The Christian quadriga traces from Origen's allegory and Cassian's threefold scheme to Augustine of Denmark's couplet and Aquinas's defense of it. A structurally similar four level scheme grew up inside a separate textual tradition this atlas also records, PaRDeS, and the resemblance between them is a coincidence of structure rather than a case of one system borrowing from the other.
PaRDeS organizes Jewish scriptural reading into peshat, the plain sense, remez, an implied or allegorical hint, derash, a homiletical or applied sense developed through midrashic reading, and sod, a hidden or mystical sense, the initial letters of the four terms spelling the Hebrew word for orchard. Like the Christian quadriga, it moves from a literal ground floor toward a final sense concerned with ultimate or hidden meaning, and like the quadriga it developed gradually out of older interpretive habits before being fixed into this exact four term shape by later writers rather than appearing whole from the start.
The two schemes never borrowed from each other. Christian exegesis built its four senses out of Origen's allegorical method and the Latin monastic tradition that followed him; PaRDeS grew out of centuries of independent rabbinic and later kabbalistic reading practice, its own third term, derash, naming the specifically midrashic mode of interpretation this atlas records on its own page. Two textual communities reading two different scriptures reached, without contact, the same basic architecture, letter, hint, application, mystery, evidence less of influence than of how many readers independently expect scripture to hold more than one kind of meaning at once.