What interpretive caution applies to “bal yadāhu mabsūṭatān”?

Refuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and Likeness

• Identifying textual affirmation with proof of a particular physical manner
• Treating the wording as unauthentic because a figurative sense is possible
• Taking “hand” to mean a physical limb while leaving only its mode unknown
• Separating acceptance of the text from an asserted creaturely limb