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The essential merit of real or live metaphor being to add vividness to what is being conveyed, it need hardly be said that accuracy of detail is even more necessary in metaphorical than in literal expressions; the habit of metaphor, however, and the habit of accuracy do not always go together. Yet Taurès was the Samson who upheld the pillars of the Bloc.
Mackay, who finds out that the Israelites were cannibals, from such expressions as 'drinking the blood of the slain, might discover, perhaps, a similar unpleasant propensity in an excited wish of Hecuba, that she might eat the heart of Achilles; but in the absence of other evidence, it is unwise in either case to press a metaphor; and the food of ladies, wherever Homer lets us see it, is very innocent cake and wine, with such fruits as were in season.
At every turn and point at which the author required a metaphor, simile, or illustration, his mind ever turned FIRST to the law. He seems almost to have THOUGHT in legal phrases, the commonest of legal expressions were ever at the end of his pen in description or illustration.
Both clauses mean substantially the same thing, and are of a parabolic nature. The one adduces the metaphor of a race: 'Footmen have beaten you, have they? Then how will you run with cavalry? The other is more clear in the Revised Version rendering: 'Though in a land of peace you are secure, what will you do in Jordan when it swells? The 'swelling of Jordan' is a figure for extreme danger.
Lit., speak to thee of peace. I.e., may thy anger depart. 'The illuminator, one of the names of Sin. See above, p. 75. The name of Sin's temple at Ur. A metaphor descriptive of the moon, because of the resemblance of the crescent to a horn. The moon-god is pictured with a long beard on the seal cylinders. See p. 76. I.e., unlike other products, the moon's fullness is self-created.
Yet though in metaphor giants of learning, their office seems practically rather that of the dwarfs, as gatherers and guardians of treasure useless to themselves, but with which some luck's-child may enrich himself and his neighbors. Mr.
As if the heart of a woman can be made to run in a groove cut to order by the hand of any masculine insect!" she finished, thoughtless of the incongruous metaphor. "Then Skinny and your Uncle Josiah," the widow murmured, "and Parker are are pretending?" "No," Carolyn June answered, "they started out 'pretending, but they've stepped into their own trap!
But even in this realm of metaphor and image and symbolism, the North-Semitic wasf and even more the Hebraic parallels given in other parts of the Bible are closer far. The only genuine resemblance arises from identity of environment. If Theocritus and the poet of Canticles were contemporaries, they wrote when there had been a somewhat sudden growth of town life both in Egypt and Palestine.
But to take this as an adequate explanation; to force the metaphor to its logical consequences, to the exclusion of every other reasonable though non-rational assent, is the commonest but most fatal form of intellectual provincialism and narrowness.
They would urge that the primal necessity for the faithful is that by an act of the will, not necessarily an emotional act, but an act of pure and definite volition, they should associate themselves with the true and perfect sacrifice; that souls that do this sincerely are caught up, so to speak, into the heavenly chariot of God, and move upward thus; while the merely subjective and emotional religion is, to continue the metaphor, as if a man should gird up his loins to run in company with the heavenly impulse.
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