RE: Chiasm in Matt 7:6?

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Mon Dec 08 1997 - 08:13:59 EST


At 08:05 AM 12/8/97 -0000, Peter Phillips wrote:
>Betz commentary on the Sermon on the Mount goes into some length about this
>chiasmus. Clearly it is dogs that do the rending and pigs that do the
>trampling. I don't feel there is any need to focus upon individual
>emphases within the structure - ABB'A' is good enough to prove the chiastic
>structure.

When you say "clearly it is dogs that do the rending", why is this clear? I
don't really know much about what pigs would do to people - are they
capable of ripping people up with their teeth? Is hRHGNUMI a verb which
could logically apply to dogs but not to pigs?

Jonathan
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