REGRESSION
REGRESSION
REGRESSION is the figure said to be used, when several things are either supposed or proposed [laid down as a supposition or a proposition], and then the writer goes back to explain or perfect the several particulars one by one, in an inverse order for the most part, or if it so please him, in an indiscriminate or unstudied order. So Paul, 1Co 15:13, commences a Regression, and enumerates what he has alleged, 1Co 15:3-11. Comp. Gnom. on Act 1:3, Act 3:16, and 2Pe 1:9.