Image, of different metals--A succession of governments.--Dan.
2:37-42.
Incense, or odors--Prayers.--Rev. 5:8 and 8:4.
Lamb, the--Christ.--Rev. 5:6, 9, 10.
Lamb's wife--Risen saints.--Rev. 19:7, 8.
Lake of fire and brimstone--The place of the second death.--Rev.
20:15.
Likeness of a man--The Lord.--Ezek. 1:26, 28, and 8:2, 4.
Linen, fine and clean--Righteousness of saints--Rev. 19:8.
Mountains--Kings, or forms of government.--Rev. 17:9, 10.
New Jerusalem--The redeemed Church, or the Bride, the Lamb's
wife.--Rev. 21:9, 10.
Revivification of dry bones--Resurrection of the dead.--Ezek. 37:11,
12.
Stars--Angels, _i.e._, messengers of the churches.--Rev. 1:20.
Souls of martyrs living again--The first resurrection.--Rev. 20:4, 5.
Stone, becoming a mountain--Kingdom of God.--Dan. 2:45.
Waters--Peoples.--Rev. 17:15.
Wild Beasts--Governments.--Dan. 7:17.
Woman--A city.--Rev. 17:18. Explained to be a church.--21:9, 10.

24. TROPES are figures of various kinds, used to _illustrate_ the subjects
to which they are applied.--They embrace the Simile, Metaphor, Prosopopoeia,
Apostrophe, Synecdoche, Allegory, &c.

25. LAWS OF FIGURES--(_a._) "The terms in which they are expressed are used
in their ordinary and literal sense."--_Lord._

(_b._) "The agents or objects to which figures are applied are always
expressly mentioned. Figures, in that respect, differ wholly from symbols,
which never formally indicate, unless an interpretation is given, who the
agents, or what the objects are which they represent."--_Ib._

(_c._) "The figurative terms are always predicates, or are employed in
affirming something of some other agent or object; and are therefore
either nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs."--_Ib._

(_d._) "As their terms are used literally, the figure lies, when they are
employed in an unusual manner, simply in their being applied to objects to
which they do not properly belong."--_Ib._

(_e._) "They are used accordingly in all such cases for the purpose of
illustration, and their explication is accomplished, not by assigning to
them some new and extraordinary meaning, but simply by conjoining with
them the terms of a comparison which expresses the relation in which they
are employed."--_Ib._

(_f._) "It is in metaphors and personification only that acts and
qualities are ascribed to agents and objects that