9. Concerning the modes of the Scriptures.

D. How many modes of divine Scripture are there? M. Two, for either they are written in Hebrew meters in their own tongue or in plain prose. D. What things have been written in meters? M. For example, the Psalms, and the history of Job, and Ecclesiastes, and certain things in the Prophets. D. What things have been written in plain prose? M. All the rest.

[2] D. Why among us have they not been written in the same meters? M. Because no discourse preserves the meter in another language, unless it changes the meaning and arrangement of the words.