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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.
[Greek or Hebrew], Antistrophe, Inversion, is, when we retort any thing proposed as granted into the contrary. It is also called [Greek or Hebrew], violent: We have an Example in the Answer of Christ to the Woman of Canaan; Mat. 15.26, 27. which bears this Sense,— Because thou art a Dog (says Christ) the Children's Bread must not be thrown to thee,— Yea but (says she) because I am a Dog, you ought not to deny me the Crumbs which fall from the Table, &c.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Antistrophe, Inversion, is, when we retort any thing proposed as granted into the contrary. It is also called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, violent: We have an Example in the Answer of Christ to the Woman of Canaan; Mat. 15.26, 27. which bears this Sence,— Because thou art a Dog (says Christ) the Children's Bread must not be thrown to thee,— Yea but (says she) because I am a Dog, you ought not to deny me the Crumbs which fall from the Table, &c.
[Greek or Hebrew], Oxymaron, signifies one that is wittily foolish, and is,1 when Contraries are acutely joined, which seem at first sight to be non-sense, but upon better view to be Elegant; as Job 22.6. To strip the naked of their Clothing. Now the naked have no Clothes, and so cannot be stripped,— so that naked by a Synecdoche, signifies to be ill habited. Jer. 21.19. He shall be buried with the Burial of an Ass: that is, with an unburied Burial, viz. not at all: See 2 Chron. 36.6. and Josephus Lib. 10. Ant. Cap. 8.