Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian, which represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images.
But even in the Talmud the reign of Alexandra is described in apocalyptic language such as is commonly applied to the future age, and if allowance be made for the symbolism proper to revelations it is clear that essentially the scribe and the seer have the same purpose and even the same doctrines.
Symbolism הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד