limits were exceeded as he applied a typological reading not only to biblical material but also to extra-biblical historical events and natural phenomena. He found, for example, “the great destruction of the heathen” in Constantine’s time to be a foreshadowing of a “vastly greater destruction of the wicked” in the future; similarly, he regarded the screams of an owl as a representation of the misery of devils dwelling in eternal darkness.8 The collective result of his exegesis is a scriptural organon
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