Part I. METAPHORS FROM THE PARTS OF LIVING CREATURES. 'fo SWALLOW, GULCH DOWN, &c. is of the fame metaphorical Notation, 2 Sam. "vii. 16. Job x. 8. xx. I8. and xxxvii. 20. Pfal. xxxv. 24, 25· lii. 5, 6. cvii. 2 6, 27. and cxxiv. 3: !fa. iii. I2. and xxviii . .7· Lam. ii. 2. .Hof viii. 8. Hab.}. '3· I Cor. xv. 54· 2 Cor.11. 7· I Pet. v. 8. Numb. 1v. 20. Prov. x1x. 28. To LICK, has th~ fame Signification, Numb. xxii. 4of which, and the 'l'ongue, we have treated before. A 'l'OOTH metaphorically denotes a Promontory or !harp Rock hanging over or formed like a Tooth, r Sam. xiv. 4· Job xxxix. 28. But when 'l'eeth are attribmed to Men it denotes Virulence, and a hoftik Power ; the Metaphor being taken from Beafts, who 'for the moft Part when they fight, ufe their Teeth as olfenfive Weapons to annoy thofe they fet upon, Pfal. iii. 7, 8. lvii. 5· lviii. 6, 7· and cxxiv. 5, 6. Job xxix. I7· Prov. xxx. I4, &c. A LIP metaphorically fignifies a Bank of a River, or the Mouth of a Velfel, Gen. xxii. '7· and xli. 17. 1 Kings vii. 23, 24, 26. 2 Kings ii. I3· 2Chron. ii. 2, 5· The hinder Part of the N eck ( Cervix) if [hard, or to be hardened] be added, meta– phorically denotes Contumacy, Stubbornnefs, and a refraCtory Mind ; the Metaphor being taken from Hor!es, or other untamed Beafts, who being wild and ungovernable, will not fulfer their Necks to be bended as the Rider would have ir, Exod. xxxii. 9· xxxiii. 3• 5· and xxxiv. 9· Deut. ix. 6, 13. and xxxi. 27. 2Kings xvii. I4. 2 Chron, xxx. 8. and xxxvi. 13. Ifa. xlviii. 4· Jer. vii. 26. and xix. I5. Nehem. ix. 17, 29, Prov. xxix. 1. Pfal. lxxv. 5· The Word to BEHEAD metaphorically fignifies to demolilh or break down, Hof x. 2: He (that is, God) jhall behead.their Altars. They had certain Altars placed aloft, as if they had little Heads, and alfo Horns, &c. TheWINGS of a Bird, becaufe 1. They are its outward Members. And 2. Becaufe they are fometimes expanded at large. And 3· Becaufe they are the Inftruments of fwift Flight through the Air; do yield a threefold Metaphor. ( r.) They denote the extreme or outward Pi!rt of a Garment, Numb. xv. 38. Rut!., iii. 9· 1 Sam ..xxiv. 5· Jer. ii. 34· Hag. ii. I2. Zcch. viii. 23, &c. (2.) The Sides or difpofed l{anks of a whole Army, !fa. viii. 8. Dan. ix. 27. The extreme or remote Parts of the Earth, Job xxxvii. 3· and xviii. I 3· !fa. xi. I z. and xxiv. I 6. Ezek. vii. 2, &c. (3.) The Wings of the Sun and the Morning are the firft Rays of Light fuddenly (like Wings) expanded over the whole Earth, Pfal. cxxxix. 9· Mal. il', 2. On the con– trary Virgit thus fpeaks, Nox ruit, & fufcis tellurem ampleElitur alis. Night rujhes on, and does the Earth embrace With fwarthy Wings; The Wings of the Wind, denote its Celerity and impetuous Courfe, 2 Sam. xxii. 1I. Pfal. xviii. 1 o. and civ. 3· Thefe three attributes ofWings meet in one Text, Ifa.xviii. r. TVoe to the Land the Shadow of Wings, fo the Hebrew. Where by thofe jhadowing \Vings, are underftood the Sails of Ships, which are the extreme Parts expanded in Form of Wings, and when filled with Wind, are the Caufe of the Ship's fwift Motion; and are withal a Shadow to the Sailors : The Cbaldee has it thus, Woe to the Land to which Men come from n far Country in Ships, and their Sails are expanded like an Eagle, which flies with his Wings. Junius and ?·remel/ius by Wings underttand the Coafts of the Land, that is, a Land lhady becaufe of the great and opacous Mountains that en– viron it, fuch being every where ·about the Red-Sea, as Strabo in his !aft Book of Geogra– pby tells us. .'l'o FLY, which is the Property of Birds, flgnifies in~ Metaphor to be carried or Jent Wtth a fw1ft and very fpeedy D1fpatch, lfa. VI. 6. and x1. I4. Dan. IX. 21. Pfal. xci. 5· ,,
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