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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.
6. Exaltation 1and Extenuation. Rab. Kimhi in his Comment on Jer. 22.23. says, that the Interrogative Particle [Greek or Hebrew] (quid vel quam, what, or how,) is used in a double Signification, viz. to exalt a thing, as Psal. 31.19. O how great is thy Goodness? Psal. 139.17. How precious also are thy Thoughts unto me, O God? Or to extenuate a thing, as Psal. 8.4. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? that is, how inconsiderable, and unworthy is he of thy Grace and Favour? So Psal. 144.3. See also Isa. 2.11, to 22. with Psal. 146.3, 4. 1 Sam. 9.21. 2 Sam. 7.18. Gen. 23.15. Exod. 3.11. 1 Kings 9.13, &c.
6. Exaltation 1and Extenuation. Rab. Kimhi in his Comment on Jer. 22.23. says, that the Interrogative Particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (quid vel quam, what, or how,) is used in a double Signification, viz. to exalt a thing, as