22   2,  13 |       takes away nothing from the meaning. Yet a more learned man
23   2,  13 |         effort attain to the true meaning, but still a man of slower
24   2,  13 |          ambiguous too, as if the meaning might be, that the folly
25   2,  13 |        unless by reference to the meaning. It would be better then
26   2,  14 |                 chap. 14. How the meaning of unknown words and idioms
27   2,  14 |           words and phrases whose meaning we do not know, so that
28   2,  15 |         to the clearing up of the meaning. The Latin texts, therefore,
29   2,  16 |     reader to a standstill, their meaning is to be traced partly by
30   2,  16 |          interpreted that name, a meaning so important would lie unnoticed.
31   2,  16 |          light it throws upon the meaning of our Lord's command, that
32   2,  24 |          was not because they had meaning that they were attended
33   2,  24 |       them that they came to have meaning. And so they are made different
34   2,  24 |         devils is maintained have meaning just in proportion to each
35   2,  37 |         much for ascertaining the meaning as for setting forth the
36   2,  37 |          as for setting forth the meaning when it is ascertained.
37   2,  37 |           in the discovery of the meaning, provided only that men
38   2,  39 |          than in ascertaining the meaning of unknown signs, the topic
39   3,   2 |        are more than two), give a meaning in harmony with the faith,
40   3,   4 |         been less doubt about the meaning; or, indeed, if he had added "
41   3,   6 |         apprehend their spiritual meaning, they had learnt to adore
42   3,  11 |      dominion of lust. And if its meaning be clear, we are not to
43   3,  12 |          and the hidden kernel of meaning they contain is to be picked
44   3,  12 |         him, either has a further meaning in what he does, or is sinful.
45   3,  15 |      literally it at once gives a meaning of this kind, the expression
46   3,  27 |        Scripture, even though the meaning the writer intended remain
47   3,  27 |      whether he draws a different meaning from the words, but one
48   3,  27 |        perhaps saw that this very meaning lay in the words which we
49   3,  28 |                  When, however, a meaning is evolved of such a kind
50   3,  28 |            we may either obtain a meaning about which there is no
51   3,  29 |          by the tone of voice the meaning we desire to convey; as
52   3,  29 |          literally give an absurd meaning, we ought forthwith to inquire
53   3,  34 |          prophet, in his depth of meaning, while speaking of the carnal
54   3,  37 |    promises and the law, make one meaning to be understood where another
55   4,   1 |           ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making
56   4,   1 |          mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained.
57   4,   1 |          mode of making known the meaning." As, then, I have already
58   4,   1 |          mode of ascertaining the meaning, and have given three books
59   4,   1 |          mode of making known the meaning, in order if possible to
60   4,   5 |    carefully searching into their meaning. For there are who read
61   4,   5 |        careless about knowing the meaning. It is plain we must set
62   4,   5 |        correctly apprehends their meaning. ~
63   4,   7 |          any way have put another meaning upon it. He did not hesitate
64   4,  10 |         expresses and conveys the meaning intended. Whence a certain
65   4,  20 |           for words of equivalent meaning, or by retaining the words