Senses Historicaf, Allegorical^ and Moral, IS using bodies,' which both illustrates the relative importance of the primary and secondary uses of Scripture, together with their connection, and also accounts for the same in some degree. All Scripture was held to be written, ' ab intus,'/rom //i€ inwardmystery, and not ' nb extra,' with a mystical sense put into it. In every case the historical account is the rind or coating, the mys- tical meaning the essence of Holy Scripture, not the former the essential truth, containing a mystical sense.