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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.
There is sometimes a change of the words themselves, 1and sometimes of their Accidents: The change of words themselves happens, (1.) From the diversity of reading in the Hebrew Text, especially when the Quotation is from the Septuagint; who having made use of Bibles not pointed, did frequently read and expound it otherwise then, 'tis in the Hebrew; Gen. 47.31. And Israel bowed himself upon the Head [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨p. 22⟩of the Bed (he worshipped or adored his Lord God, so as that he bowed his Body to his Beds-head) but the Septuagint have it [Greek or Hebrew],* And Israel worshipped upon the end or top of his Rod or Staff; for they read it as if it had been [Greek or Hebrew], which signifies a Rod or Staff, the difference being only in the Points. This Version the Apostle exactly follows, Heb. 11.21. And whereas there is a different reading even in the Greek, some Copies having [Greek or Hebrew], ejus, of his; some [Greek or Hebrew], suus, his: There arises a double Interpretation here, viz. That Jacob through Age being in Bed, leaned upon his Staff, and thanking God for the promise of a Sepulture with his Fathers; hence say some, it should be thus, Et inclinavit se Baculo suo innixus; And he bowed himself, leaning upon his Staff, or, that he bowed himself to the Sceptre which Joseph held, and honoured his Son in his Office; that that Dream might be fulfilled which Joseph had of the Obeisance of the Sun and Moon, mentioned Gen. 37.9. which the vulgar Version, and that of Erasmus will have rendered, And he adored, leaning on the top of his Rod, &c. Another Example you have Psal. 40.7. Mine Ears hast thou opened; of which Metaphor, see our sacred Philology, Book 1. Vol. 1. cap. 7. But the Septuagint render it [Greek or Hebrew], But a Body hast thou prepared for me; which Version the Apostle cites, Heb. 10.5