Chleuasmos; or, Mocking
Chleuasmos; or, Mocking
An Expression of Feeling by Mocking and Jeering
Chleu-as-mos. Greek, , mocking, scoffing, sneering, jeering, from (chleuee), a jest, and (chleuaz), to make a jest of, scoff at.
EPLCERTOMESIS, Greek, (Ep-i-ker-to-mee-sis), a sneering or jeering.
MYCTERISMOS, Greek, (muk-teer-is-mos), a turning up of the nose at, sneering, or snuffing, from (mukteer), the nose, snout, nostrils.
The figure is used when the speaker or writer excites laughter by a jeer or sneer; or excites ridicule by turning up the nose.
This is exactly what the Holy Spirit says the Pharisees did at the Lords teaching in Luk 16:14, and which led Him to rebuke them, and put them to shame and silence by a parable similar to those they were fond of using (See Lightfoot).
It is also what Jehovah will do, in return, to those who have thus treated His Anointed.
Psa 2:4.-He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Pro 1:24-33.-This is a solemn example of the figure.
See also Isa 14:4; Isa 14:12. Mic 2:4.