PHILOLOGIA. SAC RA ;- WHEREIN THE SCHEMES AND FIGURES IN SCRIPTURE ARE R EDUCE D Under their proper H EADs, with a BriefExplication of Each, &c, TOGETHER WITH A T R E A T I s E 0 F THE TYPES, PARABLEs, ALLEGORIES, &c. in the OLD and NEw TESTAMENT, B 0 0 K I. PART II. C H A P. 1. Of the Figures of a Word. THE Word :EX"I""' Schema, principally and properly fignifies the Garb, Habit, ot Ornament of the Body ; and by a Metaphor is tranflated to fignify the Beauty, or Ornament of Speech, as * Ariftot!e and t Cicero fay. The Latins render it Ftj;ure, (as fome fay ) becauJe Stage-Players, by the Variation or !hiftingof their Habit, rcprefcnred divers F;gures of Men: Thefe Figures are called rhetorical Lights and Ornaments, and do not change rhe Senfe of Words, as '!'ropes do, bur give an Embdli!hment or Beauty to Speech. There are Figures n!;o AEErw~ of a Word, and Figures 'T"'( J'"~wo1x~, of a Sentence ; the firft, belong to the Matter, or as it were the Body of an Oration; the latter, to the Form, or as ir were, the Soul of a Sentence. The former are, when a Speech is figured in Words repeated in a certain Order, or, that mutually agree in Sound, for Emphajis, or Ornament's Sake. The latter are fuch, whofe Emphaticalnefi confifts not in Words fingly, but in the Things themfelves giving Weight and Gravity to the Speech. :!: Vo.lfius fays, '!'hat a Scheme properly jignijies two Things, viz. '!'he exterior Garb, and the Gejfure of the Body ; as Dancers, who caper at the Noife of mufical Infhumenrs : For Schemes of 'Words may in this, be relembled to Habit, or Garb, becaufe without them the Speech is naked, as a Man without his Clothes; and Schemes of Sentences, may be compared to artificial Geftures, becaufe, without thefe., it will be like a Man who moves or walks in his natural Place or Pofture; of the firft, we wlll produce fame l:.xamples. • Lib. 3· llhet. «<P· 8. t Ill Bruts fj' Orat. perf. .t Lib. 5• lnjlit. Orat. c. I. 1 Epizeuxis
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