He also wrote a poetic paraphrase of The Gospel of John. What follows is a close paraphrase of Ptolemy's own words from Toomer's translation. Having heard, the listener may then paraphrase the speaker's words. The ancient Greeks distinguished between "metaphrase" (literal translation) and "paraphrase". The words are a paraphrase of Psalm 46. The paraphrase is Watts' Christological interpretation. Often the students paraphrase famous mathematicians such as Cauchy, as noted in Lakatos's extensive footnotes. I would paraphrase it for them and give them the thought. Nowadays, there are some models to learn and recognize paraphrase on natural language texts. A paraphrase is typically more detailed than a summary. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase of Shakespeare's actual language. Hicks used Penn and the Native Americans to paraphrase Isaiah's prophecy, in full. The ASV was also the basis for Kenneth N. Taylor's Bible paraphrase, . And sometimes a "Spectator" paper is inserted bodily, with no attempt at paraphrase whatever. A prescriptivist might paraphrase "X is good" as "Do X!".