singularly inspired. Augustine’s exegetical principles are enumerated in his work On Christian Doctrine. In that work it is clear that he held the literal and historical sense of a biblical passage in high regard; yet, it is not enough. The Bible has more than one meaning, and the allegorical method is a way of clarifying the obscure. During the Middle Ages, most biblical study was isolated in monasteries. Strident allegory was the dominant interpretive method of the time. A fourfold sense to Scripture