CONCISA LOCUTIO
CONCISA LOCUTIO
CONCISA LOCUTIO is a kind of Ellipsis, where one word is so put as that another must he understood: or if a sacred writer speaks so as that the Apodosis has to be supplied from the Protasis, OR the Protasis from the Apodosis: e.g.-Mat 4:5; Mat 4:8, -is an abbreviated expression for he takes Him with himself and leads Him.-Luk 4:1-2, , He was being led into the desert [and was in the desert] forty days. The Gnom. on the passage.-Ch. 16:26, [] .-Joh 1:23, , where we must supply the sentence thus, I am he of whom it was said, The voice of one crying – – Ch. 6:21, they wished to receive Him [and they did receive Him] – – Rom 1:8, . The Protasis is to be supplied, Ye have obtained faith: that faith I hear of: for your faith is everywhere spoken of.-Heb 10:22, having our hearts sprinkled – – and so being delivered from an evil conscience.-2Ti 2:26, , i.e. if at any time they may awaken [having shaken off sleep; and be delivered] out of the snare of the Devil. Comp. the Gnom. and BAUERS Philol. Th. P. p. 293. Sometimes an abbreviated phrase is to be supplied from the opposite, as in 2Ti 1:10.-Language in a manifold degree abbreviated is observed upon at Gal 3:8, note, Gnomon: .-Comp. below the Titles, SEMIDUPLEX ORATIO and SERMO PLENUS.