A chiasm is a literary structure where vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Luke 1:5-7 the center and climax is that Zacharias and Elizabeth “were both righteous in the sight of God” and walked “blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord” (Luke 1:6).
The Chiasm of Luke 1:5-7
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Mike Rusten grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. God drew him to himself at a Billy Graham crusade when Mike was a junior high boy, and life was never to be the same. He graduated from Princeton University where he was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. Read More ...
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