Now we must proceed to Translations, Similitudes and Examples.
Likewise Similitudes are borrow'd from Natural Philosophy; the Nature of a great many of which, it is necessary to keep in Memory.
They denied all vision of GOD in paradise by the corporeal eye, and rejected all comparisons or similitudes applied to GOD.
Or propound no similitudes or comparisons between him and his creatures.
These similitudes do we propound unto men: but none understand them, except the wise.
These similitudesdo we propose unto men, that they may consider.
Did I not say to you a little while ago that the universe swam in an ocean of similitudes and analogies?
The likeness between the language of Jesus and that found in the Similitudes may therefore prove no more than that the Daniel vision was more or less commonly interpreted of a personal Messiah in Jesus' day.
If the phrase suggested anything more to his hearers than the human frailty or the human dignity of him who bore it, it probably had a Messianic meaning like that found in the Similitudes of Enoch.
The vision in Daniel had great influence over the author of the so-called Similitudes of Enoch (Book of Enoch, chapters xxxvii.
When this beam was looked at normally through the selenite and Nicol, the ring-system, though not brilliant, was distinct.
But in this instance also, the line drawn to the Dom being very nearly perpendicular to the solar beams, the effects on this mountain were most striking.
Stopping one of the forks, I throw the other into strong vibration, and bring that other near the silent fork, but not into contact with it.
All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself, inasmuch as the perfections of all things are so many similitudes of the divine being; as appears from what is said above (Q.
Further, in the imaginative vision man cleaves to the similitudes of the things as to the things themselves.
Thus Paul, or any other person who sees God, by the very vision of the divine essence, can form in himself the similitudes of what is seen in the divine essence, which remained in Paul even when he had ceased to see the essence of God.
The created intellect of one who sees God is assimilated to what is seen in God, inasmuch as it is united to the Divine essence, in which the similitudes of all things pre-exist.
But to put forward anything by means of similitudes is to use metaphors.
Thus all names applied metaphorically to God, are applied to creatures primarily rather than to God, because when said of God they mean only similitudes to such creatures.
Now our passive intellect, in the present state of life, is such that it can be informed with similitudes abstracted from phantasms: and therefore it knows material things rather than immaterial substances.
Hence to know things thus by their likeness in the one who knows, is to know them in themselves or in their own nature; whereas to know them by their similitudes pre-existing in God, is to see them in God.
But to proceed by the aid of various similitudes and figures is proper to poetry, the least of all the sciences.
Therefore it must be said that certain similitudes of what he remembered, remained in his mind; and in the same way, when he actually saw the essence of God, he had certain similitudesor ideas of what he actually saw in it.
Therefore if God Himself is not seen by any similitude but by His own essence, neither are the things seen in Him seen by any similitudes or ideas.
Now in such conceptions and similitudes the human intellect of this lower world nourishes itself, till such time as it will be lawful to behold with purer eye the beauty of the divinity.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
These similitudes or relations are finely said by Lord Bacon to be 'the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world'; [Footnote: De Augment.
For even as a Bilboa blade, the more it is rubbed, the brighter and the sharper will it prove, so--But what need I waste my stock of similitudes in holding converse with myself?
For this Reason, the Similitudes in Heroick Poets, who endeavour rather to fill the Mind with great Conceptions, than to divert it with such as are new and surprizing, have seldom any thing in them that can be called Wit.
And when the chief priests and pharisees heard these similitudes they perceived that he spake of them.
And with many such similitudes he preached the word unto them, after as they might hear it.
It is then need that the similitudes of heavenly things, be purified with such things: but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices than are these.
For Christ is not entered into the holy places, that are made with hands, which are but similitudes of true things: but is entered into very heaven, for to appear now in the sight of God for us.
There is no reason to think of the Heavenly Son of Man of the Similitudes of Enoch and Fourth Ezra; that conception could hardly be present to the minds of His auditors.
By their happiness the similitudes emphasize and enforce the thought; and they do a higher service than this; for, being a breath from the inner life of genius, they blow power into the reader.
Such similitudes issuing from intellectual liveliness, there is through them no steeping of intellectual perception in emotion.
De mirabilibus scripturæ saieth, that holie Scripture doeth sometimes applie the verie names of thinges to the Images and similitudes of the same.
For this reason, the similitudes in heroic poets, who endeavour rather to fill the mind with great conceptions than to divert it with such as are new and surprising, have seldom anything in them that can be called wit.
These similitudes or relations are finely said by Lord Bacon to be "the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world" [Footnote: De Augment.
Not but I confess that similitudes and descriptions when drawn into an unreasonable length must needs nauseate the reader.
God setteth forth these similitudesto men that haply they may reflect.
These similitudes do we set forth to men: and none understand them except the wise.
And now in this Koran we have presented to man similitudes of every kind: but, at most things is man a caviller.
I know similitudes will not hold in all things; but we that believe are set free from the curse of the law by another man's obedience.
Similitudes must not be strained too far; but yet I have an answer for this objection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "similitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
