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).
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