It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.

值得注意的，韵文晦涩的时代也就散文粗劣的时代。

The Sefer Zohar or "Book of Splendour" is supposed to be the most authoritative Kabbalistic work, but this massive series of books is so obscure and symbolic as to be practically incom-prehensible.

Sefer《明篇》或“书”被期望为最权威的卡巴拉著作，但这大多系列的书这样晦涩和象征能理解。