{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/102/1020747.htm","path":"chr/ecf/102/1020747.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/102/1020747.htm","text":"Chapter 10.\u2014Unknown or Ambiguous Signs Prevent Scripture from Being Understood.\n15. Now there are two causes which prevent what is written from being understood: its being vailed either under unknown, or under ambiguous signs. Signs are either proper or figurative. They are called proper when they are used to point out the objects they were designed to point out, as we say bos when we mean an ox, because all men who with us use the Latin tongue call it by this name. Signs are figurative when the things themselves which we indicate by the proper names are used to signify something else, as we say bos, and understand by that syllable the ox, which is ordinarily called by that name; but then further by that ox understand a preacher of the gospel, as Scripture signifies, according to the apostle\u2019s explanation, when it says: \u201cThou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.\u201d 1773\nBovem triturantem non infrenabis.\u20141 Cor. 9.9.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II: On Christian Doc...","type":"page"}