Millennials Age" editorial coined the phrase "Generation Y" to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X. According to journalist Bruce Horovitz, in 2012, "Ad Age" "threw in the towel by conceding that millennials is a better name than Gen Y", and by 2014, a past director of data strategy at "Ad Age" said to NPR "the Generation Y label was a placeholder until we found out more about them". Millennials are sometimes called "Echo Boomers", due to their being the offspring of
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible Scriptural interpretation is sometimes referred to as the "Quadriga", a reference to the Roman chariot that was pulled by four horses abreast. The four horses are symbolic of the four submethods of Scriptural interpretation: A Latin rhyme designed to help scholars remember the four interpretations survives from the Middle Ages: The rhyme is roughly translated: The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did, The allegory is where our faith and belief is hid, The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life, The anagogy shows us where we end our strife. Origen, in his "Treatise on First Principles",