book in all of history, however, has a “spiritual sense”: the Bible, because only in the Bible do we find that the very realities and events signified by the words have themselves a deeper meaning, a meaning signified by God himself in his plan of salvation. Only God can write a love story with realities and events. He wrote that love story in his plan of salvation, and told it in the Bible. The distinction between the meaning of the text and the meaning of the realities and events can probably best