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  • But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

    J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing