EPEXEGESIS, orEXERGASIA, is an explanation expressed, in the very context of the same sentence or speech, showing what signification the sacred writer assigned to any word, or what notion is to be attached to his own words according to his own mind : for instance — Mark vii. 2, x otvaTg yjpsi<, tout sgtiv dvinroig. — 1 Cor. iv. 9, rti %(jG[j,u) (viz.) xa/ dyytXoig xa/ avOpdnoig.
EPICRISIS is an enunciation added to a sentence or speech, whereby the thing which is in hand may be more clearly under- stood. It is for the most part derived “ from the causes, the place, the occasions, the ends, the effects, the impediments, of things, actions, and speeches.” — The Gnom. on John i. 24 : e.g. — John v. 39, 40, ’Epeware rag ypu<pdg — s^s/v, [there is added the Epicrisis , which approves of the u search” and hope (of finding eternal life in them) on the part of the Jews] xa/' sxzTvai e/Giv a / /xaprvpovGai rrspi f/aoD* [there follows the second Epicrisis , which shows their defect,] xa l ov QzXzrz sXd sTv npog /Ag, iva syyjrs. — Ch. xii. 37, rocaZra ds aZroZ
Grj/xzTa ‘TrsftoirjHorog z^poG&zv avruv ovx etftGrsvov tig avrov’ it may in this place be expressed by the ordinary expression, A remark of ilie Evangelist.
EPIPHONEMA is an exclamation subjoined after a narrative or demonstration of a weighty matter: as — Matt. xi. 15, 6 tyuv wra axous/i', dxousrw ; Rev. ii. 7, 11, 17, etc. — Rom. xi. 33, Tn fiddog gtXovtov xai cocpiag xa t yvo uGscug ©soD. — See Gnom. on Rom. i. 15, note, ouru.
EPITASIS is, when to a word or enunciation already set forth, there is added in the following enunciations, or in the continuation of the discussion, some emphatic increase, or any sort of explana- tion : e.g. — Mark x. 43, sgtcu didxovog Z/auv ; ver. 44, sgtcu rrdvruv doZXog. The sense is here again, sGrai doZXog vftciv, but there is added the Epitasis , viz. <xdvrm. — Acts vii. 5, xa i oux sdcjxsv avrfi xXripovofjjiuv iv aurjj — there is added the Epitasis , /3^aa srodog. — 2
Cor. iii. 5, 6, i] ixavori jg ti/ujuv ix roZ © sou ; there is added the Epitasis , og xa/ ixdvuGsv i )/xdg diuxovovg. At times a statement or assertion is put twice ; first simply, afterwards with Epitasis , as in John xiii. 34, iva dyandre dXXvjXoZg — iva xa/' Z,as7g ayacrarg a XXijXovg. See Gliom. on this passage.
EPITHERAPIA is, if we add universally (or, in general terms) to what we have said a declaration (explanation) of our feeling towards our readers or hearers ; or if we subjoin some mitigation or softening qualification to those things, whereby modesty, shame (respectful feeling), and gentleness might seem to be injured : as — Phil. iv. 10, e<p <p xa/ sppovzTrt, 7}xatp£?Gt)s de. — See Gnom. Comp, the Title Protherapia.