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De Natura Rerum, Chapter XLVIII, 2 (translation): So the earth may be divided into three sides (trifarie), of which one part is Europe, another Asia, and the third is called Africa. Europe is divided from Africa by a sea from the end of the ocean and the Pillars of Hercules. And Asia is divided from Libya with Egypt by the Nile...
These symbols derive from the Bible; for example from the tongues of fire [27] that symbolized the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and from Jesus' description of his followers as the light of the world; [28] or God is a consuming fire found in Hebrews 12. [29] Compare Jewish symbolism.
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The system of Medieval allegory began in the Early Church as a method for synthesizing the seeming discontinuities between the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament. The Church studied both testaments and saw each as equally inspired by God , yet the Old Testament contained discontinuities for Christians such as the Jewish kosher ...
ABP: Apostolic Bible Polyglot AC: Aleppo Codex BHS: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Brenton: Brenton's Septuagint Translation 1879 LC: Leningrad Codex LXX: Septuagint LXX Rahlfs: Rahlfs' Septuagint 1935 LXX Swete: Swete's Septuagint 1930 K: ketiv Kennicott x: Kennicott's Vetus Test. Hebraicum MAM: Miqra according to the Masorah m.: Mishna
Maxine Clarke Beach comments Paul's assertion in Galatians 4:21–31 that the Genesis story of Abraham's sons is an allegory, writing that "This allegorical interpretation has been one of the biblical texts used in the long history of Christian anti-Semitism, which its author could not have imagined or intended".