The interchange of cases, indeed [Antiptosis], is a very usual Grascism ; but this interchange of cases [when the relative is put, not in that case which was required by the Verb to which it is joined, but in that case in which the Substantive to which it refers was put] neither can be called Syllepsis, nor in that passage do the cases seem to be changed on the same principle. Hence has arisen to me a suspicion, that for Synchysis he by a slip of the pen wrote Syllepsis : but since not even this explanation seems suf- ficiently to meet the case, the reader may, if he pleases, free this passage of Paul from its difficulties by Parenthesis or Anacoluthon. Comp. Wolf’s Cur. Philol. and Crit. on this passage, pp. 341, 342.
SYMPERASMA, or CONGERIES [See Gnom. on 1 John v. 7, 8, T. ii. p. 569], is a comprehensive outline [or Conclusion] de- rived from the preceding declaration and demonstration ; which comprises in a kind of brief summary the foregoing enunciations. For example, — Matt. i. 17, rragai obv ai ysvscei aftb ’ A (3 pccu/j, sax; A avid, ysvsa, i ds/iaTSGtfapsg, x.r.X. — John XX. 30, rroWa fi'sv ovv xcti uWa <r?j/x£/a sKoiriGs v 6 ’iqtfovg svujxiov. — Heb. xi. 39, Ka / ovtoi Kavreg fiaprvprjdsvreg dice
rrjg k'ksts aig, obx sxo/xiffavro rrt v stfccyysX'iav John i. 2, ovrog fjv sv
apyjij\ vpog rbv Qsov. See Gnom.
Congeries, evm Oponr/jjbg, also is a somewhat full enumeration of the forms (or, Species) of a Genus, and of the parts of a Whole [Ernesti In. Rh. § 385] ; or, when several words, which signify different things in the Species, are brought together into one mass [Flacius’ Clavis Script, p. ii. p. 229] : e.g. — Heb. xi. 32, etc., xepi
rsdsuv , Ba pax ts xai xai ’Is<p6as . In the Gnomon itself
on 1 Tim. iii. 2, there is a Congeries. u The new man is some- thing festival-like, or joyous,” etc. : T. ii. p. 352.
SYNCATEGOREMA is an accessory Proposition added to the principal one ; e.g. — 1 Cor. i. 17, aXX’ svuyys}Jffac>9ou is an accessory Proposition, in respect of what goes before ; but this very Idea as to the preaching of the Gospel is treated by the apostle, in what follows, in such a way that these two words, in respect of the consequences deduced from them, sustain the part of a principal Proposition. See the Gnom. on this passage. A nearly kindred passage occurs in ch. xii. 2, where the words bn jjysoQs are the predicate itself whereas they might appear to be an accessory idea. See the Gnom. — Comp, the Title Muhalis Sermo.
SYNCHYSIS is the name of the Figure employed, when the order of the expressions in a sentence has been disturbed. Hyper- ha,ton and Synchysis scarcely differ. It tends to the elegance of the language, if the Synchysis answers beautifully to the things described, as the Gnomon observes on Matt, xxvii. 53. — Comp, the Title IIyrerbaton.