> If this is indeed the structure- why is the 'satanic messenger' the middle
> term and thus the center of focus?
Dear Jim and fellow B-Greekers,
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.
CARIS hUMIN KAI EIRHNH,
Mike Beazley,
Bushey, Hertfordshire, UK
CILIARCOS