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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Multiple Interpretations
Jerome, Tractates on Psalms 96.1 (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. 78, part 2, p. 157; my translation):
For it does no harm if we should understand the same thing in two or three ways.
non enim nocet, si eandem rem duobus et tribus modis intellegamus.