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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.
2. The Nature and Definition of a Parable.
Some say that a Parable is a continued Metaphor, or an Allegory of Words ([Greek or Hebrew],) which is a Continuation of Tropes, especially Metaphors; of this Mind is Azorius, Gillius, Morton; but this is not right, for several Reasons showed by the learned Glassius, p. 440. to which we refer. A Parable, according to Jerome, is a Comparison made of Things differing in Nature under a certain Similitude. Varinus describes it, [Greek or Hebrew]: i. e. A Parable is a Comparison, signifying a Similitude in order to explain, or make the Things treated of perspicuous.
SOme say that a Parable is a continued Metaphor, or an Allegory of Words (〈non-Latin alphabet〉,) which is a Continuation of Tropes, especially Metaphors; of this Mind is Azorius, Gillius, Morton; but this is not right, for several Reasons shewed by the learned Glassius, p. 440. to which we refer. A Parable, according to Jerome, is a Comparison made of Things differing in Nature under a certain Similitude. Varinus describes it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: i. e. A Parable is a Comparison, signifying a Similitude in order to explain, or make the Things treated of perspicuous.
We define or describe a Parable thus: A Parable is a Similitude or Comparison, by which some certain Affair or Thing is feigned, and told, as if it were really transacted,