The same essential correspondence is even more direct between the Bible and the Bible reader. For in and through Scripture God has spoken, that is, communicated in words. One may perhaps say that if in nature God’s revelation is visualized, in Scripture it is verbalized, and in Christ it is both, for he is “the Word made flesh.” Now communication in words presupposes a mind which can understand and interpret them. For words are meaningless symbols until they are deciphered by an intelligent being.