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This latter is wider (more comprehensive), and more congenial to the spirit of the New Testament : he knew the other things, viz. that the wicked will not be unpunished : therefore he expressly sig- nifies his assent to the judgment of God, in ch. iv. 14. See Gnom.
SIMULTANEUM. — What a Simultaneum is, Bengel states in these words : in der erklarten offenbarung ; die zierliche Manier des Textes, da oft von zwey Dingen, die punktlich in einerley Zeit gelioren, das eine in zwey Theile getheilet, und gleichsam zerspalten, und das andere unversehens zwischen solche zwey Theil, by paren- thesis, gesetzet wird1 [See Einleitung, § 19, p. 84] : e.g. — Mark xiv. 13; Rev. xvi. 14; Gnom. on the passages, and L. cit. You will find many examples gathered together out of the Apocalypse. Comp. Bengel’s Harmony, § 182, note 3, p. 510, and § 250, note, p. 575.
SUPPOSITIO MATERTALIS [Metallage~\ is, if a word be taken for itself [according to its constituents] as consisting of letters or syllables ; as, for instance, u I was scarcely able to say that sad word, Farewell .” — u Lass dir das Memento mori l empfohlen Seyn.” Comp. Gnom. on Rom. ix. 7, note, aXX’ h ’ituax, etc.
SYLLEPSIS is, when the concord of the parts of speech is dis- turbed ; when the mind conceives a different thing from what is put forth in the words, i.e. when r'o voov/j^sm, the idea meant , and the sense is more regarded than the words.
Syllepsis, as Scioppius states [Gramm. Philos, p. m. 183], is either of Gender , or of Number , or of both. Syllepsis of Gender is, when we put forward one gender whilst we conceive another in the mind; as, John xvi. 13, 14, b Wav 8s sXd/i sxsTvog, r'o <7rvsv/xa rr\g dXrjd stag — sxsTvog s/xs do^dffsi — The Masculine is put for the Neuter ; and this is done not without cause, for it was more becoming to speak in the Masculine of a Divine Person. — Syllepsis of Number is, when we put forward one number whilst we are mentally thinking of an- other ; as, John xxi. 12, ov8s/g 8s IroX/xa ruv /xa Qrjruv e^srdoai avrov — sidorsg — The Plural is put, whereas the construction itself seems to require the Singular, but the reference is to the word, {xa^rcxv . — , 2 Cor. V. 19, %o<5fxov xaraXXdffffojv eccvrti, /xrj XoyiXj>[xsvog uvroTg — for aurfi. This Piural indicates that the 7tb6[xov, or world, meant is men, and it is on this Plural that the a vroTg depends. In the case of the note of the Gnomon on Col. iii. 16, sv ndcri — a passage which Bengel states may be explained by Syllepsis , I confess I feel in doubt, since in that passage one cannot find a Syllepsis either of Gender or Number.
1 A graceful arrangement of style, whereby, of two things properly belonging to the same period of time, the one is divided into two parts (as it were split into two), while the other takes us by surprise by being placed parenthetically be- tween the two parts.
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