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A) xui siruvaKav'/] rw vofiUy
B) XU/ XUVyUGUl z v 0s5),
C) xui y/\>uGXi/g to dsXrjfiUy
D) xui box/fiuZi/g ru d/utplpovruy
E) xarrj^ovf/jsvog lx tov vo/aou*
F) ‘TSKO/dug re gsuvtov odrjyov s/vu/ rvpXuVy
G) (pug TUV SV GXOTSIy
H) ‘7ruidevT7jv uppovuv ,
I) d/duffxuXov vriK/'uv,
K) ’lyovTU TYjv [jjCppuGiv Trig yvuGsug xui Trig ukr\6z/ug h tu vo/aw .
This is a direct Chiasmus of ten members, arranged in twice five clauses. It is shown universally, 1) what the Jew assumes to him- self : A, B, C, D, E : 2) what more he arrogates to himself in rela- tion to others : F, G, H, I, K. A and F specially correspond ; B and G ; C and H ; D and I ; in fine, E and K, which two at the same time denote the cause of the antecedent members. See a passage al- most the counterpart of this, ch. viii. 34, 38, 39 ; and Phil. iv. 8, 9. Comp, the Gnom. — See an inverted or retrograde Chiasmus of six members in the Gnom. on 1 Cor. xiii. 5.
IV. Often there is the greatest use in the employment of this figure, and it is never without some use, viz. in perceiving the orna- ment, in observing the force of the language ; in understanding the true and full sense ; in making clear the sound Exegesis ; in demon- strating the true and neat Analysis of the sacred text ; as is every- where shown in the Gnomon. See especially the Gnom. on Heb. i. 4, togovtu , by so much , and Bengel’s Evang. Fingerzeig, Tom. vi. p. 2, Vorrede von dem Nutzen der gnomonischen Auslegungsart. § 196, 197.
Chiasmus is altogether worthy of being observed diligently, and is such that we hope by the knowledge of it hermeneutical studies will be still further assisted. This hope truly can hardly be snatched from us by those who so despise the name and province of Chiasmus, both direct and inverted [both of which are taught by Bengel], as to deny that it has any weight in investigations of the text : nor even by those who endeavour to accuse of strange novelty the doctrine concerning this class of Figures. For that Chiasmus, whether in- verted or direct , was both acknowledged and approved of long ago by the learned, I could without difficulty make plain, by the testimonies of Bochart, Crasius, Flacius, Ickenius, Scapula, and others, were it not that I should thus have to transgress the brevity which I have thought desirable to impose on myself.
CLIMAX is that figure which joins what follows to what goes before by the same verb : or, which repeats the last, whether verb or member of the antecedent sentence, in the following sentence : e.g. — Bom. x. l-t, etc., vug ovv I'Z/xuXsgovtui s/g ov ovx in/Grivtiav ; nrug ds ‘T/ffTev/fovffni ov ovx ijxovffuv ; <itug dl uxovgovgi yupig xripvffGovrog ; Ttug
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