MIMESIS
MIMESIS
MIMESIS is, when we either refer to, or repeat, the words of another, which we either disapprove of, or desire to refute; for example,-1Co 15:32, , , .-2Co 10:1; 2Co 10:10, – , , -.-Php 3:4-5. See Gnom.-Col 2:21.
It is also MIMESIS, when we delicately (acutely) allude to a Word which another is wont to use, for the sake of directing him aright; as in the passage, 2Co 10:1, : with which comp. 2Co 10:10, .-Gal 6:2, – . See Gnom.-Comp. the Title ASTEISMUS.