GNOME
GNOME
GNOME.-A GNOME is a universal sentiment, which appertains to life and human actions, or is at least conjoined with human affairs in some way or other [ERNESTI In. Rh. 148]: e.g.-2Th 3:10, , .-1Co 6:12; Often Paul gives utterance in the first person singular to sentiments which have the force of a GNOME, as, , . The sacred writings are so pregnantly full of the best things, that these constitute, as it were, certain continued sentiments, either openly set forth in the form of gnomes, or else such as, though they be clothed with circumstantial particulars, and as it were applied to individual cases [Noemata], yet can be readily reduced to a general dogma or sentiment [Gnome]. FLACIUS Clavis Script. P. ii. p. 233. Comp. CALDENBACHII. Comp. Rhet. L. iii. ch. xxii.