[B-Greek] Heb 11:40 together or not apart?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 16 21:39:28 EDT 2006


Aux contraire, Pierre.  There are a few of us old codgers who are acquainted with the term.
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Craig J <newsgroupstuff at gmail.com> wrote:
  > 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!

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Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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