or, EXPANSION.
A lengthening out by copious Exposition of Facts
When Synathrœsmos is used of facts, etc., instead of single words or things, it is called DIEXODOS (Di-ex’-od-os), a way out through, from διά (dia), through; ἐξ (ex), out of; and ὁδός (hodos), a way.
The figure is employed when there is a copious statement or exposition of facts, not so much for the purpose of amplification, or of abbreviation, as of digression. Indeed, it is the opposite of Syntomia: which means a cutting off short, abridgment: whereas Diexodos is a lengthening out by a digression in order to expand.
See 2 Pet. 2:13, 15, 17. Jude 12, 13, 16, etc.
From “Figures Of Speech Used In The Bible” by E. W. Bullinger,
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Notes:
2Pet. 2:13, 15, 17
2:12 – But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2:13 – And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2:14 – Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 – Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2:16 – But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2:17 – These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
Jude 12, 13, 16
1:11 – Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
1:12 – These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
1:13 – Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
1:14 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
1:15 – To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
1:16 – These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
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