this broken consent is not an infallible testimony of the catholicism of the doctrine

Indeed as DeMille in 1956 filmed the Decalogue, God inscribes each commandment literally with a bolt of lightning. Because the film functions to read the signs of the times, the practice here invokes ceraunomancy (divination by lightning).

Far from restricting or confining meaning, Pearl's elaborate form allows the fullest play of its punnology

Downsloping creates an environment that is far less conducive to thunderstorms[…]