Re: 2 Cor 12:7b

From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Mon May 18 1998 - 16:01:12 EDT


At 03:19 PM 5/18/98 -0400, you wrote:

>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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