6 OF A METONYMY OF THE CAUSE. Book I. 'l'he PALA'l'E is put for Speech, Prov . v. 3· For the Lips ofa .ftrange Woman drop as an honey Comb, and [her Palate J fo the Hebrew, isJmooJber thafl Oil; that is, her Words or Speech. 'l'he 'I"HROA'l' is put alfo for loud Speaking, .lfa.!viii. 1. Cry [with tbe 'l'broat] [o the· Hebrew, Jpare not, &c. by which the Organ of Crying or Speaking is to be underftood, for the Explication follows, viz. lift up thy Voice like a 'l'rzmrpet, and what the Scope or ArgLiment of that loud Speech, or fhrill Cry, was to be, is added in thefe Words, and jbew my People their 'Iran.fkreflion, and the Houfe of Jacob their Sins. ·'J'he HAND is put for .liE/ions done by it, where there is alfo a Synecdoche, for by the ACtions of the Hands, fome other Things, as alfo Principles or Beginnings of Acti– ons are underftood, as Counfel, Machination or Contrivance; Thought, Endeavors, Care, &c. as 1 Sam. xxii. '7· Slay the Priejls of the Lord, for their Hand is alfo with David, that is, they help him with their Counfel. So 2 Sam. iii. 12.• and xiv. 19. 1 Kings x. 29. Pfal. vii. + !fa. i. 15. 'J'he H.liND is put for Writing, I Cor. xvi. z 1. '!"he Sabttation of me Paul, with mine tJWn Hand, that is, mine own Writing, and Col. iv. 18. 'Ibe Salutation by the Hand (that is, the Writing) of me Paul. This is ordinary, (viz. for a Man's Writing to be calkd his Hand) among the Greeks as Pollt!x and Suidas fay, and among the Latins, fee Cicero lib. vii. Epijl. ad Attic. as alfo in our own Language. '!"be HAND is put for a Gift reached by the Hand, PJal.!xviii.3z. Ethiopia/hall make her Hands run to God, fo the Hebrew, that is, Ethiopia fhall fpeedily lranfmil her Gifts, as Pfal.lxxii. ro• .lfa.lx. 6. to which relates that of• Pliny-the Ancient Greeks called Doron the Palm or Fifr, and therefore they called the Hand Gifts, that Word fa lignify– ing, becaufe ·they were given thereby.-See Pfa!.xxii. 35, 36. And more under the Head or Title Metaphors. .ASWORD is put for War or Slaughter, which are in a great Meafure performed thereby. Exod. v. 3· Let us go we pray thee, tbrte Days Journey into the Defer/, and ·Jacrifice unto the Lord our God, left be fall upon us with Peflilence, or with the Sword. Levit. xxvi. 6. Neither /halt the Sword go through your Land, [o !fa. i. 20. Jtr. xxiv. · 12, 13, I5, 16. and xliii. I I . Pfal. cxliv. 10, Rom. viii. 35· and feveral other Places. It ·is faid, Matth. x. 34· I came not to fend Ptace, hut aSword-that is, not fuch Peace, as that Men will reft contented and quiet in Paganifm, or Irreligion, but contend ear– nefrly for the true Religion in their Confeffions and Preaching of the Gofpcl, even through Sulferings, Perfecution, and Blood, &c. .ALINE or ?:1n meafuring Rope, is put for a Country or Tract of Land, becaufe it was ·meafured by it, as Amos vii. I7· Micah ii. 5· Zecb. 'ii. 1. For it was a Cuftom to mea– fore Land by aa extended Cord, and diftribute Inheritances, as in Palefline, which is done in modern Times by a Rod or Perch; therefore the Word ?:1n a Cord, Rope, or Line, is put for the Bounds, Space or ~antity of the Portion ofLand given. Deut. iii. 4· All the Line ofArgob, t the Kingdom of Og in Bajhan. The Chaldee fays [all the Houfe or Place of the Province,] &c. fee Jojbua xvii. I4. Pfal. cv. 10, 11. Zepb. ii. 5, &c. Sometimes it is alfo a Metaphor, Deut. xxii. 9· For the Lord's Portion is his People, 'Jacob is the Cord of his Inheritance, that is, a People peculiar to himfelf, and fegregat– ed or divided from the World, fee Pfal. xvi. 6. 'Ibe Lines are fallen mtto me in pleafant Places, yea, ! have a goodly Heritage.-Our Savior, who is here fpeaking by the Pro-– phet, ufes thiS Metaphor to exprefs the Figure or Dt!ineation of the Church, &c. Hence it is faid, ·z Cor. x. 15, 16, Not boafling of 'Ihings without our Nieajim, that is, of other Men's Labors,- but having Hope when your Faith is increafed, ihat we jhall be mlarged by you according to qur Rule abundantly to preach the Gofpel in the Regions beyond you, a11d not to boafl in another Mail's Line (or Rule) of'Ihings made ready to our Hand, where""'"' • Lib. 3S· cap. If. Gr4ri .ilnJig_u1' i/Onll }11lmam 'i.!d(abant, f.:/ iJ~rJ DrJra /JJ.Mntril, <Jaia 1.1wzu Jarenlur. t So it i' in the Hebrew. RetuJ.: ,
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