Rev 20:1-15 KJV –
1 And‡ I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
2 And‡ he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him* a thousand years,
(Ellipsis* 70; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
3 And‡ cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
4 And‡ I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls* of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
(Synecdoche* 640; Hendiadys 672; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And‡ when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
8 And‡ shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea.
(Parœmia 758; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
9 And‡ they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
(Polysyndeton 237; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
10 And‡ the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
11 And‡ I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
(Polysyndeton 237; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
12 And‡ I saw the dead, small and great*, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
(Polysyndeton‡ 237; Syntheton*; Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
13 And‡ the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
14 And‡ death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
15 And‡ whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
(Polysyndeton: (And‡) context coordination)
Italicized words in [brackets] were added by the King James Version translators.
Blue Letter Bible. “Revelation of Jesus Christ 20 – (KJV – King James Version).”
Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2017. 14 Aug 2017.
< http://www.blbclassic.org/Bible.cfm?b=Rev&c=20&t=KJV >
See also The Companion Bible Appendix 3,
“Genesis Finds Its Complement In The Apocalypse”, by E. W. Bullinger.
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Thanks also to E. W. Bullinger for his work
“Figures Of Speech Used In The Bible”, and thanks to you for taking the time here.
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Note: What I have noticed in studying the figure Polysyndeton is that there are three basic types of this figure. Polysyndeton is the use of (too) many conjunctions. The first type is when it is used to bind individual members of a group together, so as not to loose, and thereby lose, any from the group. This form can be seen in Rev. 13:7 as “….. kindreds, and tongues, and nations”.
The second type is used in context coordination, as can be seen in this chapter with the mark (‡) that I added. Here it is used almost as the period at the end of a sentence, only that it does not end a sentence, but rather begins one, as it does throughout much of this book. A period can not only end a sentence, it is used also to end paragraphs and entire written works. The punctuation mark we call a period did exist during the Koine Greek time, but was only used occasionally in theater.ref.
The use of a conjunction at the beginning of a sentence not only ends the previous sentence, but it continues the context, thereby accomplishing two jobs.
Polysyndeton in context coordination presents a narrative style.
The third type is in the use of correlative conjunctions, which we can examine later.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesha_Stele
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