METAPHORA
METAPHORA
METAPHORA, or TRANSLATIO, is the change of the strict signification into an alien one on account of a similarity which exists between the things. Therefore in every Metaphor there is a similarity, which is reduced into and completely included in one word, upon the foundation of which it as it were depends.-ERNESTI In. Rh. p. 154, etc.-Examples: Mat 16:18-19, , . A Metaphor from architecture.-2Co 5:1, – ,-This Metaphor from his own trade might the more affect PAUL, who was a tent-maker. The Gnom. on the passage.-1Ti 6:19, ,-An accumulated Metaphor, which causes neither tAEdium nor obscurity, but tends to impart force and elegance.-2Ti 4:7 : The subject having been twice expressed by a Metaphor, – , is in the third place expressed in plain (unmetaphorical) terms, . Comp. the Titles, ALLEGORY, METONYMY, SYNECDOCHE.