Mimesis; or, Description of Sayings
Mimesis; or, Description of Sayings
Mi-mee-sis, from the Greek (mi-mee-sis), imitation, from (mimeisthai), to imitate.
The name is used when the sayings (and sometimes motions and thoughts) of another are described or imitated by way of emphasis.
Hence called by the Latins IMITATIO, imitation.
See Exo 15:9 (see Asyndeton). Psa 137:7; Psa 144:12-15 (see Ellipsis). Isa 14:13-14; Isa 28:15. Hos 14:2-3. Eze 36:2. Mic 2:11; Mic 3:11.
So also 1Co 15:35, and Php 3:4-5.
Sometimes there is a use of a word which another is wont to use, and which is repeated so as delicately, but yet acutely, to direct him aright. As in 2Co 10:1; 2Co 10:10; and Gal 6:2.