HYSTERON
HYSTERON
HYSTERON PROTERON is a species of Hyperbaton, when the one of two members is put in the former place, which seemed to require being put in the latter place. In the New Testament hardly, and scarcely even hardly, is there to be found a genuine Hysteron Proteron, inasmuch as Sacred Scripture (1) either maintains the order of the things in opposition to the order of time,-(2) or else uses an inverted Chiasmus, which has in it nothing of the nature of a blemish, nay, even somewhat of elegance, as we have demonstrated above: e.g.-(1.) Php 3:19, -The mention of the end, which, one might think, ought to have been put in the last place, is put before the other things, in order that these latter may be read with the greater horror.-Gnom. on the passage. (2.) Heb 3:8, etc., is not a Hysteron Proteron, as JUNIUS calls it, but an inverted Chiasmus. See Gnom.-Rom 13:9, Paul recounting the commandments in a somewhat free order, places the sixth after the seventh. Comp. Bauers Philol. Thucyd. Paull. Ch. 13:3, p. 280, etc.