FM>                                            Philo and the "fathers" of the
FM>Christian religion indulged in allegoreses as a method of attempting to
FM>understand the stage of the myth reached in Judaism by subjecting the myth
FM>even in is transition from the "old" cosmic polytheism to a more
FM>differentiated cosmogony in Genesis to an allegorizing explanation 
mistakenly
FM>thought to be a bit more "scientific" by usage of a language of 
rationalism.
FM>The endeavor had to fail in the end because subjecting even an old myth 
with
FM>some of the substance of the truth it still contains to a rationalistic
FM>allegorical interpretation destroys even the kernel of the truth of 
reality i
FM>sets forth in pristine form.
A good example comes to mind in some of the new 'plain language'
trnslations of the Bible.  In the old KJV, Jesus is made to say
something like "When thine eye be single, thy whole body will
be full of light."
But in one of the newer editions (which I don't have so I can't
quote), it sez something like "If you can see clearly, everything
will something something."
I think they missed it on that one....
And what intrigues me is, what if Jesus was _not_ using a metaphor
there, but speaking literally?  
 * SLMR 2.1a *     Smiley captioned for the irony impaired.
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