By Louis Berkhof
A textbook overlaying the historical past of hermeneutical ideas, the right kind perception of the Bible, grammatical interpretation, and old and theological interpretation.
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In the case of the metonymy, this relation is a mental rather than a physical one. It indicates such relations as cause and effect, progenitor and posterity, subject and attribute, sign and thing signified. Paul says in D. The Figurative Use of Words 1. PRINCIPAL TROPEZ USED IN SCRIPTURE. In the present connection we are not concerned with figures of syntax or E Principles of Biblical Interpretation Grmmatical Interpretation I Thess. 5 :19, “Quench not the Spirit,” when he refers to the special manifestations of the Spirit.
In Ps. ” The expositor cannot hope to interpret this passage unless he is acquainted with the characteristics of the palm tree and the cedar. If he desires to explain Ps. 51:9 : “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean,” he must have some knowledge of the method of ceremonial purification among Israel. b. The interpreter should make it a point to discover the principal idea, the tertium comparationis, without placing too much importance on the details. When the Biblical authors employed such figures as metaphors, they generally had some specific point or points of agreement in mind.
2:9 : “ . . thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel” ; and that of utter loneliness in Isa. ” Cf. also Ps. 102:6; Cant. 2 :9. (2) The allegory, which is merely an extended metaphor, and should be interpreted on the same general principles. Examples of it are found in Ps. 80 53-15 ; and John 10 :l-18. Terry makes the following distinction between the allegory and the parable : “The allegory is a figurative use and application of some supposable fact or history, whereas, the parable 1s itself such a supposable fact or history.