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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.
When that which was before obscurely delivered, is in the same Sentence more clearly expounded, they call it [Greek or Hebrew], Hermeneia, which signifies Interpretation; Isa. 1.22, 23, &c.
When that which was before obscurely delivered, is in the same Sentence more clearly expounded, they call it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Hermeneia, which signifies Interpretation; Isa. 1.22, 23, &c.
[Greek or Hebrew], Periphrasis, Circumlocution; is, when a thing is pronounced or described with many Words. Some say that the Reason of this, is, because Truth may be proposed more splendidly, or that which is unseemly may be avoided. Some Interpreters say, That the Phrase Gen. 20.16.1 To be a covering of the Wives Eyes, is a Periphrasis of a Husband, because she was really his Wife, and because it was his Duty to protect her (hence it is said Ruth 3.9. Spread thy Skirt over thine Handmaid; that is, receive me into thy Protection in a way of Marriage) then from the Duty of the Wife, who is to reverence and obey her Husband; for the Women were to be veiled, to betoken Subjection, Gen. 24.65. 1 Cor. 11.5, &c. The entire words of Abimeleck to Sarah, Gen. 20.16. runs thus, Behold, I have given thy Brother a thousand pieces of Silver: Behold, he is to thee a covering of the Eyes unto all that are with thee, and with all other, and be thou advised, (so the Hebrew) as if he had said, Thou didst tell me Abraham was thy Brother, to whom (so falsely represented) I have given a present of a thousand pieces Silver, for a Recompense of what he suffered—. But he is thy Husband, not thy Brother, and is so acknowledged by all thy Family: Therefore let him be so known to all Strangers, and let this Passage forewarn you, by which you have wilfully put your self in hazard, and dissemble no more that way, &c. So a parting or double way is called the Door of Eyes in the Hebrew,