{"id":743,"date":"2014-03-23T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/?page_id=743"},"modified":"2022-01-30T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T11:14:56","slug":"743-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/?page_id=743","title":{"rendered":"Anesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or, Abating.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Addition of Conclusion by way of lessening the Effect.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>An&#8217;-e-sis<\/em> (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: SBL Greek;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u1f04\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">), a loosening, relaxing, abating. The addition of a concluding sentence which diminishes the effect of what has been said. (This is the opposite of<\/span> <i><a href=\"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/?page_id=731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epitasis<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2 Kings 5:1\u2014 \u201c Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valour, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but he was a leper\u201d<\/span>:<i> (and therefore all his grandeur and importance counted for nothing).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From \u201cFigures Of Speech Used In The Bible\u201d by E. W. Bullinger,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Public Domain) page 463.\u00a0 Adapted for website compatibility.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> See original at link.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/cu31924029277047#page\/n517\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stream<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/figuresofspeechu00bull\/figuresofspeechu00bull.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">figuresofspeechinthebible.net \u00a9 2013-2022. All rights reserved.<br \/>\nMaterial in public domain may be freely copied and distributed without charge for educational, non-commercial purposes. This website, and those referenced by this site as sources of public domain material, are to be referenced. Material that is not in public domain, and indicated as such, is the property of its rightful owner(s), and\/or originator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or, Abating. Addition of Conclusion by way of lessening the Effect. An&#8217;-e-sis (\u1f04\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2), a loosening, relaxing, abating. The addition of a concluding sentence which diminishes the effect of what has been said. (This is the opposite of Epitasis) &nbsp; 2 Kings 5:1\u2014 \u201c Now Naaman, captain of the host of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-743","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions\/14188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figuresofspeechinthebible.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}