Thus is spoken by the figure of farre-set metalepsis.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
152 metalepsis, or the far-set.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
They say that, according to Jerome, this Tower of the flock was situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Bethlehem; that it is used here only by way of a metalepsis for Bethlehem, and that Bethlehem again designates the Davidic race; so that the passage agrees altogether with v.
"Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1"
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg