benedictio

Figure Name benedictio
Source Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("benedictio; or, blessing")
Earliest Source None
Synonyms benediction, blessing, beatitude
Etymology Ben'-e-dic'-ti-o. English, benediction: and it means both "the act of blessing," and the "blessing" itself
Type Trope
Linguistic Domain Semantic
Definition

1. A blessing, or the act of blessing. (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. An Expression of Feeling by Way of Benediction or Blessing... The latter is called a beatitude or blessing. A large field of study is here opened out before us. It is unnecessary for us to exhaust it. The student will find much spoil in searching out and classifying the various blessing and beatitudes which come under this figure.

Example

1. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. —Genesis 1:28 (Silva Rhetoricae)

2. See, for examples, Deut. 28:3-6. Ecc. 10:17. Isa. 30:18. Eph. 1:3.
Then they may be considered collectively.
The three blessing at the creation. Gen. 1:22, 28; 2:3.
The blessings in the book of Psalms (1:1; 2:12; 32:1, 2; 33:12; 34:8 (9); 40:4 (5); 41:1 (2); 65:4 (5); 84:4, 5, 12 (5, 6, 13); 89:15 (16); 94:12; 106:3; 112:1; 119:1, 2; 127:5; 128:1 (2); 137:8, 9; 144:14, 15; 146:5).
The seven blessings in the Apocalypse. Rev. 1:3; 14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7, 14. (Bullinger, 898)

Kind Of Identity
Part Of
Related Figures eulogia, antisagoge
Notes
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
Confidence Unconfident
Editorial Notes
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