Scripture Does Not Explain Things By Their Secondary Causes, But Only Narrates Them In The Order And Style Which Has Most Power To Move Men, And Especially Uneducated Men, To Devotions.

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Scripture does not explain things by their secondary causes,
but only narrates them in the order and style which has most power
to move men, and especially uneducated men, to devotions....
Its object is not to convince the reason, but to attract and lay hold
of the imagination.
-- Spinoza

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