Except for what has been explained by Bahá'u'lláh and
'Abdu'l-Bahá, we have no way of knowing what various symbolic allusions in the
Bible mean.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 31 January 1955 written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi to an individual believer; compilation on ‘The Bible: Extracts on the
Old and New Testaments’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal
House of Justice)
