exegetics

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I leave this discussion to the exegetists of the profession.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules

Also the great Fathers of the Church, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine will be found useful, but not the large crowd of subsequent exegetists.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Like Hamlet, Tartuffe, Don Quixote, Falstaff has had his worshippers and his exegetists.

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel

But the true poetry of the Bible, which escaped the puerile exegetists of Jerusalem, was fully revealed to his grand genius.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

His course, bold even to the point of rashness in the eyes of the traditionalist exegetists, was at length suspended.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various