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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 16 21:50:27 EDT 2006


http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/M/meiosis.htm
   
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Craig J <newsgroupstuff at gmail.com> wrote:
  > > 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 :-)
> 
> No, I really didn't invent it:

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you invented it! Just that *I* didn't know
such a rhetorical device was called that before. I just made a true sentence
following a similar form to Heb 11:39-40. The question is, whether my
sentence was also using a litotes or not..? (And following from that, the
question of whether Heb 11:40 *definitely* is a litotes or not..?)

It kind of loses effect when one has to explain subtle points :-(

I am not unappreciative of what you do on this list! :-)
--
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
Blog Experiment: http://bloggledegook.blogspot.com/

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