Book, Chapter

 1        2, XXXVII | explanation of a peculiar and figurative kind; but on the present
 2        4, XII    |         the term is used in a figurative sense. For God "comes down"
 3        4, XXXVIII|   that they are spoken with a figurative meaning. He would not even
 4        4, XLIV   | inasmuch as they receive in a figurative sense the commandment which
 5        4, XLIV   |    hearers to investigate the figurative meaning: "Tell me, ye that
 6        4, XLV    |     either its literal or its figurative meaning) as "worse than
 7        4, XLV    |      crimes of Thyestes." The figurative signification of that passage
 8        4, XLV    |       it admits not only of a figurative meaning, but also of being
 9        4, XLVII  |       which, apart from their figurative meaning, present so much
10        4, L      |     but do not understand the figurative meaning, which veil is taken
11        5, LVI    |     and to be indicative of a figurative meaning existing in these "
12        5, LVIII  |    remarks, by explaining the figurative meaning at present, I shall
13        6, LXI    |     spoken in an improper and figurative sense, so that we may translate
14        6, LXI    |   other similar phrases, in a figurative manner, so far as respects
15        6, LXIV   |      God, which is taken in a figurative sense, or His "anger," or
16        6, LXX    |      fire." For all these are figurative expressions, employed to
17        8, XL     |     the proper meaning of the figurative language about sins being
18        8, LXVII  |       regard these myths in a figurative sense, and consider Minerva