figuratively when… • it is obviously figurative, as when Jesus said He is the door ( John 10:9); • the text itself authorizes the figurative sense, as when Paul said he was interpreting Scripture allegorically (Galatians 4:24); or • when a literal interpretation would contradict other truths inside or outside the Bible, such as when the Bible speaks of the “four corners of the earth” (Revelation 7:1). Bible expositor David Cooper suggests that we ought to “take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual,