Hebrews 11:1

Kevin L. Barney klbarney at yahoo.com
Fri May 7 14:46:43 EDT 1999


I view the structure of this verse as either a simple parallelism 
(following the RSV):

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
     the conviction of things not seen

or as an ABCBA chiasm as you (George) suggest at the beginning of your 
post.  (Or, as is often the case, both.)  That the C element (PRAGMATWN) 
goes with both A elements ties the structure up quite nicely.

What was not clear to me was why a chiastic structure would have any 
bearing at all on the translation (unless one were intentionally trying to 
preserve the structure in English, something that is often difficult if not 
impossible to do).

Kevin L. Barney
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
klbarney at yahoo.com




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