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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.
Rivet says thus* They (viz. the holy Pen-men of the New Testament) followed this Interpretation in those things only, which did no way prejudice the Truth of Faith, especially when they had occasion to discourse of any dangerous departure from that very version received among the Greeks; or, as he adds, The Apostles and Apostolical Men used that common Version by a Liberty no way dangerous, to win upon the Greeks or Gentiles, who had great Veneration for it, tho not in every part perfect. Yet we must carefully note, that the Apostles did not always quote the Septuagint, as by the comparing of divers places may appear; as Esa. 25.8. for the Hebrew word there,2 which signifies in sempiternum, for everlasting, the Septuagint has it [Greek or Hebrew], prevailing or overcoming; but St. Paul translates it [Greek or Hebrew], in Victory: Matthew and John, as Jerome witnesses in his Comment on Esa. 6. made their Quotations from the Hebrew, whereas Luke was very skilful in the Art of Medicine, and better read in Greek; therefore his Stile is elegant both in his Gospel, and in the Acts of the Apostles, savouring more than they of human Eloquence, and more using Greek than Hebrew Citations. Examples from John and Matthew are Zech. 12.10. which the Septuagint renders [Greek or Hebrew], They will look upon me, because they have insulted (for [Greek or Hebrew] transfixed or pierced) but John 19.37. cites it out of the Hebrew, [Greek or Hebrew], They shall see him whom they pierced: compare the Version of the Seventy, Hos. 11.1. with Mat. 2.15. Mic. 5.1. with Mat. 2.6.