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  2. Dec 11, 2007 · There are two basic senses of Holy Scripture: the literal (or historical) and the spiritual. The spiritual sense is further divided into the allegorical, the tropological (or moral), and the anagogical.

  3. The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical. In Kabbalah the four meanings of the biblical texts are literal, allusive, allegorical, and mystical.

  4. The fourfold senses of Scripture—the literal, allegorical, moral (tropological), and anagogic senses—were first proposed by John Cassian (ca. 360-435). By way of example, Cassian wrote, “The one Jerusalem can be understood in four different ways, in the historical sense as the city of the

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  5. Aug 24, 2021 · Of course, a lot of Scripture’s moral teaching is straightforward and didactic: You shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not commit adultery, love your neighbor as yourself, love your enemy, give drink to the thirsty, etc. But that is not what is meant by the Moral Sense of Scripture.

  6. May 1, 2004 · The Catechism singles out the moral sense as one of the three traditional subdivisions of the spiritual sense and notes that “the events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written ‘for our instruction’” (ibid., cf. 1 Cor. 10:11).

  7. Aug 9, 2006 · Scripture is replete with examples of straightforward natural law such as “You shall not kill” and “You shall not commit adultery.”. In addition, it has moral teaching which is not merely natural but supernatural, such as the command to love not simply friends, but enemies as well.

  8. Dec 10, 2020 · Together with the literal and moral senses, these form the fourfold sense of Scripture you allude to in your question: the narrative, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses. Narrative (Literal/Historical) Sense The narrative sense is the literal surface sense of the text.

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