AETIOLOGY [or the Thing] is, when the proposition of a sen- tence is not enunciated simply, but the reason and the cause of it are at the same time brought forward; which is done either explicitly , or else by implication. — 2 Cor., xi. 13, oi yap roiouroi -v^g vdavoffroXoi — — This is the Aetiology, or expression of the reason why lie is unwill- ing that those teachers should be thought like himself. Gnom. on this passage. — Rom. xiii. 1, vratfa ei^ovG/oug b^zps^ovGaig brroraGGsGGu.
An Aetiology by implication ; viz., because they are b^sp's^ovcai. The Gnom. on this passage. Germ. Weil sie souverain sind. — 1 Thess. lv. 6, ro (JjY\ brrzpfiuivsiv xai n'keovzxre/v sv r& GTpdy/xan rov ade\<pbv abrov, dion g xdixog 6 K vpiog rrspi Kavruv rovrwv. There is here to be observed a double Atiology ; 1) one by implication , rov ddsXfov abrcb, viz. because he is his brother, adeXpog- 2) an explicit Aetiology ; dion sxdixog o K vpiog. Comp, the Gnom. on this passage.
Aetiology of an expression is, when we assign a reason why we have used this or that particular proposition or enunciation ; as, — Gal. ii. 6, 1[Jj0i yap oi donobvrsg ovdzv rrpoGctvzfovro. Comp. 2 Cor. V. 12 ; Heb. ii. 8, where the Gnomon observes, u y&p, for , often has the effect of an ACtiology of the expression.” See Gnom. on the pas- sages.
ALLEGORY is compounded of dXkog , and ayop'su , 1 speak: so that Allegory is when one thing is said , whilst another thing rather is meant. See Gnom. on Gal. iv. 24.
Allegory is defined, that it is the continuation of the same Trope
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