--- Knox Duncan <KnoxDuncan@...> wrote:
> Good ones, Fr. Scott.  I'm going to repeat them when
> a suitable occasion arises!   Often in a
contradiction, we find...truth
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Fr. Duncan+

Sadly I can't recall the author who decades ago opened
my eyes to the many examples of "contradiction. . .
.truth" in the sayings of Jesus, the Proverbs, and
other OT writings.  At this moment, my mind won't
bring back the word that was used then to describe
parallel sayings that were opposed, revealing a truth
between the two.

Today, the word is chiasmus.  A word too new to have a
referent in a thesaurus. 
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Miriam Webster gives this definition.
Main Entry: chi·as·mus 
Pronunciation: kI-'az-m&s, kE-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek chiasmos, from
chiazein to mark with a chi
Date: 1871 : an inverted relationship between the
syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in
Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go) 

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By whatver name, this ancient method of teaching used
by the author of Proverbs works better for me than the
logic of the schoolmen.

Charles+         

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