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Chiasmus In The D&c


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Was ponderizing D&C 88:118 and it seems to me it is a chassis.

Faith

Seek

Words of wisdom

Words of wisdom

Seek

Faith

I'm not an expert in the form at all. Am I correct or wrong here?

I also wondered if there was a relation between teach, learning, and/or study.

Posted

Was ponderizing D&C 88:118 and it seems to me it is a chassis.

Faith

Seek

Words of wisdom

Words of wisdom

Seek

Faith

I'm not an expert in the form at all. Am I correct or wrong here?

I also wondered if there was a relation between teach, learning, and/or study.

So are you suggesting that the D&C is of ancient Hebraic origin?

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So are you suggesting that the D&C is of ancient Hebraic origin?

 

Well,  the author of those revelations has been around a long time...

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D&C 88:118 

 

A  And as all have not faith,

B            seek ye diligently

C                     and teach one another words of wisdom;

B'           yea, seek ye out of the best books

C'                    words of wisdomseek learning,

B''          even by study

A'  and also by faith.

 

The parallels are not as chiastically balanced as it seems by only using selected words.  In fact there are several ways in which various parallel arrangements could be presented, none of them very convincing as rhetorically balanced.

Edited by Robert F. Smith
Posted

One Eternal Round

2 For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.

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Hey Bomgeography, the current tally of topics in this forum is 7,476. I'd estimate that a good 1,500 of those are locked. At the rate you're going, you should be able to add a comment to each of the 5,000 open topics by Christmas. Best of luck!

Posted

Was ponderizing D&C 88:118 and it seems to me it is a chassis.

Faith

Seek

Words of wisdom

Words of wisdom

Seek

Faith

I'm not an expert in the form at all. Am I correct or wrong here?

I also wondered if there was a relation between teach, learning, and/or study.

For a car or a truck?

(Sorry -- I couldn't resist...)

Posted

When I competed in debate in college they taught us a simple way to organize just about any idea you want to get across

1 Tell them what you are going to tell them

2 Tell them

3 Tell them what you told them.

Chiasmus!

Who knew?

Posted

So are you suggesting that the D&C is of ancient Hebraic origin?

God originally wrote it on Moses first set of tablets but they got smashed and God did not want to revise so He just phoned it in with a close translation into English.

Posted

That's pretty cool

Do you know of anymore

Wow, you were really desperate to get full posting privileges huh? Couldn't you have gone with something less blatant like posting longer inane comments or starting a flame war?

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