Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

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Neophilus. But one cannot deny that the similarities he discovers are often strikingly astonishing.

Sophron. But who would accept such proofs, derived from painstakingly sought, often entirely forced similarities, as long as sound reason has not surrendered all its rights to wit? Our robust typologists interpreters of biblical figures as symbols actually often had even stronger grounds for similarity when they saw, in the history of Joseph or Daniel and others, nothing but symbols of the life, the suffering, the death, and the resurrection of Christ.

Neophilus. Well, even if one does not accept all of this as strict proof.

Sophron. Forgive me, friend, for interrupting you: I should think that if the public had the right to demand strict proof anywhere, it would be in a book that, in a matter as highly important as
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