Figures of Speech Used in the Bible e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. All language is governed by law; but, in order to increase the power of a word, or the force of an expression, these laws are designedly departed from, and words and sentences are thrown into, and used in, new forms, or gures. The ancient Greeks reduced these new and peculiar forms to science, and gave names to more than two hundred of them.