theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
Roman 2:14-15,"""For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another""",3490,Writing,Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,9048,2003-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:33:56 UTC,,•I've included twice: Law and Government
•Cross-reference: Thomas Burnet in his third Remarks to Locke.
•This is the biblical support for natural law.,"14: For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
(Romans 2:14-6)",""
Negated Metaphor,"""Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.""",3495,Writing,Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,9053,2003-07-14 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:33:56 UTC,2003-10-23,"•In this same chapter Paul talks of the mind blinded and the ""vail"" that is on their heart.
•Has the anti-metaphor structure: not ink, not stone
•I've added a second metaphor for the ""epistle"" (10/23/2003)
•Cross-reference Jeremiah 31:33. C17 divine Jeremy Taylor sees that passage as an OT discussion of conscience. See Kiefer, Frederick. Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 117.
","1: Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4: And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
(2 Corinthians 3:1-6)",""
"","""Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.""",3495,"",Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center,9098,2003-10-23 00:00:00 UTC,2009-09-14 19:33:57 UTC,,"•I've added a second metaphor for the ""epistle"" (10/23/2003). This is the entry.
•Cross-reference Jeremiah 31:33. C17 divine Jeremy Taylor sees that passage as an OT discussion of conscience. See Kiefer, Frederick. Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996. p. 117.
","1: Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4: And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
(2 Corinthians 3:1-6)",""