PROPHECY Symbolic Emblem Prophecy (372): [compare modern Emblem Poetry]: Discourse with Objective or Of this three stages traceable. (1) Vision supernatural and symbolic, Interpre- Vision Cycles: Amos vii-ix; Zechariah i. 7-vi. 8-Revelation of St. John (pages 471-6). PROPHECY Prophetic continued Intercourse (383) With God: Prototype: Abraham's Intercession (Genesis xviii. 22-33).- Examples: Jeremiah xi-xii. 6, xvi, xvii. 14-18, xviii. 18-23, xxxi. 23-6; Ezekiel iv. 14; Habakkuk i-ii. — Compare above: the Prophetic Calls. With Inquirers: the Response: compare as Prototype the primitive Inquiry of the Lord (Genesis xxv. 23; 1 Samuel xxviii. 6). In the Prophetic Books: Jeremiah xxi. 1-10, xlii. 1-22; Ezekiel xiv. I-II, XX. 1-44; Zechariah vii-viii. With this connect Dialectic Prophecy: Discourse founded on an interrup- With the World: Prophetic Incidents and Controversies.- Conspiracy of Anathoth (Jeremiah Prophecy and History interwoven: Isaiah xxxvi-ix; Jeremiah xxxvii-xliv; Jeremiah lii-iii; Dramatic Prophecy (384) Micah vi. 1-8 The Lord's Controversy before the Mountains-Micah vi. 9-vii The The Prophetic | The RHAPSODY OF ZION REDEEMED (ISAIAH XL-LXVI)-Above, chapter XIX. An exalted form Rhapsodies of Judgment (Isaiah xxiv-xxvii) - Of Salvation (Isaiah xxxiii) - Of the Drought (Jeremiah xiv-xv) - Of the Locust Plague (Joel) - Of the Judgment to Come (Amos i. 3ix)-Of the Chaldeans (Habakkuk) Rhapsodic Discourses: Discourses merging in Rhapsodies, or becoming rhapsodic at particular VI. - LITERATURE OF ADDRESS Oratory or Spoken Address | The Orations of Moses in Deuteronomy. (268-85) Miscellaneous Speeches (apparently only in condensation): Joshua xxiii, xxiv; Acts ii. 14-36, iii. 12-26, v. 35-9, vii. 2-53, x. 34-43, xv. 7-21, xvii. 22-31, xx. 18-35, xxii. 1-21, xxiv. 2-8 and 10-21, xxvi. 1-23. Formal Prayers: Address to God: II Samuel vii. 18-29; I Kings viii. 22-53; Acts iv. 24-30; (apocryphal) Epistle or Written Address | Pure Epistles (Pastoral Intercourse): I, II Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Wisdom Epistles: James, I John. Epistolary Ephesians, Colossians, I, II Peter, Jude. Manifestos APPENDIX III A METRICAL SYSTEM OF BIBLICAL VERSE THE Metrical System here described has reference to the parallelism of clauses in Biblical verse. [See above, page 46.] Whatever else there is of metre in Biblical poetry belongs to the original language, and is not imitated in the ordinary versions. Parallelism is a rhythmic movement of the thought, and is independent of particular versions. Such parallelism may be reduced to a regular system. Parallelism Similar and General Ideas of Parallelism 1. It has been shown above (chapter I) how the versification of the Bible rests mainly, not on such things as rhyme, or number and quantity of syllables in a line, but in parallelism of clauses. It is necessary to distinguish Similar and Dissimilar Parallelism. The first obtains where, in a given sequence, all the lines are equally parallel with one another. Dissimilar Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them meat to the full. With this compare Dissimilar Parallelism, where particular lines adhere together with a bond that is closer than the bond which unites them all into a sequence. If thou hast sinned, What doest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, The indenting of these lines shows to the eye, what the sense confirms, that the first and third lines go together in this passage, and equally the second and fourth. Again: Is the righteousness ye should speak dumb? Do ye judge uprightly the sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which hearkeneth not to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wisely. It is obvious that in this passage the first two lines are bound together, and again the last seven; yet that the whole makes a single sequence is clear from the fact that the same dissimilar parallelism of 2 and 7 is reproduced in the passage which immediately follows (psalm lviii). Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; Like the untimely birth of a woman that hath not seen the sun. He shall take them away with a whirlwind, The green and the burning alike. 2. In all discussions of parallelism it is important to remember-what has repeatedly been emphasised in this work1-that the term covers a wide variety of structure, from the fainter parallelism which is natural in prose style, to a highly rhythmic structure, which Semi-parallelism is a fit medium for the most musical verse. In particular, such a case may be noted as the opening of Job, where, in the midst of prose narrative, the excited words of successive messengers make a transitional stage on the way to the full verse of the dramatic speeches. 1 See especially pages 113-29. |