[B-Greek] Heb 11:40 together or not apart?
Craig J
newsgroupstuff at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 10:49:00 EDT 2006
> If it's any help, I think that in the Greek
> phrase MH CWRIS hHMWN we have a standard
> rhetorical ploy -- so standard that
> it has a name ("litotes") designating it:
> emphasizing a positive point by
> negating the negative point.
>
> LITOTES as a rhetorical device is "no less
> common" in English than it is in Greek, if
> you catch my meaning.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
Carl, I did not know that it is called a litotes. You have a better
understanding of grammatical terms so that others would not know that it is
called a litotes apart from you. (If you catch my meaning :-)
Thanks!
--
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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