Medieval Exegesis (600-1500 AD) pg 55

• The balderdash of the 'Fourfold Sense' of Scripture articulated by Augustine brings in the Dark Ages

• The letter shows us what God and our fathers did;
• Jerusalem refers to the historical city
• The allegory shows us where our faith is hid;
• Jerusalem refers to the church of Christ
• The moral meaning gives us rules of daily life;
• Jerusalem refers to the human soul
• The anagogy shows us where we end our strife
• Jerusalem refers to the heavenly Jerusalem to come.

• Any (and all) interpretations must conform to the tradition and doctrine of the wHolly Roman Church.

• The Spanish Jews of the 12th -15th centuries sparked a return to the grammatical-historical method of interpretation. (Baptists, then called by other names, never left it)

• Nicolas of Lyra (1270-1340 AD) urged greater dependence on the literal than the other three, especially for doctrine, independent of Church teaching.