Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors
Overview
In Tropologia, one of Benjamin Keach’s most famous works, he provides a helpful guide to the various figures of speech used in Scripture, noting that the main scope of his work is “to offer some assistance towards the explaining and finding out the true sense and meaning of the Holy Scriptures.” First explaining and distinguishing various elements used—such as type, simile, metaphor, synecdoche, hyperbole, and parable—Keach aids readers in identifying these important literary devices, and understanding them in interpretation of the Bible.
Top Highlights
“‘And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host, praising God,’” (Page 647)
“The Organical Cause or Instrument is put for the Thing effected by it” (Page 5)
“Deut. 17:6, ‘At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death, but at the mouth of one witness, he shall not be put to death,’” (Page 5)
“‘Who hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.’” (Page 2)
- Title: Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors
- Author: Benjamin Keach
- Publisher: William Hill Collingridge
- Print Publication Date: 1856
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Typology (Theology); Bible › Language, style; Metaphor
- Resource ID: LLS:TRPLGKYSCMTPHRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:24:46Z