39. A HYPERBOLE is an exaggeration in which more is expressed than is intended to be understood. _Example._—“I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” John 21:25—meaning that a great number might be written. 40. IRONY is the utterance of pointed remarks, contrary to the actual thoughts of the speaker or writer—not to deceive, but to add force to the remark. _Examples._—“No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.” Job 12:2. “And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he _is_ a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.” 1 Kings 18:27. 41. THE INTERROGATION—while its legitimate use is to ask a question—is also used to affirm or deny with great emphasis. Affirmative interrogations usually have _no_ or _not_ in connection with the verb. _Example._—“Is _not_ God in the height of the heavens?” Job 22:12. _Examples of a negative._—“Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once?” Isa. 66:8. “Can the rush grow up without mire?” Job 8:11. 42. EXCLAMATIONS are digressions from the order of a discourse or writing, to give expression to the emotions of the speaker, or writer. _Example._—“O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest!” Psa. 55:6. 43. FABLES are fictions—additions to the word of GOD. All false theories and doctrines supposed to be based on the Bible, all interpretations of Scripture which do violence to the laws of language and falsify their meaning, and all opinions which are the result of mere traditions and doctrines of men, are to be classed as fables. Mark 7:8-13; 1 Pet. 1:18; 1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; Tit. 1:14. 44. SYNCHRONOUS SCRIPTURES are the several passages which have reference to any one and the same event. Each portion of Scripture respecting any subject, must be considered in connection with all the Scriptures that refer to the same subject.—_Compare_, for example, Dan. 2:34, 35, 44; 7:18, 27; Matt. 6:10; 13:37-43; 35:34; 1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 11:15-18. EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Title of the Book. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and sending, he signified _them_ through his angel to his servant John: who testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, and whatever he saw.”—Rev. 1:1, 2.—_Prof. Whiting’s Translation._ “The very title of John’s predictions, Apocalypse, implies the _unveiling_ or ‘_revelation_’ of the mystic and hidden sense of the prophetic oracles, previously uttered by his inspired predecessors.”—PROF. BUSH. “The Αποκαλυψις, from which we have our word Apocalypse, signifies, literally, a _revelation_, or _discovery_, of what was _concealed_, or _hidden_.”—DR. CLARKE.