Church history and its interaction with the Word-Copernicus. The pendulum of emotions vs. intellect in Church History. The various 'mood swings' in the history of the faith have produced both aberrances and brought forth beautiful nuances of God's truth. Suspension of judgment models on difficult passages. Semantic levels in his word in history, and probably in written revelation.
Translators endeavor to preserve the deliberate ambiguity in translation, to avoid 'diluting' it.
The prophets realized both the concreteness of their message for their day, and the ambiguity of the prophetic picture - they searched the spirit of Christ within them. The time gap between NT events and records is too small for large content errors.