  The fifth cause of contradictory writing is related by Maimonides to “the necessity of teaching and making someone understand” (G Intro, P 17-18), whereas the seventh is related to the necessity of “conceal[ing] some parts” and “disclos[ing] others” when it comes to treating “very obscure matters ” (G Intro, P 17).  And while he does not cite the third cause as one of his own strategies of writing, he does cite it as a principle at play in the prophetic Scriptures; returning us again to the idea of “external” vs. “internal” senses, this is the case in which,