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But in regard to this kind of language, which is so frequent in the Scriptures and in religious discourse, we must remember that the language is more or less figurative ; and then we must determine the sense of the figure, and the extent of the analogy implied, by the nature of the subject, and by all the instructions which the Scriptures give concerning it. Proceeding in this manner, as we do in all other instances of figurative language, we shall easily avoid the difficulties and mistakes which have been
Leonard Woods, “Lectures,” in The Works of Leonard Woods , (Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1851), 2: 475-476. [Italics original and underlining mine.]