von Rad observes the problems of scientific theories of language when encountering these words in poetic contexts: Obviously one would not arrive at this form of speech if one insisted on taking the words, at all costs, in accordance with their various shades of meaning. A differentiation in meaning certainly comes into play, but one must also take into consideration a certain ceremonial quality in the speech, a circumstantiality in speech which has become game. If one asks what emerges from this