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Scriptural Examples of Enallage.

This change of order is sometimes of the Number: as,

Psal, 14.1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God: They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, &c.

See Exod. 20.2. Prov. 1.11. Matth. 1.21.

Here the singular is put for the plural number; or on the contrary.

Thus in Isa. 3.12. Women shall bear rule over them, &c. (i. e.) effeminate men shall, &c. The Feminine gender put for the Masculine, effemi∣nate men are called women.

Psal. 1.1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, &c. (i. e.) whose heart, affections and will God hath so renewed, that he will not walk in their coun∣sel, &c. where the present is put for the future tense. See Matth. 24.40.

Psal. 18, 29. For by thee I have run through a Troop: and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

Deut. 32.15. But Jesurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxed fat, &c. the like exam∣ple you have in Gen. 49.4.

Notes

• Enal. of the Num∣ber.
• Enal. of the Gend.
• Enal. of the Tense.
• Enal. of the Pers.