Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation Parenthetic Addition by Way of Exclamation

Cat´-a-plok´-ee (καταπλοκή), from κατά (kata), down, and πλοκή (plokee), a twining or plaiting . The figure is so called because the short sentence so interposed is intertwined with another. This name is given to a parenthesis when it takes the form of a sudden exclamation.

Ezekiel 1:16-24. -“And it came to pass after all thy wickedness

(woe, woe unto thee! saith Adonai-Jehovah) That thou hast also built unto thee,” etc.

Romans 1:9-3. -This is a kind of Cataploce as well as Epitrechon (see page 428), and Euche .


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