>Your question intrigued me, and in looking at the passage I noticed that,
>although the repetition is not quite so striking, the same occurs in the two
>subsequent verses:
>
>HDISTA OUN MALLON
> KAUCHSOMAI EN TAIS ASQENEIAIS MOU,
> INA EPISKHNWSHi EP EME hH DUNAMIS TOU CRISTOU.
> DIO EUDOKW EN ASQENEIAIS.....
>
>Here the centre of attention is the power of Christ! I am not sure that these
>'structural' analyses demonstrate anything other than the importance of
>repetition in rhetoric.
>
No- this could be very important. Thanks for pointing it out (as I did not
notice it because I was looking only at this one verse).
>Mike Beazley,
>Bushey, Hertfordshire, UK
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net