or, RETORT.
A turning the Words of a Speaker against himself.
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.An-tis’-tro-phee. Greek, ἀντιστροφή a turning about, from ἀντί (anti) against,
and στρέφω (strepho), to turn.
.The figure is so called because the words of a speaker are turned against himself in Retort. When the retort is violent, it is called BIÆON (Bi-ae’-on), Greek, Bίaion, forcible, violent, compulsory. Hence the Latin, VIOLENTUM, violent, and INVERSIO, inversion, a turning against.
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. Matt. 15:26, 27 —The woman of Canaan used this figure in her reply to Christ.
He had said “ It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.”
And she said, “Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table,” and thus turned His words against Himself.
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. 2 Cor. 11:22 —“ Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I.
Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.” See also under Epiphoza.
When the words thus turned against the speaker are an accusation,
then the figure is called Anticategoria, or Tu Quoque (page 966).
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. From “Figures Of Speech Used In The Bible” by E. W. Bullinger,
(Public Domain) page 965. Adapted for website compatibility.
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