Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romans. Show all posts

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Romans 11:33

Last month, I read a few verses from Romans 11 and noticed a small feature in verse 33:  "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways!"  There's polysyndeton (the repeated "and") in "the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God," and this indicates that abundance.

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Romans 8:38-39

I recently wrote a post about anaphora in LSB #724 "If God Himself Be for Me."  The verses of the hymn in which I noticed anaphora are drawn from Romans 8:38-39, which also exhibits this feature (although here, because they're all conjunctions, it's polysyndeton):  "38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."  As in the hymn, the repetition of "nor" provides a sense of assurance.