Paraphrasis in Dionysium Areopagitam

exact contemplation, by no means. For that [promise] of Jacob has been fulfilled through the domination of those from him and the ascent to Christ, just as the promises to Abraham concerning the possession of the land and the blessing of the nations. And those things [spoken] to David are referred only as they relate to Christ. Similarly, the things concerning Solomon that seem to have been spoken in the Psalms were perfected in Christ. Therefore, he called those explanatory fulfillments in types, which possess variety, "manifold sophistries"—not as if they were artfully contriving to deceive the truth, but as clearly unfolding the thing sought.

Again, the battle of the giants and the building of the tower, as it is carried in Genesis; and the council concerning Ahab, as it is found in the third [book] of Kings, in which the divine Scripture discusses how Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, joined with the king of Israel, Ahab. And the king of Israel said to the king of Judah, "Will you go up with us to war to Ramoth-Gilead?" And Jehoshaphat said, "As I am, so are you; as my people, so your people; as my horses, so your horses." And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire today of the Lord." And the king of Israel gathered all the prophets, about four hundred. And the king of Israel said to the prophets, "If I go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or shall I refrain?" They said, "Go up, and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king." And Jehoshaphat said to Ahab, "Is there not a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord through him?" And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man to inquire of the Lord through him, but I hate him, for he does not speak good to me, but evil: Micaiah the son of Imlah." And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, said, "Let not the king say so." And...