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1 3, arg| interpreting figurative expressions literally. The author lays down rules 2 3, 4| followed the words less literally, but there would have been 3 3, 5| a figurative expression literally. For the saying of the apostle 4 3, 5| taken as if it were said literally, it is understood in a carnal 5 3, 10| that cannot, when taken literally, be referred either to purity 6 3, 15| love. Now, if when taken literally it at once gives a meaning 7 3, 17| wife are not to be taken literally, but figuratively; and if 8 3, 18| vice even if we take it literally and not figuratively, can 9 3, 22| Testament are to be taken not literally only, but figuratively as 10 3, 22| which the reader has taken literally, and which, though the authors 11 3, 29| because when the words taken literally give an absurd meaning, 12 3, 34| gave to your fathers," not literally, as if they referred to