and people of God, become proper representatives of spiritual and religious things. Again, when the symbol selected is that of a living, active, intelligent agent it represents an analogous intelligent agent. Likewise, the actions of the former plainly denote analogous actions in the latter, and the effects produced by the actions of the symbolic agent signify analogous effects produced by the actions of the agent symbolized. To make it clearer: agents symbolize agents, actions symbolize actions, and