Meanwhile there is current among glossators the notion, derived from Roman law, that the price or the emperor acts for the Roman people, stands in their place , looks after their welfare. In the thirteenth century the canonists begin to adopt this idea, to sharpen and develop it and apply it to religious communal life. Neither the glossators nor the canonists yet use the word “representation” in developing these Roman law ideas; but the parallel with allegorical church thought is close enough so that, by the middle of the thirteenth century, a writer familiar with both disciplines can are argue that the magistrate represents the image of the whole state. Here representation of an allegorical or imagic kind is applied to a secular magistrate.