Luke 19 1 10 sermon writer9/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() An example is ‘gray was the morn, all things were gray” ( Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2004) or “an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith’s to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)” ( Encyclopedia Britannica 2007).Ĭhiasmi are quite common in Biblical poetry. A CHIASTIC STRUCTUREĪ chiasmus (plural “chiasmi”) is “a rhetorical construction in which the order of the words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse of the order in the first. However, the majority think that Second Isaiah started his work with chapter 40. “Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion” (35:10).īecause chapter 35 has something of the tone of Second Isaiah (chapters 40-66), some scholars suggest that it might be the work of Second Isaiah. “No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous beast go up on it” (35:9 note the contrast with 34:11-14). “A highway will be there” (35:8 note the contrast with 34:10). This is the Lord’s judgment on a sinful land.īut in chapter 35, the prophet/poet pictures a glad land, where “the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose” (35:1)-where people “shall see Yahweh’s glory” (35:2)-where the Lord “will come and “come with vengeance” to “save you” (35:4 note the contrast with 34:8)-where the blind will see and the deaf will hear and the lame will “leap like a deer” (35:5-6a)-where “waters will break out in the wilderness” (35:6) and “grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay” (35:7 note the contrast with 34:9, 13). “Thorns will come up in its palaces, …and it will be a habitation of jackals, … ostriches, …wild animals, …wolves, …and wild goats” (34:13-14). “The pelican and the porcupine will possess it” (34:11). “It will lie waste” and “no one shall pass through it” (34:10). ![]() Edom’s “streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur” (34:9). In that chapter, “Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood” and will effect “a great slaughter in the land of Edom” (34:6) and “a day of vengeance” (34:8). Chapter 35 presents a vivid contrast to chapter 34, where “Yahweh is enraged against all the nations” (34:2). ![]()
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