“This passage cannot have a literal meaning, otherwise it would be nonsense.”
Respectfully, (1) what then does it mean and (2) how is taking as an explicit assertion nonsense?
he likes to run to
..its an analogy
or
its a metaphor
regardless of what the technical requirements an idiom must meet to be a metaphor or analogy or parable or any other of the over 200 idioms in the english translations.
he just interchanges them to fit what ever violence to the text his ideology pride and stiff neck requires. its a common con man technique.