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Finding Chiasms

| November 12, 2020

Finding chiasms is not an exact science of simply finding repeated words in opposite sections. This makes it more confusing and people doubt it veracity thinking all the different chiastic structures show there actually is no chiastic structure. Chiasms involve word repetition, but is also an art. The first example listed below follows strictly the […]

Genesis 1:1-2:3 – Chiasm

| April 16, 2020

A – INTRODUCTION: God/Elohim creates, and the beginning is chaotic, or for the theme of the text, without form or purpose. B1 – Day 1 – Elohim separates (1:3-5)           1 – light           2 – dark           B2 – Day 2 – Elohim separates (1:6-8)           1 – water           2 – sky           […]

Genesis 1-2:3 – Chiasm

| April 16, 2020

A – INTRODUCTION 1:1-2: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. B – FORMING 1:3-3: Days 1-3 Day 1 – Light (1:3-5) Day 2 – Firmament (1:6-8) Day 3 – Land and Sea and Vegetation (1:9-13) B’ – FILLING 2:2: Day 4-6 Day 4 – Sun, Moon, Stars (1:14-19) Day 5 – […]

Genesis 1:1-2:3 – Chiasm

| April 16, 2020

A – EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH EMPTY SPACE (Genesis 1:1-2) Think of this as uncleared land. B – NEXT, COLLECTION OF MATERIALS (Genesis 1:3-13) Think of a construction sight with materials cluttering the landscape. B’ – FOLLOWED BY, USING THE MATERIALS TO CONTRUCT (Genesis 1:14-31) Think of the materials being hoisted from the ground and taking […]

Genesis 1:14-19 – Chiasm

| April 16, 2020

A – GOD SAID: 14) And God said, B- Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; C – PURPOSE AND TIME: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: D – PURPOSE AND PLACE: 15) and let them be for […]

Genesis 2:4 – Chiasm

| April 16, 2020

Anacrusis: These are the generations (i.e., records) A – of the heavens/shamayim B – and of the earth/erets C – when they were created/bara C’ – in the day that Yahweh God made/asah B’ – earth/erets A’ – and heaven/shamayim.

Hebrews 5:5-10 – Chiasm

| April 1, 2020

Hebrews 5:5-10 – ASV-PDH A – HIGH PRIEST 5) So Christ also did not glorify himself (heautou) to be made a high priest (archiereus), but he that spoke to him, “You are my Son (huios), This day have I begotten You: 6) as he said also in another place, You are a priest for ever […]

Hebrews 5:1-4 – Chiasm

| April 1, 2020

Hebrews 10:1-4 ASV-PDH A – IS TAKEN: 1) For every high priest (archiereus), taken (lambano) from among (ek) men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God (theos), B – OFFER FOR SINS: that he may offer (prosphero) both gifts and sacrifices for sins (amartia): C – CAN SYMPATHIZE: 2) who can (dunamai) bear […]

Hebrews 5:1-10 – Chiasm

| April 1, 2020

Hebrews 5:1-10 ASV-PDH A – HIGH PRIEST: 1) For every high priest (archiereus), taken (lambano) from among (ek) men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God (theos), B – OFFERED SACRIFICES: that he may offer (prosphero) both gifts and sacrifices for sins (amartia): 2) who can (dunamai) bear gently with the ignorant and […]

1 Timothy 3:16 – Tell the Old, Old Story

| February 17, 2020

There are many ways to, as the old gospel song says, “tell the old, old story”. Matthew begins with Jesus’s human DNA, while John begins with Jesus’s divine “DNA”. An yet both end up with complement narratives. Paul has a succinct description in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 – the death, burial, and resurrection, and later in […]