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 owing to lack 
 of power. 
  
 646. The Synagogue did not perish, because it was a type. But, because it 
 was only a type, it fell into servitude. The type existed till the truth 
 came, in order that the Church should be always visible, either in the sign 
 which promised it, or in substance. 
  
 647. That the law was figurative. 
  
 648. Two errors: 1. To take everything literally. 2. To take everything 
 spiritually. 
  
 649. To speak against too greatly figurative language. 
  
 650. There are some types clear and demonstrative, but others which seem 
 somewhat far-fetched, and which convince only those who are already 
 persuaded. These are like the Apocalyptics. But the difference is that they 
 have none which are certain, so that nothing is so unjust as to claim that 
 theirs are as well founded as some of ours; for they have none so 
 demonstrative as some of ours. The comparison is unfair. We must not put on 
 the same level and confound things, because they seem to agree in one point, 
 while they are so different in another. The clearness in divine things 
 requires us to revere the obscurities in them. 
  
 It is like men, who employ a certain obscure language among themselves. 
 Those who should not understand it would understand only a foolish meaning. 
  
 651. Extravagances of the Apocalyptics, Preadamites, who would base 
 extravagant opinions on Sc 
  
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