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Figures of Speech in the Bible

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  • E. W. Bullinger

How should we understand the figures of speech in the Bible? This article identifies and explains some biblical figures of speech.

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Figures of Speech in Human Language

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  • C. F. Pfeiffer

Hermeneutics should not be divorced from the study of language in general. The Bible is written in human language by men who used the language conventions of the day. This essay focuses on the way in which figures of speech and figurative language function in texts. The author notes similes, metaphors, allegory, metonymy, irony, and so on.

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As a bird with a broken wing is “free” to fly but not able, so the natural man is free to come to God but not able. Loraine Boettner
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