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 1 6 |           the actual text and its meaning. With this same purpose
 2 50|      perfectly clear. The precise meaning, too, that attaches to particular
 3 50|      words we want so much as the meaning of words."[87] We do not
 4 50|    re-reading it and weighing its meaning, compelled him to an ever-growing
 5 50|           Sacred Books their full meaning.~In the first place, then,
 6 50|         the literal or historical meaning:~I earnestly warn the prudent
 7 51|       passages have no historical meaning: "We are not rejecting the
 8 51|         the literal or historical meaning, Jerome goes on to seek
 9 51|           dig deep for its divine meaning."[92]~
10 52|         searching for this deeper meaning we must proceed in due order, "
11 52| sufficiently based on the literal meaning:~When all these promises
12 54|      literal to the more profound meaning in temperate fashion, and
13 55|     explains things, sets out the meaning, clears up obscurities,
14 56|    together texts made to fit the meaning they want. One would almost
15 56|         fine thing to pervert the meaning of the text and compel the
16 56|  reluctant Scripture to yield the meaning one wants![105]~