It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth — whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from what its bare words signify. Hence in expounding the Bible if one were always to confine oneself to the unadorned grammatical meaning, one might fall into error. Not only contradictions and propositions far from true might thus be made to appear in the Bible, but even grave heresies and follies.

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, polymath

Letter (1651) to Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany [tr. Drake (1957)]
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Making the case that people using Bible passages to claim his heleocentric model was wrong and heretical were not to be trusted.