More truly and in the highest degree

Meaning

The main treatise says that the Stone's titles can be applied to God and his eternal Son much more truly and in the highest degree. These comparative and superlative qualifications govern the theological naming passage. They prevent a flat reading in which an earthly substance and Christ are simply interchangeable referents. The names are transferred and intensified within an argument about the heavenly cornerstone. The English “much more truly” makes that interpretive hierarchy explicit; the entry is a guide to the force of the phrase, not a newly coined historical technical term.