The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c.
Smith, John, Gent., Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
Scriptural Examples of Antanaclasis.
Matth. 28.29. I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, untill that day, when I drink it new with you in my Fathers King∣dom, &c.
Here the first word (Drink) hath a literal or proper signification; but the later, a Me∣taphorical acceptation, concerning their partaking together of the joys of Hea∣ven.
John 1 10. The world was made by him, and the world knew him not, &c.
The former word (world) notes the whole universe; the later, the unbelieving men, who are of the world.
Thus in Matth. 13.33. Leaven signifies the nature of the Gospel, and in Mat. 16.6, 12, 7, 8. sinful corruption.
Page 96Matth. 8.22. Let the dead bury their dead, &c.
See Matth. 10.39. Luk. 6.26, &c. Joh. 4.13, 14. Isa. 59.18.
