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Excerpt from The Poetry of the Pentateuch, Vol. 2 of 2 A metaphor thus licentiously intruded is fre quently continued to an immoderate extent. The orientals are attached to this style of com position; and many flights which our ears, too fastidious, perhaps, in these respects, will scarcely bear, must be allowed to the general freedom and boldness of these writers. But if we examine the sacred poems, and consider, at the same time, that a great degree of obscurity must result from the total oblivion in which many sources of their imagery must be involved; of which many examples may be found in the Song of Solomon, as well as in other parts of the sacred writings; we shall, I think, find cause to wonder, that in writings of so great anti quity, and in such an unlimited use of figurative expression, there should yet appear so much purity and perspicuity, both in sentiment and language. In order to explore the real cause of this remarkable fact, and to explain more accurately the genius of the parabolic style, I shall premise a few observations concerning the use of the metaphor in Hebrew poetry, which I trust will be sufficiently clear to those who pe ruse them with attention, and which I think, in general, are founded in truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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