eavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my
mouth." Deut. 32:1.

31. AN APOSTROPHE is a _digression_ from the order of any discourse, and a
direct _address_ to the persons of whom it treats, or to those who are to
form a judgment respecting the subject of which it treats.--_Lord._
_Example._--"Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto
the law of our GOD, ye people of Gomorrah." Isa. 1:10.

32. AN ALLEGORY is a narrative in which the subject of the discourse is
described by an analogous subject, resembling it in its characteristics
and circumstances--the subject of which it is descriptive being indicated
in its connection. _Examples._--See Ezek. 31:3-9; Ps. 80:8-16; Jud. 9:8-15.

Past _historical_ events, instead of supposititious ones, are sometimes
used for illustration. When thus used they serve as allegories, without
affecting their original historical significance. _Example._--Gal. 4:
22-31. See also Rom. 9:7, 8; 1 Cor. 9:9, 10, and 10:11.

33. A PARABLE is a similitude taken from natural things, to instruct us in
the knowledge of spiritual. _Examples._--Matt. 13th, and 21:28-41.

The Parable differs from the Allegory in that the acts ascribed are
appropriate to the agents to which they are attributed. In the Allegory,
acts may be ascribed to real objects which are not natural to those
objects. _Example._--See Judges 9:7-15.

The Parable is sometimes used to denote a prophecy, (Num. 23:7); sometimes
a discourse, (Job 27:1); sometimes a lamentation, (Micah 2:4); sometimes a
proverb, or wise saying, (Prov. 26:7); and sometimes to indicate that a
thing is apocryphal. Ezek. 20:49. The terms parable and allegory, are
often wrongfully applied.

34. A RIDDLE is an enigma--something to be guessed. _Example._--See Judges
14:24-18. It is sometimes used to denote an allegory. Ezek. 17:1-10.

35. TYPES are emblems--greater events in the future being prefigured by
typical observances, "which are a shadow of good things to come." Col.
2:17.

36. THE HYPOCATASTASIS, or substitution, is a figure introduced by Mr.
LORD, in which the objects, or agents, of one class are, without any
formal notice, employed in the place of the persons or things of which the
passages in which they occur treat; and they are exhibited either as
exerting, or as subjected to an agency proper to their nature, in order to
represent by analogy, the agency which those persons are to exert, or of
which those things a