same connection, the mere citation of a sense is not a midrash. A case of

position contributes something by way of understanding to the text cited is the composition midrash. In the text of Scripture in a specific n interpretation of the original text has taken place in the mind of the author, but the composi- tion that he writes does not interpret it and therefore the composition is not midrashic. Just as context is a determining factor of literary form in the parable and allegory, so also with midrash. A midrash is always explicitly