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ALL Scriptures which are the true Word of God have
a dual interpretation, the intellectual and the intuitional, the apparent and
the hidden.
2. For
nothing can come forth from God save that which is fruitful.
3. As is the nature of God, so is the
Word of God’s mouth.
4. The letter alone is barren; the
spirit and the letter give life.
5. But that Scripture is the more
excellent which is exceeding fruitful and brings forth
abundant signification.
6. For God is able to say many things
in one, as the perfect ovary contains many seeds in its
chalice.7. Therefore there are in the
Scriptures of God’s Word certain writings, which, as richly yielding trees, bear
more abundantly than others in the self-same holy garden.
8. And one of the most excellent is
the history of the generation of the heavens and the earth.
9. For therein is contained in order
a genealogy, which has four heads, as a stream divided into four branches, a
word exceeding rich.
10. And the first of these
generations is that of the Gods.
11. The second is that of the kingdom
of heaven.
12. The third is that of the visible
world.
13. And the fourth is that of the
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