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is called bnoyopci) the latter, avdvff o<popa [Ernesti In. Rh. § 356, p. 174 ; Glassius’ Phil. S. L. Y. Tract. II. ch. vi. p. 2036] ; — for in- stance, 1 Cor. XV. 35, a\}’ epe? rig , <7 rug syzlpovrai oi vzy.poi ; rro'iu d'e cu/ian tpX'Qvrcu ; x.r.A. — By Synecdoche Anthypophora is also called Occupatio'; — for instance, in Acts ii. 23, rovrov rji wpiGfievy xai
npoyv&Gu rob <dzoZ txdorov \cij36vrzg Ch. x. 22, xiv. 16; James
iii. 17. See Gnom.
ORATIO SEMIDUPLEX.— See Title Semiduplex Oratio.
OXYMORON is, when contraries are acutely (cleverly) and wisely conjoined ; or when the same thing is acutely (cleverly) de- nied, as it were, regarding itself. — Acts v. 41, on vrrep too ovofiarog xar9)%/u>07j<rav an^ atrOqvat. u It is truly the height of dignity to be treated with indignity for Christ’s sake.” — Glassius’ Phil. S. L. Y. Tract. II. ch. 7, p. m. 2046. — Rom. i. 20, rd yap dopara abrob — xado parcel. See the Gnom. on this passage. — 1 Cor. ix. 17, it yap sxojv [i.e. gratis , without charge or wages ] roZro xpacGu, /xurOov {wages) zyo). See Gnom.
PARABOLA. — The Parable is a Discourse, which, in the form of a fiction, but one resembling a true story, taken from the things of everyday life, vividly represents unknown or moral Truths. It closely approaches to Allegory ; but differs from Fable, which is the narrative of something imaginary, such as has never happened, and is not possible, and therefore is not like a true his- tory. Therefore, that I may suggest this in passing, the noble character and province of Sacred Parables ought not to have been lowered to the petty notion of the latter (the Fable) by C. F. Barth, in his Germ. Yers. of the New Testament, entitled, die neueste Offenbarungen Gottes in Briefen und Erzahlungen , who for the most part lias followed Lowth in this respect [Academic Lec- tures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews, P. 1, Prael. x. p. 213]. The Parables of our gracious Lord, even in this respect, carry off the palm of superiority from other (not to say Fables, but even) Parables, in that the things which they represent are divine and spiritual, appertaining to the kingdom of God, its economy, and the salvation of souls. See e.g. — Matt. xiii. 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, etc., for it is not necessary to recount particular instances ; nor is there any oc- casion that I should quote passages of the Gnomon. But as yet there remains a suggestion which it seems well to make. Whereas a Tyre is a certain thing actually performed or done, not invented or imagined, whereby some other thing which is future is pre- figured, nor can the Parable be said not to differ from the Type, yet it is to be observed, that the Word, Parable , taken in a broader sense, sustains even the notion of a Type. — Heb. xi. 19 (Abraham re- ceived back Isaac from the dead sv ‘rapa(3o Xr). It is also used in the