A Commentary on the Apocalypse
by Moses Stuart
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217158077
Paperback|9780217158077
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: t then /our, then twelve, and lastly ten. Parallelism, as exhibited in Hebrew poetry, not of the strictest kind but of that which is more free from rigid rule, reigns nearly everywhere. But I do not reckon this as a part of the numerosity of the book. All critics arc now agreed, that the Apocalypse is poetic in its very genius and nature. It is not, indeed, in Greek or Latin measure. But it is substantially of the same nature with Hebrew poetry, as to its diction, its symbols, and the whole round of its ideas. Yet few, if any, have undertaken to trace even the evidences of Hebrew parallelism or stiehomctry in it; and almost none speak of its numerosity, with the exception of Ewald and Zullig, who have disclosed some small part of it, That parallelism for substance reigns almost everywhere, (some exceptions we may find in all prophecy, even in Isaiah), needs no other proof than an attentive perusal of the book by any one who is familiar with Hebrew poetry. The disjecta membra poetae are found on every side, and in every quarter. It would be superfluous to make a foi-mal attempt to prove what lies open to noon-day inspection. Hereafter I shall, however, exhibit a few specimens of the usual parallelisms of the book. My present object is to produce evidence of the numerosity ? question throughout the Apocalypse. (a) Trichotomy, or tripartite divisions and groups, in the Apocalypse. (1) The first and leading division of this nature, (which however is hardly artificial), is, (a) The Prologue, chap, i?iii. (b) The Visions or main body of the work, iv?xxii. 5. (c) The Epilogue, 22: 6?21. Each of these divisions exhibits trichotomy, moreover, in all its gradations, throughout its appropriate subdivisions. The first of these, only in a few cases toward the close of the book; ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217158077 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217158072 |
| Weight | 1.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.91 In |
| List Price | $32.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 408 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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