EPICRISIS
EPICRISIS
EPICRISIS is an enunciation added to a sentence or speech, whereby the thing which is in hand may be more clearly understood. It is for the most part derived from the causes, the place, the occasions, the ends, the effects, the impediments, of things, actions, and speeches.-The Gnom. on Joh 1:24 : e.g.-Joh 5:39-40, -, [there is added the Epicrisis, which approves of the search and hope (of finding eternal life in them) on the part of the Jews] [there follows the second Epicrisis, which shows their defect,] , .-Ch. 12:37, it may in this place be expressed by the ordinary expression, A remark of the Evangelist.