In appropriate cases the interpreter is free to seek out what sound elements there are in “the Method of Form-history,” and these he can duly make use of to gain a fuller understanding of the Gospels. He must be circumspect in doing so, however, because the method in ques- tion is often found alloyed with principles of a philosophical or theological nature which are quite inadmissible, and which not infrequently vitiate both the method itself and the conclusions arrived at regarding literary questions. For certain exponents of this method, led astray by rationalistic prejudices, refuse to admit that there exists a supernatural order, or that a personal God intervenes in the world by revelation properly so called, or that miracles and prophecies are possible and have actually occurred.