Hildegard of Bingen: Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions (Biblia.com)

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Perhaps the least studied of Hildegard of Bingen’s writings, Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions is translated in this volume into English for the first time from the original Latin. In this work of exegesis, Hildegard (1098–1179) resolves thorny passages of Scripture, theological questions, and two issues in hagiographic texts. Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions joins Hildegard’s Homilies on...

of parables. Parables prove necessary because the serpent caused humans to lose their spiritual vision. Consequently, the divine mysteries are not to be seen except as one sees one’s face in a mirror: “Those conceived in sin cannot grasp words of life other than in parables.”83 Furthermore, Hildegard the teacher (magistra) explains God’s method of pedagogy, that “God set parables and metaphors before humankind, through which, usually, they are taught the way to salvation better than through the naked

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