If in the meditative reading of every passage of Scripture the imaginative tendency of some minds is to be watched, so likewise is the literal or exact method of others. It was an error of too much exactness of interpretation to say, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” because Jesus had been speaking of eating His flesh and drinking His blood; and it was an error of too much liberty in interpretation to say, “That disciple should not die,” because Jesus had said, “ If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?”
J. G. B.