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.
Job 22.6. Thou hast stripped the naked of their cloathing: He that is naked cannot be stripp'd or spoyled of his clothes; but the word naked, here signifies male vestitum, ill or poor∣ly clad, &c.
Jer. 22.19. He shall be buried with the bu∣rial of an Ass, drawn and cast forth, &c. (i.e.) he shall have no burial.
1 Tim. 5.6. But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
See Act. 5.41, &c. Isa. 58.10.
