I do not pause to explain the other passages from Scripture that taken literally favor secondary causes, for one is not obliged, and it is even dangerous to take literally expressions that are based on the ordinary judgments according to which language is formed; since the ordinary man speaks of all things according to the impressions of the senses and the prejudices of youth, the mind of God often accommodates itself to their weakness in order to instruct the simple as well as more enlightened people.