OF A p A R lE M I A OR pR 0 VE R B. Book I. ' C H A P. XXI. Of a Parremia er Proverb. THE generical Confideration of a '!'rope with Refpect to its Continuation we have treated of in the !aft Chapter; the JPecial ConGderation of it, we will treat of in this. Which is either according to common Ufe, and called Par.emia, Proverb or an Adagy; or with Refpect to its Obfcuriry, and is calltd Alnigma, or a Riddl; or obfcure Allegory. The Hebrews call it ~1110 Mejha!, Ezek. xvi. i4· and xviii. 2. from the Root ~lllr.J which takes its Signification fromComparing or Ruling, that fo ~lllr.J may be a Proverb, or a compa;anve Speech or Likenefs, or as it were ""e"' 'Y'"I""' a Ruling Sentence, which has the pnncipal Place m a Speech, and by Its Weight and Gravity it makes it more illuftrious. What other Acceptations this Word harh, fhall be fhewn (with Divine Affiftance) in the fecond Volume of this Book. To the Senfe we hold to, theWord "'"P"I-'''"•· 2Pet. ii. ?.2. exact!~ agrees, which fome think is derived "'"e<Ho "!-'&, a via, from, or, out of the Way, that IS, a depamng from the vulgar or common Way of fpeaking, or as others think from ""e'" "~-'"' * pr.eter 'Vel juxta primum 'Verbum (for "I-'& fign ifies alfo a Verb) and f>om its Senfe is, as it were, another Word and Senfe, as a Proverb is called. I nProverbs Words properly taken, or '!'ropes or their Affections are ufed ; which !aft only concern us in this Place. And both are either intire Sentences or pro·verbia/Phrab, which by common Ufe, are brought uu o a Sentence. Proverbial Sentences are to be read in Gen. x. 9· and xxii. '4· Numb. xxi. 27. I Sam. x. I2 . and xxiv. I4. 2Sam. v. 8. and xx. 18. Jer. xxxi. 29. Ezek. xvi. 44· and xviii. 2. Luke iv. 23. John iv. 37· 2Pet. ii. 22. in which Places the Holy Spirit affirms that thofe Sentences are become Prowrbs. There are other Phrafes xve'"' Y'"l-''"'' to which the Title of Proverbs is not annexed, yet becaufe of their Emphatica/nefs, they are fa efteemed: as Deut. xxv. 4· I Kings vii i. 46. and xx. I I. 2 Chron. xxv. 9· Job vi. 5· xiv. I9· xxvii. rg. and xxviii. I8. Pfa/. xlii. 7· and lxii. 9· Such is that famous Sen– tence, Pfal. cxi. IO.'l'he Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of JYifdom: See Pro'V. i. 7• and ix. IO. with Job xxviii. 25, z8. There are many in the Book called '~lllr.J the Pro– 'Uerbs of Solomon, as Pro.v. i. I7, 32. iii. IZ. vi. 6, 27. x. 5, 13, 19, 25. xi. I5, 22, 27. xii. I I , 15. XV. 2, 53• Xvii. I, 10, 19, 28. XiX. 2, 24. XX. 4t I I, 14, 2 J, 25. XXii. 6, 13. xxv. r 1, r6, 27. xxvi .. 4, 10, I 1, 14, 17, 28. xxvii. 6, 7,18, 10, 14, 17, 22. xxviii. 21. XXX. I5· &c. So in the Book of EcclejiPjhs, Chap. i. I5, I8. iv. 5> I2. v, 2, 6; 8, 9> IO. vi. 9· vii. '7· ix. 4, r8. x. I, 2, 8, 9, I5, I9,, 20. xi. 3, 4• 6, 7· xii. IZ. In the Prophets, Jer. xiii. 23. and xxiii. 28. Ezek. vii. 5· Micah vii. 5, 6. Habak. ii. 6. Mal. ii. IO, &c. In the New 'l'efomnent, Matt. v. 13, 14, IS• vi. 3, 2I, 24, 34· vii. 2, 5, I6. ix. 12, I6. x.· 1o, 22, 24, 26. xii. 34· xiii. 12, 57· xv. 14. xxiii. 23. xxiv. 2~. Mark ix. so. Luke ix. 62. xii. 48. xxiii. 31. Afls ix. 5· xx. 35· I Cor. v. 6. x. I2. xv. 33· 2 Cor. ix. 6, 7· 2 'J'heff. iii. IO. <J'it. i, I5· Here we muft note that Chrifi and his Apoftles ufed feveral Prowrbs, or vulgar Ways of fpeaking, common to th': Jews, which were partly w;itten in their old Books, yea even in the '['a/mud, as Matt. vn. 2. Mark IV. 24. Luke v1. 38. Wzth the fame Meafure ye mete, thefame jha/1 be meojitred to you again, which is in the '!'a/mud tract. Sanhedrim in thefe Words, 1? Cl'i111~ ;'1:! i11r.J Clil-!111 0110:!, By the fame Meafure which ye jha/1 mea– Jure, others will meafure to you again. It is very plain in the '{argum Hierofolymitanum, Gen. xxxviii. in thefe Words; B)' what Meafure a Man meafures, by the fame will others • Btyond or !ujides the Word. meafure
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