For example, Solomon is both a historical person, in particular, and a figure of the church, in general. The fifth mystic rule concerns biblical references to time: “Quantity of time in Scripture is frequently mystic by means of synecdoche or consecrated numbers, which are used in multiple ways and should be understood according to context.”39 Tyconius understands synecdoche in the usual sense: when a part represents the whole or when the whole represents a part. For example, in