It was with the same purpose that he turned next to the early Fathers and to the writer called Dionysius the Areopagite.

But he did not find himself until he found the Bible.

In 1509 he published the _Quintuplex Psalterium_, the first treatise on the Psalms in which the philological and personal interest was uppermost.

Hitherto it had not been the Bible that had been studied so much as the commentaries on it, a dry wilderness of arid and futile subtlety.

Lefevre tried to see simply what the text said, and as it became more human it became, for him, more divine.