{"product_id":"2940011808593","title":"Figures of Speech Used in The Bible","description":"JEHOVAH has been pleased to give us the revelation of His mind and will in words. It is therefore absolutely necessary that we should understand not merely the meanings of the words themselves, but also the laws which govern their usage and combinations.\u003cbr\u003eAll 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 figures .\u003cbr\u003eThe ancient Greeks reduced these new and peculiar forms to science, and gave names to more than two hundred of them.\u003cbr\u003eThe Romans carried forward this science: but with the decline of learning in the Middle Ages, it practically died out. A few writers have since then occasionally touched upon it briefly, and have given a few trivial examples: but the knowledge of this ancient science is so completely forgotten, that its very name to-day is used in a different sense and with almost an opposite meaning.\u003cbr\u003eThese manifold forms which words and sentences assume were called by the Greeks Schema ( ) and by the Romans, Figura . Both words have the same meaning, viz., a shape or figure . When we speak of a person as being a figure we mean one who is dressed in some peculiar style, and out of the ordinary manner.","brand":"Liante Pub.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080837218544,"sku":"2940011808593","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011808593_p0.jpg?v=1763549776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011808593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}