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To: DLL who wrote (25421)	5/12/1999 6:11:00 AM
From: Don Martini	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Thank you for your gracious post, DLL! If I said "I'm bringing my wife, my beloved and the mother of my children." would you expect three women? The use of repetition for emphasis and elaboration is not uncommon in English, but used much more often in Hebrew. The scriptures are full of parallel repetitive idiom, it's a main poetic form: I will restore thy judges as at the first / and thy counselors as at the beginning He will judge between the nations / and decide concerning many peoples Isa 1&2 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom / And the man that getteth understanding For gaining it is better than silver / the profit thereof than fine gold Pr 3 Deliver them that are carried away unto death / And those that are ready to be slain Prov 24:11 [My wife's theme scripture for Mission Possible] Come near ye nations to hear / and hearken ye peoples Let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof / The world and all the things that come for from it Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations / wrath against all their hosts He hath utterly destroyed them / he hath delivered them to the slaughter I will pour out my Spirit upon thy seed / and my blessing upon thy offspring They shall spring up among the grass / as willows by the watercourses one shall say I am Jehovah's / another shall call himself by the name of Jacob Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel / and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts Isa 44 This verse says by parallel emphatic elaborative repetition that Jehovah of Hosts is both King and Redeemer. In vs 8 he's called the Rock. DLL. In light of your love of scripture I'll be glad to continue by PM if you prefer. Don