Troposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704., De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut
Wicked Men compared to Vipers.
Mat. 3.7. O Generation of Vipers, &c.
JOhn Baptist calls the Scribes and Pharisees, and other wicked Men of the Jews, Vipers; not only Vipers, but a Seed and Generation of Vipers. Some think, he alludes to the Devil, that old Serpent, whose Off-spring they were: Ye are of your Father the Devil,* &c. But others rather think, he compares them to the Serpent called the Viper, upon consideration of divers Properties, wherein there is a fit resemblance between it and them, &c.
