 The compiler’s use of "testimonia" and "exempla" to prove a rule sometimes led him to take a ‘dialectical’ approach to legal questions, in which he would present opposing rules on a single topic and attempt some sort of crude reconciliation, though usually this reconciliation is only ever implied.For some scholars, this has qualified "Hib" as something of a "summa discordantium".The exegetical and essaic qualities of "Hib" were signalled by Gabriel le Bras when he argued that "Hib" is ‘more than a canonical collection, but a repository of scriptural and patristic texts on discipline, which the author accepted as the principal sources of the law.