of a sentence : e.g. — Ep. James i. 24, xarmyiss yap eavrov xal — xa/ — u The accumulation of the particles xal has great force.” The Gnom. on the passage. — Ch. iv. 13, crj/Mspov xal avpiov •7ropevffu>/jje0a — xal — xal — xal xepdrjffu/Mv. u The Polysyndeton expresses the caprice of a mind secure and indifferent.” See Gnom. and on Rev. xviii. 12, etc.— Comp, the Title Asyndeton.
PROSOPOPOEIA is a species of a somewhat bold Metaphor, when Life, Language, and other things which are peculiar to man, are attributed to fictitious things, or to those destitute of life and sense. So care is attributed to the day in Matt. vi. 34. — So Rom. vii. 1. According to the sense of the apostle, life is ascribed to the Law itself by Prosopopoeia or Personification. See Gnom. and note on Gal. iii. 15, ovdelg. — Gal. iii. 24, No/aos, the Law, is called <? raibaywyog, a schoolmaster. — It is also termed Prosopopoeia, when those long ago dead are said to discharge the office of giving testi- mony as though they wrere present. See Gnom. on Heb. xi. 2 ; with which comp. Luke xvi. 29.
PROTHERAPIA is, if we preface our words by intimating in general our sincere and kindly feeling towards our readers or hearers : or if, when about to speak words of a kind whereby mode- ration, modesty, and gentleness might seem to be injured, we guard ourselves from being misunderstood by some previous mitigation ; and so effect that a more ready access is afforded to the minds of our readers or hearers : e.g. — Matt. viii. 9, The Centurion being about to say, gp/w un s^avr'ov ffrpartuirag [by which words modesty might seem to be injured], employs a Protherapia : eyu avdp'anog elfjji vno e%ov<ria'j. — Acts ii. 29, Petek, when he had to say something less favourable of David, premises a Protherapia , "A vdpeg adeXco /,
s£ov [gVrw] g/Vg/i/ /Agra <7rappyiclag Rom. iii. 2, Paul, intending
from the privileges of the Jews to reprove them [which intention seemed likely to do violence to gentleness], premises a Protherapia , ver. 1, etc. See also the Gnom. on 1 Cor. xiv. 18. Also the
Ep. of Jude, ver 1, note, rerfjpq/ievo/g ; and the passages quoted in
Index III. of the Gnom. — Comp, the Title Epitherapia.
RECAPITULATION. — See the Title Anakephaksosis.
REGRESSION is the figure said to be used, when several things are either supposed or proposed [laid down as a supposition or a proposition], and then the writer goes back to explain or per- fect the several particulars one by one, in an inverse order for the most part, or if it so please him, in an indiscriminate or unstudied order. So Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 13, commences a Regression, and
enumerates what he has alleged, ver. 3—11. Comp. Gnom. on