Four senses of Scripture

Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel).

In Christianity, the four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. The four senses are literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical. The method was developed in Late Antiquity, and was especially popular in the Western church during the Middle Ages.

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