nothing, (2) nor speak; but — (3) I speak these things, (4) and I do them. The one is to be supplied from the other. [Comp, a kindred passage, ver. 38.] — John x. 25, xiv. 10, xvii. 26. A remarkable pas- sage and one very apposite for the purpose of explaining the weight of expressions of this kind, is Acts vii. 16, where comp, the Gnom. — Ileb. xii. 20, noiv fypiov 6iyr\ rod opovg , Xi6o(3oXrjdriffsrar The apostle, as aiming at brevity, quotes the twofold Divine edict in such a man- ner, as that he expresses the subject taken from the one sentence, the predicate from the other, leaving the rest of the words to be un- derstood from these very words that are expressed. The Gnomon on the passage expressly observes, that the language may be termed Semiduplex. (Comp. Ordo Temp. Ed. ii. pp. 73, 77, 187.) The sacred writers, as we have so far seen (especially Solomon in the Proverbs), use frequently both kinds of elliptical expression.
SERMOCINATIO is the figure which brings forward a person speaking ; or when words are adapted to a person, in accordance with his own character and the present object of the writer. — 1 Cor. ix. 24, ovru r pikers, ha zaraXafirire, — “ For by these words Paul does not directly exhort the Corinthians, but by a Seimnocinatio brings forward that exhortation (incitement), which the Judges and Trainers and spectators in the public games usually employed,” — which is the opinion of Bengel in the Gnomon on the passage. Comp, the Title Mimesis, and" Glassius, L. c. p. 2019, etc.
SERMO PLENUS, or FULL SPEECH, is opposed to Concisa Locutio (see above), where a proposition is expressly put, any at- tentive reader might have easily understood or supplied : e.g. — Matt. vii. 21, ov <ra g 6 Xsywv fioi, K vpie, Klipie, ehsXtuffsrai — rod sv odpa- voTg ; where, though not the smaller edition of the New Testament, yet the Gnomon on this passage, approves of the reading of the very ancient Latin Version, — “ but he who does the will of My Father, who is in heaven, he shall enter the kingdom of heaven and the same authority (the Gnomon) observes, that in such an antithesis the sacred writers use the full speech or expression. Comp, a kindred passage, 1 John ii. 17. Appar. Crit. Edit. ii. p. 449. — Rom. ii. 13, ov yap oi axpoarai rod vo/eiov bixaioi rrapa rep ©gw, aXX’ o / -Tro/jjra/ vo,aou d/xaiwQyiffovrai. To prevent such an apparent redun- dancy being ascribed as a fault to the sacred writer, the Gnomon has given a caution in its comment on dtxaicodriGovrai in the passage Sometimes, of two corresponding propositions, the one is brought forward as it were in abbreviated language , the other in full ; which very fact is delightful to observe, and, as I think, is not without a beautiful reason : e.g. — 2 Tim. i. 15, 16, 17, 18, uv hr 7 QvysXXog xai
Ep/uooyhrig. Auv) eXtog 6 K vpiog rp ' Ovr\<n(p6pov o/'xw — duir\ avrp 6 Kvpiog tbpzTv g Xiog. The apostle does not utter imprecations against those not stedfast, whilst he prays for the best blessings upon the stedtast.