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2. AN ALLEGORY may be regarded as a metaphor continued; or it is several
metaphors so connected together in sense, as frequently to form a kind
of parable or fable. It differs from a single metaphor, in the same
manner that a cluster on the vine differs from a single grape.
The following is a fine example of an allegory, taken from the 60th
psalm; wherein the people of Israel are represented under the image of a
vine. "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it; and didst cause
it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered
with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly
cedars. She sent out her boughs into the sea, and her branches into the
river."
3. A SIMILE or COMPARISON is when the resemblance between two objects,
whether real or imaginary, is expressed in form.
Thus, we use a simile, when we say, "The actions of princes are like
those great rivers, the course of which every one beholds, but their
springs have been seen by few." "As the mountains are round about
Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people.
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