HETEROSIS
HETEROSIS
HETEROSIS is, when the Accidence of the parts of speech (number, gender, case, etc.) are interchanged with one another. It may be named, Enallage of the accidents. Or it is wont to be specially named, Enallage of number; of gender; of case; and so on. In the case of Nouns, the singular number is said to be put for the plural (Enallage, or Heterosis, of number); the masculine or feminine gender for the neuter (Enallage of gender); the nominative case for the oblique case (Enallage of case); the positive degree for the comparative; and vice vers in the several cases. In Verbs, the singular number is said to be put for the plural; the first person for the second or third (Enall. of person); the Indicative Mood for the Imperative or Sub-junctive; the Present Tense for the Future or Preterite, etc. – – and vice vers in the several eases.-Examples: Enallage (or Heterosis) of Cases, which is specially called Antiptosis; Act 19:34, , – – The Nominative case for the Oblique case. Gnom. on the passage.-Enallage (or Heterosis) of Degree; Mat 18:8, -i.e. it is better for thee. The Positive degree for the Comparative.-Enallage (or Heterosis) of Mood; Rev 10:9, . The Infinitive Mood, , for the Imperative, . The reference is to Enallage of Mood, in the observation which is made in the Gnomon on Rom 15:10 : The Imperative, put by Apostrophe, is equivalent to an absolute or categorical Indicative. Comp. Joh 2:19, and the Gnom.-Enallage (or Heterosis) of Tense; 1Co 5:10, . The Present for the Imperfect. See Gnom. on this passage, and BAUERS Philol. Th. P. p. 159. Comp. 1Co 7:14, – – Often an Imperative after an Imperative has the force of the Future. Joh 1:47, , Come and see; i.e. thou shalt see.-Enallage (or Heterosis) of Gender. The feminine gender is put for the neuter Hebraically; because the Hebrews have no neuter gender; and, inasmuch as the language of the New Testament hebraizes, it is no wonder that the same idiom occurs in the latter. See the Gnom. on Mat 21:42, and Rev 14:19. I refrain from cither collecting or transcribing here more instances, which, if the Reader desires to have in the greatest abundance, he will find a plentiful harvest in GLASSIUS in Philol. S., and in Bauer, who ought to have been named in the foremost place, in Philol. Th. P. OLEARIUS L. de Stilo N. T. p. 266, etc., also has some examples; but he has referred Enallage universally to the Hebraisms of the New Testament, not altogether correctly.
, Distinctness, is that which makes the language perspicuous and clear, so that it may be altogether understood from it what has been done [or what ought to be done], and how.-See the Gnom. on Act 22:3; Act 26:4; also upon 1Co 6:15.
. See the Title Hendiadys, below.