From: Harold R. Holmyard III (hholmyard@ont.com)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 15:03:14 EST
Dear Steve,
You wonder:
>When a writer poses an alternative in the form of
>a rhetorical question, what is the rhetorical function and/or force of such
>a construction?
My sense, at least here in Rom 3:29, is that Paul widens the screen of the
reader's thought to some larger perspective. He battles a false notion by
showing how it fails to account for more encompassing realities.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
Dallas, TX
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