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Literalize   Listen
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Literalize  v. t.  (past & past part. literalized; pres. part. literalizing)  To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.





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"Literalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the effect that we literalize these scriptures which are intended to be metaphorical and spiritual. To this we reply: While the exact phrase, "resurrection of the body," does not occur in the Bible, yet these scriptures clearly teach a physical rather than a spiritual resurrection. Indeed John 5:25-29 ...
— The Great Doctrines of the Bible • Rev. William Evans


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