Fr. Damasus’s way of writing about the Scriptures is nothing else than the traditional monastic way of “meditation”: . . . careful study of the literal sense, the discovery therein of a content hidden because spiritual, and the desire of accomplishing it. . . . Throughout this book one will find this way of reading the Bible in the light of the fathers in the liturgy, without neglecting history and all that provides a solid basis for an objective spiritual interpretation.