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Abu Hanifa was accustomed in certain cases to take the words of the Qur'an not in their literal, but in a symbolic sense. Anan adopted a similar method with the Hebrew text of the Bible. Illustrations of this method are not infrequently, indeed, afforded by the Talmud itself. Thus he interpreted the prohibition of plowing on the Sabbath (Ex. xxxiv. 21) as applying to marital intercourse;

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