The article dwells on the symbolic, metaphorical features of the social contract in Hobbes' terms, and on the possible reasons why his works are full of crucial references to the Holy Scriptures. His reducing both politics and religion to a mere anthropological and utilitarian ground is not simply surprising but also philosophically and theologically disquieting. Hobbes exploits the de facto, mutual intersecting between the civil dimension and the religious one in order to strengthen the stability of the State, meant as a secular State devoid of any laicism.