PROSOPOPCEIA
PROSOPOPCEIA
PROSOPOPIA is a species of a somewhat bold Metaphor, when Life, Language, and other things which are peculiar to man, are attributed to fictitious things, or to those destitute of life and sense. So care is attributed to the day in Mat 6:34.-So Rom 7:1. According to the sense of the apostle, life is ascribed to the Law itself by Prosopopia or Personification. See Gnom. and note on Gal 3:15, .-Gal 3:24, , the Law, is called , a schoolmaster.-It is also termed Prosopopia, when those long ago dead are said to discharge the office of giving testimony as though they were present. See Gnom. on Heb 11:2; with which comp. Luk 16:29.