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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.
Job 9.34. Let him take his Rod away from me. Psal. 89.32. I will visit their Transgression with a Rod. Mic. 6.9. — Hear ye the Rod, &c.
THE Rod hath divers Acceptations:
1. The Word [Greek or Hebrew] Shabat, is taken sometimes strictly, for a Bough or Sprig growing from the Stock of a Tree, because a Rod or Staff is made of a Bough of a Tree.
1. The Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Shabat, is taken sometimes strictly, for a Bough or Sprig growing from the Stock of a Tree, because a Rod or Staff is made of a Bough of a Tree.
2. It signifies a Sceptre, the Sceptre of a King, an Emblem of Power, &c. And because in ancient Times, (as the Learned observe) they were wont to make Sceptres of such Rods, and all Sceptres have the Form or Shape of a Rod; therefore the Original expresses the Rod and the Sceptre by the same Word.