Part L OF A METONYMY OF THE ADJUNCT. Obad. i. Hab. iii. 2. Matth. iv, 24. and xiv. r. and xxiv. 6. Mark i. 2S. and xiii. 7 , &c. !JY. the fame Trope '!'he EY_.E is put for Colors ~een by the Eye, a~d are the Objeft of Stght, ·~.m the ongmal rext o~. the followmg Places, Numb. XI. 7· ~ro. xiii. 55· Pro·v. XXl!L 3r. Ezek. 1. 4· and VIII. 2. and x. 9· So tw~ Eyes are ~ut for a double Way, which give Occafion. to look ;1pon both, Gen. xxxvm. 14, 21. Some fay this is a proper Name, fome fay it IS two Fountams. AFFEC'J'IONS and what bear Analogy with· them, are put for their Objea, as FAI'l'H for tfte Dofirine which is received and believed by Faith, Afisvi. 7· Gal. i. 23. Eph. iv. 5· 1'J'im. iv. 1. '!'it. i. 13. Jude 3· Rev. ii. '3· SeeGal. iii. 2!!> 25. HOPE is put for God in whom we hope, and from whom we expetl; every good Thing, Pfal. lxxi. 5· For thou art my Hope, 0 Lord, that .is, he in whom I hope, the Support of my Hope, and the God of m)' Strength. See Jer. XIV. 8. Pfal.lxv. 5, 6. Jer. xvii. 7, 13, &c. It is put for the Mejjiah or Chrift fpecially, Afis xx~iii. 20. For the Hope ofIfraeli am bound with this Chain, that is, for the Mejjiah, who IS hoped for and defired by lfrael, or (which is the fame Thing) for the Good hoped for from the Me.ffiah, Afls xxvi. 6, 7, ~. So Col. i. 27. and 1 'Iim. i. r. Chrift is called our Hope. It is put for Men, from whom we expect Good or confide in, as !fa. xx.5. 'l'hey jha/1 be ajhamed of Ethiopia their Hope, as Verfe 6. Likewife Hope is put for the Thing hoped for, as Prov. xiii. 12. Hope deferred maketh the Heart .fick, but when the Dejir! cometh, it is a 'l'ree of Life, that is, the Thing hoped for and defired. Rom. viii. 24. Hope that is Jeen, is not Hope, that is, the Thing hoped for, &c. Gal. v. 5· For wi through the Spirit wait for the Hope of Righteoujnefi by Faith, that is, eternal Life; promifed to the Jull: by Faith. So '.Tit. ii. 13. LOVE is put for the Perfon or Thing beloved, Jer. ii. H· Why trimmeft thou thy Wdj to feek Love? that is, :hat which thou love!t, Jer. xii. 7· I have given the LO'Ve of my Soul into tht Hand of her Enemies, that is, the People dearly beloved by me, as the Chaldee renders it. Hof. ·ix. 10. And their Abominations were as their Love, that is, the Idols which they love. DESIRE is put for the Perfon or Thing dejired and loved, Ezek. xxiv. 16. Son of Man, behold, I take away the Dejire of thine Eyes from thee with a Strokt, that is, thy defired and beloved Wife, as Verfe 18. So Verfe 21. Behold I will profane my Sanflu· ary, the Excellency ofyour Strength, the Dejire ofyour Eyes, that is, that which you Jove and delight in, as Verfe 25. for that which the Mind longs after is afcribed to the Eyes, as the Luft of the Eyes is put, 1 John ii. 16. This may give fome Light to that PalfJge, Hag. ii. 7· where Chrill: is called the Dejire ofall Nations-the Senfe is, that the Nations will extremely defire him, love him; embrace him and hope in him, that is, when they are converted to the Kingdom of Chrift by the Voice of the Gofpel (to whom the Name Gentiles is afcribed, Rom. xi. 13. and other Places). The TermDejire is fometimes put for the AffeCtion of Love; for to be defired, fignifies to be loved and e!teemed, (by a Metonymy ofthe EffeCl: for the Caufe), for as much as Love begets De– fire after the Thing beloved, of which you have Examples, in Gen. xxvii. 15. Pfal, XIX. 10, 11. (with cxix. 126, 127.) Prov. xxi. 20. Cant. v. 6. !fa. i. 29. and xxxii. 12. and xliv. 9· Jer. iii. 19. Lam. i. 7• 10. and ii. 4· Dan. ix. 23. and x,II, 19. Hof. ix. 6. Amos v. 1 I. Zecb. vii. 14, &c. FEAR is put for God, who is feared, Gen. xxxi. 42. 'J'he Fear of lfattc, that is, the God whom lfaac feared and wodhipped, fo Verfe 53· Jtinius and 'l'reme/lius think this l'hrafe alludes to that Fear, by which God (as it were with a Bridle) re!trained Ifaac from rev.oking or recalling that Bleffing he gave to Jacob, Chap xxvii. 35, &c. lfa. VIII. 13. Let him be your Fear, and let bim be your Dread, that is, let God be feared and dreaded by you. Fe.ar 1s put for the Evil feared, ffal. liii. 5· '!'hey feared a Fear, where no Ftar was, that 1s, they feared where there was 'no Evil nor Danger which is the ObjeCl: and Caule of Fear. Prov. i. 26. I will mock when your Fear cometh,. that is, that which you fear and tremble at, as Verfe 27. When your Fear cometh as Defolation, and your Deftrufiion com– tth as a Whirlwind; wbm Diftrefi and Angui/b cometh upon you. See Prov. iii. 25, &c. H 2Cor.
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