In my Book of Mormon class today we discussed something that I thought was very interesting: Christ's rhetoric while talking to the Nephites.
In detail we went back and forth between 3 Nephi 20 and 3 Nephi 21 to see how Christ used a certain style of rhetoric to help the Nephites understand the words he had spoken to them earlier in Chapter 16. He used almost word for word repetition to relate future events to events that had happened in their day. He used signs to be given, or something that had already come to pass and related it to the latter days.
I thought that it was really interesting to see how Christ masterfully interwove quoting Isaiah and Micah into these chapters and how effectively he was able to use repetition of situations and phrases to help the people understand future circumstances.
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That is very interesting and congrats on making it Rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteThat's super interesting! I've never thought of that
ReplyDeleteThat is cool. I will have to go study those chapters again.
ReplyDeleteWow, I had never noticed that before. Now I want to look for more examples of rhetoric in the scriptures.
ReplyDeleteIt always impresses me how Christ is able to convey his message to the exact audience he desires to address. His parables contained the perfect amount of camouflage to appear mad to those with hard hearts but still penetrate deep into the hearts of those who humbly sought Him.
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