...Psalm. Q. What is Irony? A. Irony, dissembling with an air, Means otherwise than words declare. Example: "Cry aloud; for he is a God: either he is talking or he, is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or jip.radr en tare he sleepeth, and must be awakened." I Kings sviii. 27. Q. What is a Climax? A. A Climax,...

...made. These antic gesticulations are of as little avail. Upon this, Elijah tauntingly exclaims ; " Cry aloud, for he is a God : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked !" Roused by the reproachful sneer, they repeat their vociferations;...

...it. The prophet Elijah, when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said : Cry aloud, for he is a god...talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventare he slcepeth, and must be awaked." Exclamations and Irony are sometimes united: as in Cicero's...

...even until noon, saying, O Baal hear us, — but there was no voice nor any that answered. And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is...either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, — or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakened. But there was neither voice, or...

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...it. The ""ophet Elijah, when he challenged the priests of Baal to prove the truth of their deity, " mocked them, and said : Cry, . aloud for he is a god ; either he is talking, or be is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked." Exclamations...

...with the exulting heathen, from the scripture. Nor did they in vain adopt Elijah's argument, when "he mocked them and said, cry aloud, for he is a god; either he was talking, or he was pursuing, or he wan on a journey, or peradventure, he was asleep" when his temple...

...themselves. When the priests of Baai sacrificed and prayed to him for miraculous evidence of his divinity, " Elijah mocked them, and Said, cry aloud, for he is...journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." Isaiah, to expose the superstition of the Heathen, describes their idols in a ludicrous manlier. Paul,...

...their temples : the divinity was to be worshiped in silence. Thus are we to understand Elijah — ' And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,...either he is talking, or he is pursuing; or he is on a journey; or, pi-nicl venture, he sleepeth, and must be awaked."' This superstitious notion of...

...in doing it with a great noise, because it may be with him as Elijah told the prophets of Baal : " For he is a God ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a joufney, or peradventure h« sleepeth, and must be awaked."* 3d. The freewillers contend, that the...