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Trivial. Latin trivialis, pertaining to cross -roads from trivium, tri
-- three and via, 'a road', a place where three roads meet or intersect, and
so associated with gossip and the commonplace. Hence trite.
Type. This word is derived from the Greek tupto, 'to strike' thence
tupos, 'a blow', 'a mark', 'a figure'. The word then bears the meaning of a
distinguishing mark, sign or characteristic, and so an allegorical or
symbolical representation, 'type and shadows'.
Sentence.
Latin sententia, 'a way of thinking, sentiment or opinion',
from sentio, 'to
feel', 'to think'. It means an expressed opinion, decision
or judgment, and
in grammar, a number of words forming a complete statement
and utterance of
thought.
Elaborate. Latin e -- ex -- 'out of', or fully, laboro, 'to labour',
'the honey that is elaborated by the bee'.
The most common use, however, indicates the act of improving, finishing with
great care, of developing or bringing to perfection. In an abbreviated form,
it becomes a 'laboratory'.
Essay. This word comes to us from the Latin exagium, 'a trial by
weight', and was originally the same as the
word assay, the trial of the qualities of a metal. Bacon differentiates
between a treatise which demands a deal of leisure, and brief notes, which he
called 'essays'.
Casual.
Latin casus, 'chance', something unfixed, absence of design.
Expression. Latin expressio, 'to squeeze out'. Drink is expressed as
from the grape. It then indicates the words or language in which a thought
is made known.
Depend. Latin, dependeo, 'to hang down' as 'long icicles depend'.
From a condition of suspense and contingency, the word takes on a sense of
reliability, 'to depend upon', something 'dependable'.
Introduction. Latin introduco, from duco, 'to lead', which gives us
the word duct, ductile, viaduct, educate, educe, etc. Anything inserted, led
in, brought to notice.
Figures. Latin figiera, from fingo, 'to shape', 'fashion', 'feign'. A
figure of speech comprehends everything that is figured by the imagination,
of which a type is a species.
Sentence after sentence using the ordinary language of everyday speech
will be found to contain figure after figure, illustrating most forcefully,
that even in this department, the hidden inward realities of thought must
stoop to the limitations of human speech, and of necessity must lose much in
the process. Christ is rightly called 'The Word'; He makes known the
invisible and incomprehensible by His condescension and voluntary self -
limitation. Had He not done so, though He spoke eternal truth, it would have
been unintelligible to man:
'We see by means of a mirror, in an enigma'.
Let us remind ourselves continually, when we study the Scriptures that
when the subject relates to God, to the realm of Spirit, and even to such