B25425:2003
TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
False Teachers compared to Wolves.
Acts 20.29. I know, that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you, not sparing the Flock, &c.
A Wolf is in Hebrew Zeeb, Gen. 49. in Chaldee, Deeba, and Deba; the Arabians call him Zebab; the Greeks, Lycos, and Lagos, and Lycania; and Lycos, among some of the Arabian Writers, is borrowed from them, as Munster hath noted in his Lexicon of three Languages: The Italians call it Lupo; in French, Loup; in Spain, Lobo; in Germany, Valff; in English, Wolf.
The common Epithets of this Beast, amongst several Authors, are these, Sour, 1wild, fierce, bold, greedy, wary, swift, bloody, hard, degenerate, gluttonous, hungry, flesh-eater, famishing, harmful, cruel, furious, insatiable, treacherous, martial, ravenous, nightly, &c.
The common Epithets of this Beast, amongst several Authors, are these, Sowre,