something mysterious or allegorical. Some of the commentators on the sacred writings, besides a literal, discover also a mystical meaning. The sense of Scripture, say they, is either that immediately signified by the words and expressions in the common use of language; or it is mediate, sublime, typical, and mystical. The literal sense they again divide into properly literal, which is contained in the words taken simply and properly; and metaphorically literal, where the words are to be taken in a figurative and metaphorical sense. The mystical sense of Scripture they divide into three kinds; the first corresponding to faith, and called allegorical; the second to hope, called anagogical; and the third to charity, called the tropological sense. And sometimes they take the same word in Scripture in all the four senses. Thus the word Jerusalem literally signifies the capital of Judaea; allegorically, the church militant; tropologically, a believer; and anagogically, heaven. So, the passage in Genesis, "Let there be light, and there was light," literally signifies corporeal light; by an allegory, the Messiah; in the tropological sense, grace; and anagogically, beatitude, or the light of glory.