Hyperbole is when more is said than is literally meant. Now we have to pause here to give a note of caution. When you are teaching in the church, you always have to be careful when you say there’s hyperbole in the Bible, and there’s a reason for that. A one word definition of hyperbole is “exaggeration.” For most of you, you probably heard at one time or another, your mother saying, “Don’t exaggerate because exaggerating is lying.” We hear our mothers saying, “Exaggerating is lying.” If you say there’s