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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.
13. Climax [Greek or Hebrew], Gradatio, or a climbing by steps; this is a continuation of the former Figure * in more degrees, so as that the last of the antecedent Sentence, must be a part of the following; as Hos. 2.21. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens, and they (that is the Heavens) shall hear the Earth, and the Earth shall hear the Corn, and the Wine, and the Oil, and they (that is, the Corn and the Wine, and the Oil) shall hear Jezreel. This Gradation may be fitly called an Epitome of Physical Theology, which by a fair Prosopopoeia enumerates all the Causes of the Conservation of Universal Nature, and particularly of Man: See it at large expounded in our Philologia Sacra, Book 1. p. 95.
13. Climax 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Gradatio, or a climbing by steps; this is a continuation of the former Figure * in more degrees, so as that the last of the antecedent Sentence, must be a part of the following; as Hos. 2.21. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the Heavens, and they (that is the Heavens) shall hear the Earth, and the Earth shall hear the Corn, and the Wine, and the Oil, and they (that is, the Corn and the Wine, and the Oil) shall hear Jezreel. This Gradation may be fitly called an Epitome of Physical Theology, which by a fair Prosopopaeia enumerates all the Causes of the Conservation of Universal Nature, and particularly of Man: See it at large expounded in our Philologia Sacra, Book 1. p. 95.
- 1Viz. Anadiplosis.