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BILL_PICK53
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Can some one please tell me what verse in the Bible we are to take as a Symol and what one we are to take figrative,Chapter and verse please
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Poco
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Hmmm…? I’m not sure I understand your question correctly. In any case, it sounds like you may want to get a “Biblical Commentary”. I like the “New Jerome Biblical Commentary”, although I do need to keep a dictionary handy! If you search the threads here I’m sure you’ll find some other recommendations.
I don’t think it would be practical (let alone, authoritative) to go through the Holy Bible chapter and verse saying “this is literal”, “this is allegoric”, “this is symbolic” etc. on a forum such as this.
I don’t know if this answers your question but I hope it helps.
God bless!
I don’t think it would be practical (let alone, authoritative) to go through the Holy Bible chapter and verse saying “this is literal”, “this is allegoric”, “this is symbolic” etc. on a forum such as this.
I don’t know if this answers your question but I hope it helps.
God bless!
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Mark77
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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church;
**“In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.” (CCC 109)
"Be especially attentive “to the content and unity of the whole Scripture” (CCC 112)**
"The senses of Scripture;
115 **According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, **the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. The profound concordance of the four senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church.
116 The literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation: "All other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal."83
117 **The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God’s plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.
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119 "It is the task of exegetes to work, according to these rules, towards a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture in order that their research may help the Church to form a firmer judgment. For, of course, all that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately subject to the judgement of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred commission and ministry of watching over and interpreting the Word of God."88
Search the Catechism here; scborromeo.org/ccc.htm
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!
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**“In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.” (CCC 109)
"Be especially attentive “to the content and unity of the whole Scripture” (CCC 112)**
"The senses of Scripture;
115 **According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, **the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. The profound concordance of the four senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church.
116 The literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation: "All other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal."83
117 **The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God’s plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.
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- The allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ’s victory and also of Christian Baptism.84
- The moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written “for our instruction”.85
- The anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, “leading”). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.86
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**The Letter speaks of deeds; Allegory to faith;
The Moral how to act; Anagogy our destiny.**87
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**But I would not believe in the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church already moved me.89 (89 St. Augustine, Contra epistolam Manichaei, 5,6:PL 42,176)**Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!
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rev_kevin
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I believe what Bill is asking is from his other thread “I just must ask” post 101, when I asked this question: " Don’t Catholics take the Bible literally?"Hmmm…? I’m not sure I understand your question correctly. In any case, it sounds like you may want to get a “Biblical Commentary”. I like the “New Jerome Biblical Commentary”, although I do need to keep a dictionary handy! If you search the threads here I’m sure you’ll find some other recommendations.
I don’t think it would be practical (let alone, authoritative) to go through the Holy Bible chapter and verse saying “this is literal”, “this is allegoric”, “this is symbolic” etc. on a forum such as this.
I don’t know if this answers your question but I hope it helps.
God bless!
" What part of the Bible is figurative to Catholics?"
He answered back with a non-answer: “rev. Can you tell me what verses in the Bible tell us it is a symbol and what is figrative.”
This is about the “real presence of Christ in the Eucharist” should we take it literal or figrative.
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Padrej
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A good study Bible like the NKJV study Bible with the complete nelson study system is a good one to start with. But lets say you do not have one of those. If you look at a particular verse, lets say in the book of Revelation and it says something is “like” something else then you cannot take that verse literally. Take Revelation 9:Can some one please tell me what verse in the Bible we are to take as a Symol and what one we are to take figrative,Chapter and verse please
Notice how many times the word “like” appears in these verses. John could only describe these “creatures” in ways that they looked familiar to him. Take for example if you were to take George Washington forward in time and ask him to describe a plasma TV, how do you think he would do it? He would probably use words like, “It is like a painting where the picture moves and talks like the person is in the room.”7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
Other verses you can take literally. From John 11:
Even though Jesus is using a figurative type of language we know we can take this in a literal sense.25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
From Mark 15:
OK here we have a statement of fact that is backed up by eye witnesses. Mark’s Gospel goes further than Matthew and Luke in mentioning that Simon was “the father of Alexander and Rufus.” Why is that tidbit important? because in the Book of acts you find these two names again as leaders in the first century church, so something must have changed their father and them that day.21 Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross.
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