CLIMAX
CLIMAX
CLIMAX is that figure which joins what follows to what goes before by the same verb: or, which repeats the last, whether verb or member of the antecedent sentence, in the following sentence: e.g.-Rom 10:14, etc., ; ; ; , ; There is a continued Anadiplosis, as GLASSIUS rightly observes, p. 1992. But still it is not properly termed ANADIPLOSIS, except when the last word of the preceding sentence is repeated in the beginning of the following sentence. But in a CLIMAX it is sufficient if one of the last words of the preceding sentence is repeated; e.g.-Act 23:6, , , a Pharisee, a son of the Pharisees [reading ]. See Gnom.
Also, in a more general signification, the term CLIMAX is employed in the Gnom. on Rom 1:23, and Eph 4:31. Thus it comes to pass, that under a figure of speech (diction) there lies concealed at the same time a. figure of the sense. Comp. the title GRADATION.