W. Is the explanation a revelation?
C. It is an explanation of dark passages in the Bible.
W. Well, is an explanation of dark passages in the Bible, a revelation from God?
C. No; but it is essential to mind, in order to be saved.
W. Is that essential to mind which does not agree with itself, and contradicts what is revealed?
C. A correct explanation is consistent, and does not contradict itself, or the Bible.
W. But hast thou not contradicted the Bible, and dost thou not recommend an explanation which expressly takes away the whole force of a divine prohibition?
C. No; it gives it a different meaning, that is all.
W. True; and that is what thou art forbidden to do.
C. I will not submit my judgment to the control of infidels. I see that thou wilt persist to aid infidelity.