Literal Sense

French humanist Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, argued in his Quincuplex Psalterium of 1509. Lefèvre defined the “literal sense” as representing “the intention of the prophet and of the Holy Spirit speaking in him” or as the sense “that agrees with the Spirit and which the Holy Spirit shows forth.”1


Notes

1

Lefèvre d’Étaples, Quincuplex Psalterium, preface, as cited in Preus, From Shadow to Promise, p. 137 and p. 139, note 22.

 

Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 470.