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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.
1As to the external Form, or the kind of speaking, or the manner of Citation, the following things are observable. (1.) The frequent Quotation of the Septuagint, or the ancient Greek Translation of the Old Testament, of which, as Hierom notes,* Hoc generaliter observandum, quod ubicunque sancti Apostoli aut Apostolici viri loquantur ad Populos his plerumque Testimoniis abutuntur, quae (per Translationem Septuagint. Interpretum) jam fuerant in Gentibus divulgatae; that is, This is to be generally noted, that wheresoever the holy Apostles or Apostolical Men spoke to the People, they did for the most part use these Testimonies, which (that is, the Translation of the Seventy Interpreters) were now published to the Gentiles. And that even in those things where there is a manifest difference between that Translation and the Original Hebrew Text, as Luke 3.36. wherein, the Genealogy of Christ, the Name Cainan is put in which is not in the Original Hebrew, but in the version of the Seventy, of which more hereafter.
- 12. As to the exernal Form.
- *In quest Heb. super Gen. To. 4. fol. 102.