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HYPERBATON is the figure of speech used, when words are transposed contrary to their wonted or most natural order of con- struction : e.g. — Mark ix. 20, xa/ Y\vsyxuv uvrov (the boy) npbg ui iror (Jesus) xa/ idojv (the boy) uvrov (Jesus) svQ'sug rb nvsv/uu strnupu^sv uvrov (the boy) xa/' nsauv (the boy) ini r^jgyijg. The language is so trained, that either we must put idbv for Iduv [thus it might be referred to nvs D/xa], OR we must suppose a Transposition of the several members, which was the opinion of Bengel in the Gnom. See also ch. xvi. 1 ; 1 John ii. 24, 27. — Rev. xiii. 3, 8, and the Gnom. on the passages quoted. Comp, the Title Hypallage.
HYPERBOLE is, when the Writer is found to have said more, with a view to enlarging or diminishing a thing, than he intends to be understood. — John xii. 19, ids 6 xbcfjjog on/au uvrov unij/Jev. u An indignant Hyperbole.” Gnom. In the statements put forth by Jesus and His apostles there often seems to be an Hyperbole, where there is none : e.g. — Mark xvi. 15, nopsvdsvrsg sic rbv cinuvru,
xr,pv^urs rb svuyy'sXiov nuffyj rr\ xrltiei. — Luke vi. 23 ; 1 Cor. XV. 52. See Gnom. I should be sorry, however, to eliminate (banish) all Hyperboles out of the New Testament. For u they are proved to have place” [as Ernesti In. Rh. § 335, p. 165, rightly observes, and as we shall make evident by examples] — 1) If they possess, as it were, the force of proverbs ; and when this is so, nothing save what is excellent [or else unusual] is understood in any kind ; as, Matt. xxi. 13, v/xsTg ds uvrbv (olxov) enoirjffurs 6ny]Xuiov A'fiffruv. — John iii.
26, 32, xa/ nuvrsg spypvrui npbg uvrbv. — xa/ rr\v fiuprvpluv uvrov ovdslg \u/j,(3uvsi. 2) When the thing itself has exceeded its natural limit, so that the Hyperbole may seem to have arisen out of the facts ; as in Luke xviii. 5, ivu slg rsXog ipypiTsv^ vnuniuZri [is. u An Hyper- bole appropriate to the character of a judge who was unjust and im- patient.”— See Gnom. 3) When a more vehement feeling has gene- rated them, than which nothing is more effective towards softening every kind of harshness in tropes, and also in figures ; as, Heb. vii.
27, og ovx sysi xutf iyjj'spuv uvuyxr\v. See Gnom. — Ch. x. 1, 6vff!utg ug
• npofftpspovoiv slg rb dirivezsg . To this also may be referred those
phrases, John iii, 26, 32. — Comp. Kinderling’s Grundsatze der Beredsamkeit, § 138, p. 110.
HYPOTYPOSIS is, when a thing done is so expressed in words as to seem to be placed under one’s eyes ; as, — Heb. xii. 16, m ng rropvoCy rj (3e(37}\og ug ’H tfaD, og uvrl fipuasug [uug unsdoro ru npuroroxiu uvrov. u A graphic Hypotyposis of a profane mind.” See Gnom.
HYSTERON PROTERON is a species of Hyperbaton , when the one of two members is put in the former place, which seemed to require being put in the latter place. In the New Testament hardly, and scarcely even hardly, is there to be found a genuine
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